The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 16th April 2004 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 16th April 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Go against the grain of American breakfasts?BUCKWHEATAAcross 6: See 3THATAAcross 10: Can't Alfred make up his mind?NOYESAAcross 11: Means of reproduction to do with marriage? Pointless, weirdRADIOGRAMAAcross 12: Bad part of summer at its height in American cityNAUGHTYAAcross 13: Benedictine question with place about right?LIQUEURAAcross 14: See 3THOUSANDSHIPSAAcross 17: Tire out, then handle gently - last of the cycleEXHAUSTSTROKEAAcross 21: Mine (if I hear you have left) is patheticPITIFULAAcross 22: Backing bread roll without drink not right: there's no fuel in itPEDICABAAcross 24: See 3LAUNCHEDAAAcross 25: The canon should be shotROUNDAAcross 26: I shouldn't have said that nothing worksOOPSAAcross 27: Blavatsky's boy and girl?THEOSOPHYDDown 1: Money means entanglement in evilBANK NOTEDDown 1: Money means entanglement in evilBANKNOTEDDown 2: Playing hard to get backup from American invaderCOYPUDDown 3: A check on her identity contrived to pass Helen, and she had a chitchat with FaustusWASTHISTHEFACEDDown 4: Spike at French city during the first partEARLY ONDDown 5: Cat makes waterTIDDLESDDown 7: Shrew's connection shown in anguish or tensionHORTENSIODDown 8: Quality of wood warped at endTIMBREDDown 9: Cortes and Co. that squint producer lovesCONQUISTADORESDDown 15: Clear behind? Go higher still at bridgeOVERTRUMPDDown 16: Frith's colour returns while it's lightDERBYDAYDDown 18: Leg it with us, moving furthest from fairUGLIESTDDown 19: The highest level one's required to talk onTOPRATEDDown 20: Godhead after a 25APOLLODDown 23: Fool, friend to princeCHUMP