The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 18th October 2006 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th October 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: One's so taken about male stripISTHMUSAAcross 5: Pass form of transport going the wrong way, so take another?GOBYBUSAAcross 9: Good company wrested from LiberalPIOUSAAcross 10: Experience a sign of disrespect in plateADVENTUREAAcross 11: Money offered by female bird for anotherGUINEA FOWLAAcross 12: Miss heads of German interrogators with rifles and LugersGIRLAAcross 14: 6 12 "XY" required - America rejected "Z" and Britain "I"KISSYSUZUKIAAcross 18: 6 12 needing countless saucers of milk?PUSSYGALOREAAcross 21: Pain beginning to hurt in oneACHEAAcross 22: Sweet thing found in cells, awfully dry, I'm not sure is 6 12HONEYRYDERAAcross 25: 6 12 shows patienceSOLITAIREAAcross 26: Between partners at the table, knock back 'umongous drinkNEGUSAAcross 27: His perversion as a transvestite could be cleanerDISHRAGAAcross 28: Separate 12 accompanying another in viceDISJOINDDown 1: Setter's a dog - no! Challenge as falseIMPUGNDDown 2: Subject receives sovereign on one of two linesTROPICDDown 3: Makes tyres burst with instruments turned in holesMASTERKEYSDDown 4: Man may be crookSTAFFDDown 5: Having got out, it's claimed Paul's system let outGIVEWAYTODDown 6: Union man files nameBONDDDown 7: Audibly protest at timber shopBOUTIQUEDDown 8: It may be boring having to sit around suffering, heading for breakdownSHELLBITDDown 13: Mystical characters investing c-currency to undertake various tasksRUNERRANDSDDown 15: Shanty about popular salt?SEASONINGDDown 16: S, T, V and W condemned, but ________ liftedUPRAISEDDDown 17: Certain surfaces where poisonous thing stopsASPHALTSDDown 19: Saying unfinished 10 slowlyADAGIODDown 20: 24, spin or 24PRISONDDown 23: Country having ousted leader, Germany correctEMENDDDown 24: Fire breaking through cast ironSTIR