The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 21st March 2007 There are 17 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st March 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Footballers afford bills for mink at tremendous rateFASTANDAAcross 5: See 1FURIOUSAAcross 9: Absolute refusal comes near to defining womankindNEVERAAcross 10: "None my own work" is seen first in match recorderSCISSORERAAcross 11: A raptor or two could "show a leg" (wake) outside hospitalEAGLEHAWKAAcross 12: Be naughty again, by gum!RESINAAcross 13: Plant is all about past endingSEDUMAAcross 15: Universal myth came about from internal problemTUMMYACHEAAcross 18: Third international knockout number by doctorKOMINTERNAAcross 19: Protest born from return to civvy streetDEMOBAAcross 21: Delete, about as beforeERASEAAcross 23: Stimulation with acid to get process goingKICK-STARTAAcross 23: Stimulation with acid to get process goingKICKSTARTAAcross 25: To sum up, English boy is into foodEPITOMISEAAcross 26: Dairy product, a small river going into a pipeBRIERAAcross 27: Maintenance in the cotton mill is a two-way affairSHUTTLEAAcross 28: See 27SERVICEDDown 1: Restoration not in question when making friends with zoo workersFINDERSDDown 2: Barbarism of some, not all, including one five-year-old?SAVAGEDOMDDown 3: Fellow traders don't take a horse without rightAGREEDDown 4: Take apart ideology, apart from the left, in a poetDISMANTLEDDown 5: Arm to cut when filming?FLICKDDown 6: Given fresh colour as requested by soldiersRESPRAYEDDDown 7: The root of topless danceORRISDDown 8: Believe it or not, good guy has scope for container of wine and herbSTRANGEDDown 14: Guy to escape - don't leave a thingMANGETOUTDDown 16: Space in the West's for dualistsMANICHEESDDown 17: Towers of indigo in foreign fieldsCAMPANILIDDown 18: See 1 downKEEPERSDDown 20: See 8BUTTRUEDDown 22: Final remark on something that's straight in the goldADIEUDDown 23: See 5 downKNIFEDDown 24: Singular cricketer resembling judgeSOBER