The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 1st June 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 1st June 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Writer takes walk to meadow, flanked by birdsSTEPHEN LEACOCKAAcross 9: Ship won't necessarily flourishMAYFLOWERAAcross 10: Make fun of operatic character getting caughtMIMICAAcross 11: Listener (going back) seen as home for fashionable poetRAINEAAcross 12: Food pioneer found out, keeping very quietPEPPERONIAAcross 13: Material in test given to secretary?TEMPORALAAcross 14: Big bird is "bony"OSTEALAAcross 17: Part of firework display with music out of this worldROCKETAAcross 19: Make contact with head to establish suitabilityMEETNESSAAcross 22: Improve, having married priest - nothing to reproveMELIORATEAAcross 24: Family member pleasant, full of energyNIECEAAcross 25: Classical name sending message from the ladies' circle?NOMENAAcross 26: The debtor somehow under an obligation to settle?BETROTHEDAAcross 27: Screams on a tug'd send us scurrying?COASTGUARDSMENDDown 1: Problematical situation to bore chaps in group half slouching around?SEMIRETIREMENTDDown 2: See problem when one enters blessed placeELYSIUMDDown 3: The horrible situation 'e put up with on account of Lily?HELLEBOREDDown 4: Phony language not what you get in the silly season?NEWSPEAKDDown 5: Princess who works as a secretary in Brussels?EUROPADDown 6: Valley searched thoroughly, endlesslyCOMBEDDown 7: Arrive without vessel for dessertCOMPOTEDDown 8: Body tissue that's reconstituted in the lad's cloneACHILLES TENDONDDown 15: Was lazier than the Piggy-wig in tree?SATINWOODDDown 16: I made waves about hospital department providing for mental illnessDEMENTIADDown 18: Behold musical band going round that capital cityCOLOMBODDown 20: Man buried under his female ancestor's townEVESHAMDDown 21: Yapper's joke about sailors capsizingGASBAGDDown 23: In corn I see the region's birdsORNIS