The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 6th October 2014

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 6th October 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Armadillo, for example, has plate all round
AAcross 4:	Hesitated to have father taken advantage of
AAcross 9:	In truth, she goes to the city
AAcross 10:	The acquisition of a favourable reputation
AAcross 11:	Not the first time
AAcross 12:	One who talks one round to composing some music
AAcross 13:	Space explorer's study?
AAcross 15:	Dole out food, say?
AAcross 16:	Small child to go out of control
AAcross 17:	Yet it might be the product of an active imagination	IDLEFANCY
AAcross 21:	Blue-pencil our costs — being out of order
AAcross 22:	First of plants underdeveloped, cut back
AAcross 24:	Turkish baths, which flout union regulations?
AAcross 25:	Shut up firm having little work
AAcross 25:	Shut up firm having little work
AAcross 26:	Journalist taken aback by news of the country
AAcross 27:	Notice gap coming in the church calendar
DDown 1:	Eternal theme of the beautician?
DDown 2:	State aid distributed by the Home Office
DDown 3:	Leave a musical group — no making a comeback
DDown 5:	Beg for a retrial?
DDown 6:	Flattery works with EastEnders, say
DDown 7:	Refuse to go through all the cases
DDown 8:	Housing allowance
DDown 14:	Restore control, say
DDown 16:	Lax hands act sycophantically on board
DDown 18:	Photographed out of doors?
DDown 19:	Smoked by the great man in bed
DDown 20:	Figurehead at unusually close quarters to the crew
DDown 23:	Relation who takes the pledge