The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 2nd April 2007 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 2nd April 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Cramped hippo, see, needs appliance that's flexibleHOSEPIPEAAcross 5: Brownie in snap has a hang-upPHOBICAAcross 9: Press person to get hopeful lover in bed? On the contrarySUBEDITORAAcross 11: Wife taken in by Eleanor's colourBROWNAAcross 12: Barrow boy with red setter, tar-spatteredSTREETTRADERAAcross 15: Listen to hospital shipHARKAAcross 16: Meat cooked thus, scraps of horse sent back, badSTROGANOFFAAcross 18: Fruit seeds produced by Spiro Agnew (the last to be dropped for President)ORANGEPIPSAAcross 19: Indigo gets a zeroANILAAcross 21: Additional policeman is unusually distinguishedEXTRASPECIALAAcross 24: One of the Gershwins to question one from the Middle EastIRAQIAAcross 25: Right back is full of dash in GermanyRHINELANDAAcross 26: Don't start therapeutic comedies here, not now!EALINGAAcross 27: Hard to go back round Provençal town without cryingTEARLESSDDown 1: Entertainer offers great numbersHOSTDDown 2: Advances when transport turns up from the southSUBSDDown 3: Some gaped at earthlings with feetPEDATEDDown 4: Having moved pepper pot, aunt began to writePUTPENTOPAPERDDown 6: Prince accepts I live with sailors of a winterHIBERNALDDown 7: John Lawrence, in spring, gets the dogBLOODHOUNDDDown 8: Inside spread little money about for congregationCENTREFOLDDDown 10: Unexpectedly reprieve Scott exhibitionRETROSPECTIVEDDown 13: Quiet: nothing to inspect during drive for three blessed days!SHROVETIDEDDown 14: Retainer may, ludicrously, be all strawBREASTWALLDDown 17: Artist introduced to lively rag by man of the landAGRARIANDDown 20: Note in tender professionCAREERDDown 22: Foreshortened sketch appearedCAMEDDown 23: Indeed, doesn't everyone say their leaders make this a prophetic day?IDES