The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 25th August 2006 There are 17 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 25th August 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: What it will take to get the President out of the woods?BUSHCRAFTAAcross 6: Dank smell, fishHUMIDAAcross 9: A man comes back a strangerALIENAAcross 10: Study of food in parliament, standards hard to ignoreDIETETICSAAcross 11: Little fellow pinching roast cooked for a person of tasteGASTRONOMEAAcross 12: Prince Otto's original ringHALOAAcross 14: Material mostly extorted from writerDRABBLEAAcross 15: Politician with burst ulcer getting out of crushCRUMPLEAAcross 17: In wraps, cast around for summer in FranceSHEETEDAAcross 19: Go off to serve tea without a fry-upPUTREFYAAcross 20: Choice of model to enter bay in the OrkneysVOTEAAcross 22: Fish pieces in East Street on the steep sideESCARPMENTAAcross 25: Game left in court entertains father, first to lastWATER POLOAAcross 26: Kind of net put in the groundINTERAAcross 27: Hell of a danceLIMBOAAcross 28: Characteristic habits of poor Lily's feetLIFE-STYLEAAcross 28: Characteristic habits of poor Lily's feetLIFESTYLEDDown 1: Slam outside hospital with a narcoticBHANGDDown 2: Trim with a design for top hat is, perhaps, not rightSHIPSHAPEDDown 3: Copy out of old books, having university note to addCONTRIBUTEDDown 4: Smoker's means of identification comes over as being moderately slowANDANTEDDown 5: The marine in charge of the heatTHERMICDDown 6: Dickensian mound reportedHEEPDDown 7: Dr Gershwin is a womanMOIRADDown 8: ''Eureka'' record? Nothing muchDISCOVERYDDown 13: Proliferates on a basis of untruths - mine going up and up the chimneyMULTIPLIESDDown 14: Saying about 5-0 in face of contradictionDISAVOWALDDown 16: Soon this time, extremely likelyPRESENTLYDDown 18: Some French quietly lubricate stripDESPOILDDown 19: Performance cancelled due to lack of a final decision last timePLAY OFFDDown 19: Performance cancelled due to lack of a final decision last timePLAYOFFDDown 21: Little one sending me up the pole, for exampleTOTEMDDown 23: Almost aim for the shieldTARGEDDown 24: Old tracks, one with old livelinessBRIO