The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th May 2006 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th May 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: May's tax pundit will p-panic if confused. (Nothing's certain until it's over)MANYASLIPTWIXTAAcross 8: Distributed old pennies round the 'orrible placeDOLEDAAcross 9: Switch involves mechanical routine for source of vitamin ACAROTENEAAcross 11: Books one back in football team briefly showing spiritMANITOUAAcross 12: Complaint on farm that is behind a bitSCRAPIEAAcross 13: Suffer pain? Cure partlyINCURAAcross 15: Soil piled after shifting the earth, for exampleELLIPSOIDAAcross 17: Heart of reader absorbs second plot in "A Walk By The Sea"ESPLANADEAAcross 20: Slick rep's unusual namePREENAAcross 21: How to continue play when in touchLINEOUTAAcross 23: No joke where French knocks out English in setSERIOUSAAcross 25: Waste of time if there's no date to treatyALLIANCEAAcross 26: Material turnover for a shopping areaLLAMAAAcross 27: The flight of a cockney costermonger?APPLESANDPEARSDDown 1: The French miss the wine, including one produced firstMADEMOISELLEDDown 2: "Yarn of Two Cities", taking only half secondNYLONDDown 3: Examination round broadcast picked up in hallsAUDITORIADDown 4: Tick off when rule etc is brokenLECTUREDDown 5: The republic's statute mostly up for scrutinyPERUSALDDown 6: Fancy art we featured in seascapeWATERDDown 7: Use English phone box - I don't like foreign onesXENOPHOBEDDown 10: Accomplished rules with the people above to improve behaviourMENDONESWAYSDDown 14: See 1 acrossCUPANDLIPDDown 16: Sheet anchor?PAPER CLIPDDown 16: Sheet anchor?PAPERCLIPDDown 18: LA goes for song in the charts and adjusts the situationATTUNESDDown 19: Ten pies consumed? He needed to work off a stone!EPSTEINDDown 22: Window put up in terrible ironworksORIELDDown 24: City producing order that's a bit of a laugh?OMAHA