The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 14th May 2004

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 14th May 2004. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Alert Tim about the payment
AAcross 5:	Having estates secured
AAcross 9:	Communicate back to front
AAcross 10:	He may provide silks for a jockey
AAcross 11:	Less than nothing, for example, found in an oyster
AAcross 12:	Like a bird's behind
AAcross 14:	Work up in track apparatus used by gymnasts
AAcross 18:	Sailor's explanation for acquittal
AAcross 22:	Faction heard to make a noise
AAcross 23:	Ignore the rebate
AAcross 24:	Writer needs help to travel outside	PLAIDY
AAcross 25:	Have influence over title I am sorting
AAcross 26:	Total compound interest? No way!
AAcross 27:	Share in concern
DDown 1:	New soldier having little money
DDown 2:	Run! It's no time for women's libbers!
DDown 3:	Agreement to have a go about decay
DDown 4:	State in which animal always took food
DDown 6:	One kind of horror
DDown 7:	Old and worn-out pride etc
DDown 8:	Driven mad by greed and trouble
DDown 13:	A task I am set
DDown 15:	Claim pen broken by steward
DDown 16:	He is hoping to upset Paris worker
DDown 17:	Struggle with fish
DDown 19:	Writer in jail steals crib easily
DDown 20:	Turn box round for clergyman
DDown 21:	The way trees bend to start