The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 20th September 2006 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 20th September 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Empress who danced briefly until confined by parentsMATILDAAAcross 5: Back number is in time to sufferAGONISEAAcross 10: Map chap - that's resonantPLANAAcross 11: Do well without turning nice and skilfulPROFICIENTAAcross 12: Shroud for setter is 15 24OVERMYAAcross 13: See 12DEAD BODYAAcross 14: I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercialPRINTHEADAAcross 16: Guide on the ranch?STEERAAcross 17: Stone's first entryAGATEAAcross 19: Limit prisoner's following ...CONSTRAINAAcross 23: ... which makes commercialsPUFFPUFFAAcross 24: See 15HELPITAAcross 26: Look at beat - it helps to keep timeWATCHSTRAPAAcross 27: See 10GENTAAcross 28: Rodin's work is unconvincing to royalsTHINKERAAcross 29: Won't clue Telford, say?NEW TOWNDDown 2: Quite besotted with an amorous student?ALL OVERDDown 2: Quite besotted with an amorous student?ALLOVERDDown 3: The man who wants his d____?INNERDDown 4: 's missing from audible check on oil paintingDIPTYCHDDown 6: Instrument protector nearly keeping itGUITARDDown 7: Exciting event at one's finger-tips?NAILBITERDDown 8: Little girl pursues wrongdoing till further noticeSINE DIEDDown 9: Writer of passages about wild bullFORD MADOX FORDDDown 15: Statement of resistance giving advance warning - three quarters reach nearly the infernal abyssNOTIFICANDDown 18: Leave posh beat in a stewGOULASHDDown 20: Waste silk product of science to take place unfinishedSCHAPPEDDown 21: 2 28s then find part of Tahiti with unlikely weatherITISNOWDDown 22: Lets us out of contentionTUSSLEDDown 25: Fast mover's lung? (I'm not serious)LIGHT