The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 28th May 2004 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 28th May 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Stereotypical movies featuring characters as in fleeing Biloxi plantationBLAXPLOITATIONAAcross 8: Congressman's acknowledgement?ROGERAAcross 9: Romance in the air?SERENADEAAcross 11: Japanese arrangements getting thumbs down among flatpack floggersIKEBANAAAcross 12: Hoosiers at home with Artemis here?INDIANAAAcross 13: Bell knell isn't muffledELLISAAcross 15: Novelist nicking lines from Moliere?, lazy hack!EMILE ZOLAAAcross 17: What could restore amour-propre? French state bringing in expertsFACE SAVERAAcross 20: Safe accommodation detached from collegePETERAAcross 21: Is society sustained by good memory of Virgil, spatially?GRISSOMAAcross 23: Flat feast? Don't hold your breath!BLOW OUTAAcross 23: Flat feast? Don't hold your breath!BLOWOUTAAcross 25: Perform one in public and tire oneself outOVERDOITAAcross 26: It's old-time retro for this song writerTOSTIAAcross 27: He investigated for 13 20s shortly before cathedral collapsedBROTHERCADFAELDDown 1: Express hatred with fun by firing European figuresBURNINEFFIGYDDown 2: Reason with a bad egg; there's nothing lostARGUEDDown 3: Susan's sloppy modern monologue rising to the peak of poetryPARNASSUSDDown 4: Before the house agents, nothing dodgyONSTAGEDDown 5: Having something of pitch, can one compose? He did!TARTINIDDown 6: Delouse, as it were, when climbing with spikesTINEDDDown 7: Not one of us? Not even him abroad?ODD MAN OUTDDown 10: Horse sick around the withers initially; get a cloth!CAVALRYTWILLDDown 14: "Young _____ is come out of the West" (Scott). See! See! In China, right?LOCHINVARDDown 16: Ripped off old Arafat's lot with change of dietEXPLOITEDDDown 18: Move so move accepted, perhapsVAMOOSEDDown 19: So Hal was appropriate, according to The Listener!ROBOTICDDown 22: Fish on a fat-free dietSPRATDDown 24: Irish bard detailed indication of a musical optionOSSIA