The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 27th September 2022

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 27th September 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Retirement habit: pays off to carry stick
AAcross 5:	Contact the Guardian about job centre that's unfeeling
AAcross 9:	Possibly keen to do this vocally?
AAcross 10:	Unscrupulous opportunist immersing copper-backed tin in drink
AAcross 11:	Bill & Co limp off to quiet do
AAcross 12:	Submerge head and keep under flat-bottomed boat
AAcross 14:	Inspector May's false subconscious memory
AAcross 18:	One means of improving athletic performance: live with military officer somewhere beyond Mars!
AAcross 21:	Play card with real finesse
AAcross 22:	Male only wants car that's big of its kind and aggressive-looking
AAcross 25:	Only females love males to wear father's spectacles
AAcross 26:	Trainee state police officer cut short
AAcross 27:	Ends let out and pressed close
AAcross 28:	Unexpectedly present a twisty firework
DDown 1:	Ornamental garden plant — holding one, state politicians squeal
DDown 2:	Jack (lightweight) gets a shock
DDown 3:	Drive home, back into awful torment in part of Paris
DDown 4:	Forecaster lives up near far end of Hull
DDown 5:	Tip: start to search (search methodically) for a kind of cap
DDown 6:	See 21
DDown 7:	Past players rather dull?
DDown 8:	Cover up of certain features of Cromwell's reversal at Derby?
DDown 8:	Cover up of certain features of Cromwell's reversal at Derby?
DDown 13:	Come to a conclusion about Uncle Dicky, social media promoter
DDown 15:	In-depth disheartened author's novel means of putting characters on paper
DDown 16:	Recoil at political bias employed by one who serves?
DDown 17:	Most attractive types, those basking on the beach, lapping up temperature
DDown 19:	Set about catching wild dog that's hard going to put away
DDown 20:	A month with English theatre's top group
DDown 23:	See 1
DDown 24:	Pass round women's head covering