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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st December 2016

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st December 2016. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Revived with oxygen after backing first horse in wet conditions
AAcross 10: Marketplace for anyone gambling on races and using tips
AAcross 11: Tried syncopated beat
AAcross 12: Shaw's flower girl told Eliot to change
AAcross 13: North Americans' casual California hideaways reportedCANUCKS
AAcross 14: Having no fun from creativity in one's lifetime
AAcross 17: Each-way stake
AAcross 19: Wins clearly initially, if at length criticises umpire's call
AAcross 20: Makes smooth pieces for pianist drawn from plain inspirations
AAcross 21: Backed favourite vainly, lacking enthusiasm
AAcross 22: Old King Boatman seen in pseudomorphs
AAcross 24: See 15INTHEBUSH
AAcross 26: Time being the end of season formerly
AAcross 28: Allow time to take on outsiders in race
AAcross 29: Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet
DDown 1: Condone taking a gamble
DDown 2: Fix odds in Derby fraud — no trial?
DDown 3: Improved view, adapting plane details (just the wings) with CAD
DDown 4: See 15HANDIS
DDown 5: Backs the last runners, not the first
DDown 6: Takes a risk, being seen in a dress
DDown 7: See 15WORTHTWO
DDown 8: How a dark horse doesn’t appear to be at stake
DDown 13: Initial cutting replacing tip, to dead-head
DDown 15: Clue: the pastern’s broken, but this horse won with certainty; it's better than gamblingABIRDINTHE
DDown 16: Features in rows, not a single one
DDown 18: They help gamblers and prostitutes missing out having a flutter
DDown 19: Old IT device in BASIC wordplay to check
DDown 22: Model here reveals a bit of leg — heavenly!ONHIGH
DDown 23: Boatman could be one better?
DDown 24: "Gosh!" = "ok"ISAY
DDown 25: Vessel's crew (émigrés in part, returning)
DDown 27: Report on drugs used for relief
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