The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 12th June 2002 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 12th June 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: I call the regulator: infer I'm badly placedFISHOUTOFWATERAAcross 8: What may need breaking - no point - I take too many cuppasTHEICAAcross 9: This 1 across can still see - a clever postscriptANABLEPSAAcross 11: Breaking of rules of grammar by editor in person?OURSELFAAcross 12: Home bird? I t-take what's coming to meINHERITAAcross 13: Mog backing it? Not sayingTACITAAcross 15: Church line about pollution can't go wrongCERTAINTYAAcross 17: I take 1 across (solution found in a get-together)MERGANSERAAcross 20: I take 1 across (to sound of disapproval by fool)BOOBYAAcross 21: Ear's in, ear out - lovely stuff!EROTICAAAcross 23: What Brummel called the Prince, with dire resultsFATALLYAAcross 25: Emperor with a Gallic turn, possiblyCALIGULAAAcross 26: Beast took a pill - no charge!OKAPIAAcross 27: Block to let characters from Butlin's get Mondays offSTUMBLINGSTONEDDown 1: Set off with permit to control outburstsFITSOFTEMPERDDown 2: Cut the end off 1 across to take 1 acrossSHEARDDown 3: Gold box used by painters and musiciansORCHESTRADDown 4: Deal with cars on roadTRAFFICDDown 5: TV counsellor could be fairer about Zen leaderFRAZIERDDown 6: Everyone's expression is divineALLAHDDown 7: Telepathy time? Not when it's twisting the tongueESPERANTODDown 10: Two years' bedsits may evoke "Don't leave me" from carol singerSTAYBYMYSIDEDDown 14: I take 1 across as part of flower or insectCORMORANTDDown 16: I take 1 across at sea in the Antarctic, under a poundALBATROSSDDown 18: I take 1 across: beast who does so is about to pull upSEA GULLDDown 18: I take 1 across: beast who does so is about to pull upSEAGULLDDown 19: Hold back the chorusREFRAINDDown 22: How to talk about instincts? Me? Coming up!IDIOMDDown 24: Welsh church organ's first step recordedLLANO