The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 13th May 2015

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 13th May 2015. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Increase open cargo boat's atmospheric illumination?
AAcross 10:	Magnify one's end many times over
AAcross 11:	Half-square key with a movement in need of oiling
AAcross 12:	Tramp's boxing arena rebuilt with tin — you can't get lower than that	MARIANA
AAcross 13:	Speak highly of no power boost
AAcross 14:	Histrionics forced earldom into a reduced state
AAcross 16:	Meeting place of California's Plates Movement
AAcross 19:	County Kerry: so lax about greeting
AAcross 21:	Nosey creature's salt-covered "eye"
AAcross 22:	They're thumping mad?
AAcross 23:	A Loire variation on a flowering shrub
AAcross 24:	Subject to image being reduced
AAcross 25:	Where to get tanked up with pro at end of the play area?
DDown 1:	Greek character, awfully gross — heavens, it's a man of music!
DDown 2:	"I live with soul in torment" misconception
DDown 3:	Start off a captain of industry, related on the male side
DDown 4:	Brace of salmon's source? British river
DDown 5:	Announce Portugal's heaving with ’em
DDown 6:	Understand "fiord" is rendered as "ditch"
DDown 7:	Greek island with a cat that's externally weightless
DDown 8:	Feel a bit sorry for trifle
DDown 14:	Manages to get issue to a union?	MARRIESOFF
DDown 15:	Persistent sensation of behind getting smack
DDown 17:	Beginning to sound like Scottish lacking in brains?
DDown 18:	Superior cleavage that could stun you
DDown 20:	They usually precede deliveries of cultivated Prunus	RUNUPS
DDown 21:	See 12
DDown 22:	See 8
DDown 23:	Former Hollywood studio turned up a lady's fingers