The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 22nd May 2002

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 22nd May 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Glasses raised at L'Opera
AAcross 10:	Wood is damaged by one
AAcross 11:	The batsman's occupation
AAcross 12:	Man in a mother country (loosely speaking)
AAcross 13:	They curl and lift cubes
AAcross 14:	Irish group playing Bach roles
AAcross 16:	Les canadiens, for example	FRENCHCANADIANS
AAcross 19:	Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor
AAcross 21:	Run downhill
AAcross 22:	Where a houseman rules?
AAcross 23:	Fought as law bred free-for-all
AAcross 24:	Subject is: "The Discontented Mule"
AAcross 25:	Investment specialist?
DDown 1:	They charge others, even pets
DDown 2:	I left command to the artillery
DDown 3:	A bread-like fruit
DDown 4:	Some American depositors backed this inventor
DDown 5:	Galloping cancer seen in second birth
DDown 6:	Clergyman Paul, an American hero going to North Dakota
DDown 7:	Spotted in play, its effect is disastrous
DDown 8:	It's a wild year for a cat?
DDown 14:	Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!
DDown 15:	They keep the hose straight
DDown 17:	The line of those in the playground
DDown 18:	Positive kind of zero? On the contrary!
DDown 20:	Landing strip
DDown 21:	A lake not easily ruffled
DDown 22:	Christopher Marlowe's last predator
DDown 23:	Crazy flutters