The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 22nd June 2006 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd June 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Plant finds bachelor in high spiritsEUPHORBIAAAcross 10: Blast old cap!TRUMPAAcross 11: Born in Italian city, getting energy from motorTURBINEAAcross 12: Fruit - one swallowed by Biblical liarANANIASAAcross 13: Fitzgerald's desanctified lager?ELLAAAcross 14: Speeding up sequence before finish and start of oratorioSTRINGENDOAAcross 16: Likely to carry part of five-litre flask backFERTILEAAcross 17: A bitter blow for head of the Church?BIRETTAAAcross 19: Two-way processing of force''s third police carRECIPROCALAAcross 22: Fish round in airDORYAAcross 24: Saviour resurrected by divers, formerlyVARIOUSAAcross 25: Crazy about a service in Swiss townLOCARNOAAcross 26: Exchange of clienteleTRADEAAcross 27: Knots sure to come undone as result of overexposureSUNSTROKEDDown 1: V's pivotal point?CENTRE OF GRAVITYDDown 2: Kings in medical setback almost sent up fireworkSPARKLERDDown 3: Capital piece of furniture I acquiredSOFIADDown 4: Missing person dispatched in the middle of a competitionABSENTEEDDown 5: Setter is, unfortunately, upset by sausageSALAMIDDown 6: Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problemSTRANGURYDDown 7: Reported allegorist's foot ailmentBUNIONDDown 8: Year spoilt by "Les liaisons dangereuses", say?EPISTOLARYNOVELDDown 15: Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistakeDISPROVENDDown 17: Unpolished jewellery put outside for scrappingBRAWLINGDDown 18: Arab money raised by part of factoryTOOLROOMDDown 20: True Church in wrong order for breakfast, perhapsCEREALDDown 21: Fixate on love -- Porgy's -- capturing heart of musicOBSESSDDown 23: Accent displaying perspicacityACUTE