The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 13th May 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 13th May 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: 10's epitaph: "I died (RIP): Hell hath no bar open the while, a disaster"ONTHEAAcross 4: See 1IDRATHERAAcross 8: One deducing knowledge from goose spittle? I'm confused!EPISTEMOLOGISTAAcross 10: Can areas of study define a wit?W. C. FIELDSAAcross 11: Behind with the deliveryBREECHAAcross 12: Skin colour's origin's apparent once I speak about it!EXCORIATEAAcross 15: BT Call-minder?OFTELAAcross 17: ... or could he put his finger on it?MIDASAAcross 18: Smoothed the way old priest worked overEXPEDITEDAAcross 19: One with an eye for a poor camel?NEEDLEAAcross 21: Eye of a VIPBIOWHEELAAcross 24: Callow, hogtied, shy. Oh, that is awkward!HOBBLEDEHOYISHAAcross 25: Coming from Danzig (EU), nervous travellerZIGEUNERAAcross 26: Run outside!EXTRADDown 1: Finished with taking the wheel, too much to handle?OVERWHELMINGDDown 2: Like Aguecheek with "a lean and hungry look"? In fact, he'd collapsed!THINFACEDDDown 3: Scots intend to take the lid off the boilerETTLEDDown 4: Closest to one male umpireIMMEDIATEDDown 5: Get up the nose, say, of the Astronomer RoyalRYLEDDown 6: Great golfer Eldrick losing final for flooringTIGERWOODDDown 7: Great golfer! That's my girl!ELSIEDDown 9: See 1 acrossPHILADELPHIADDown 13: Failure turning blue with effort can be determinedRESOLUBLEDDown 14: How some buy wine as the negociant's in fear guarding the marginENPRIMEURDDown 16: How far might swordsman go? Oh, the wicked insertion during joustTO THE HILTDDown 20: Pathogenic agent could pass through every intestine initiallyE. COLIDDown 22: See 1 acrossWHOLEDDown 23: See 1 acrossBEIN