The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 28th April 2006 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 28th April 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Topping speech by ambassadorHEADDRESSAAcross 6: Performances before RomansACTSAAcross 10: Prose composition benefits from their knowledgeROPESAAcross 11: Element of Lucy's style?MANGANESEAAcross 12: Last Station of the Cross removed to centre, causing annoyance?CHAGRINAAcross 13: Ploughing one's furrow while still young enough?TILLAGEAAcross 14: Majority of homework about hesitation in waltz, sayPREPONDERANCEAAcross 17: Here's a load of old cobblersSHEERNONSENSEAAcross 21: Marine inhabitant has a month at workOCTOPUSAAcross 22: Get new home service to wounded heroREHOUSEAAcross 24: Care taken at gunpoint?FORESIGHTAAcross 25: Daggers found by dead priestOBELIAAcross 26: Deception involving animals broadcast in AustraliaRUSEAAcross 27: Lateral blow - blow about 7 fatal dateSIDESWIPEDDown 1: Printout that's not easy to reproduceHARD COPYDDown 2: First in classicsALPHADDown 3: Rat, as a legionnaire might say of his situationDESERTONESPOSTDDown 4: Like the nobility, resolved to remove leadersERMINEDDDown 5: Warped reason to include time for a US politicianSENATORDDown 7: Cut that ensured Macduff's survivalCAESAREANDDown 8: Unedifying episodes in 6SCENESDDown 9: Government's educational priority - and what it's doing?FAILINGSCHOOLSDDown 15: Never, never, never fall for such a euphemism!EASYTERMSDDown 16: What the vicar has been, perhaps, if promoted by the churchBENEFICEDDown 18: Gives up pressing need for reform from the startRESIGNSDDown 19: Physicist seen poetically across the street by a boyOERSTEDDDown 20: Get together about tree, one having been removedCONFERDDown 23: Rooms for the next generation, as Roy Jenkins might have saidUTERI