The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 23rd May 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Fortunate to be up and about more?BLESSEDAAcross 5: One called to lay on fast food pudding?MACDUFFAAcross 10: State accommodation in neat stoneONYXAAcross 11: Everlasting cool celebrity on the box?PERMAFROSTAAcross 12: "Shut up", as voiced in AfghanistanPUSHTUAAcross 13: Gambling debts can be plausibly deceptiveSPECIOUSAAcross 14: A danger it constituted for one on stageTRAGEDIANAAcross 16: Contended outright with feverAGUEDAAcross 17: Doctor left in the middle of anxietyANGSTAAcross 19: English road bending where all go for takeoffAERODROMEAAcross 23: Joint assembly holds unexpected voteDOVETAILAAcross 24: For local support many find wherewithal to cough upPHLEGMAAcross 26: Build-up of gases - perhaps it's about time to clean flue?FLATULENCEAAcross 27: What trains seldom do, victim of stunted developmentRUNTAAcross 28: Rapid transit doesn't start on horsebackASTRIDEAAcross 29: Christmas perhaps, not beginning of summer in the USAESTIVALDDown 2: There's nothing in a monkey piningLANGUORDDown 3: Top formSIXTHDDown 4: Discourse on old sovereignEXPOUNDDDown 6: Rouse Scots cry to dismiss London leader?AWAKENDDown 7: Yankee weapon or the European copyDERRINGERDDown 8: Former archbishop spoke of a splitFISSUREDDown 9: Failing at sport, nameless country gives rise to complaint among the older generationPROSTATE GLANDDDown 15: It warms one, getting extra lunchGAS HEATERDDown 18: Food for simpletonsNOODLESDDown 20: Shore up collapse underground - he was thereORPHEUSDDown 21: Master spy taken in battleMAGENTADDown 22: Song and dance these daysBALLADDDown 25: Occupational disease caught from a metallurgist?LURGI