The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 3rd May 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd May 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Western man after start of hockey game
AAcross 4:	A writer, having died, gets attributed
AAcross 9:	Small cleansing plant
AAcross 10:	Terminal battle?
AAcross 11:	Wild flower bard complained about
AAcross 13:	Corporal, say, interrupting game on deck is a twit
AAcross 14:	Fruit for the audience? That's not fair
AAcross 16:	Characters from "A Winter's Tale" formerly
AAcross 18:	Fool fools American birds
AAcross 21:	Composer regards a wilder composer?
AAcross 23:	Regular soldiers meeting hot shot do get cross
AAcross 24:	Roman leader's watching out for Roman poet
AAcross 25:	Playing darts? Yes, in leisure time	RESTDAYS
AAcross 26:	Timber provided by household god as building material
DDown 1:	Part of a lock, part with a spring
DDown 2:	Mawkish poem by Tennyson about love
DDown 3:	After a capital party, on with the dance!
DDown 5:	How a leading actor came over as a Shakespearean lover?	STARCROSSED
DDown 6:	French town house vacated in the Borders
DDown 7:	Trendy Greek dramatist before running to seed
DDown 8:	Is Orlando resort for dead things?
DDown 12:	Former scheme a politician is clarifying
DDown 13:	Physicist having his Nobel presentation? Right!
DDown 15:	Isles in the Channel Islands left outlying isles out?	SCILLIES
DDown 17:	Cloud seen by composer over centre of Austria
DDown 19:	Good news for supporter after a quarter to five?
DDown 20:	Film-maker on the outskirts of Dunsinane climbing a lot of trees	EDWOOD
DDown 22:	Confused impression created by publisher's recommendation, mostly