The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th May 2007 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th May 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Man with Mrs Gore, embracing her, surely wasn't 8JACK THE RIPPERAAcross 10: A rebel at the setter's schoolACADEMYAAcross 11: Nameless town with church music extractSTRETTOAAcross 12: Destroy nearly everything after a drinkTOTALAAcross 13: "Fluid found in garment just bought"(preliminary bulletin)NEWSFLASHAAcross 14: Woman pursuing engineer officerREEVEAAcross 16: Maybe Mr Goethe left one not his last letter, his last wordsMORELIGHTAAcross 18: Where things (such as flowers in Beds) come outINTHEWASHAAcross 19: Prisoner's campOFLAGAAcross 20: One go at typing crucial transactions in PeterboroughKEY STROKEAAcross 20: One go at typing crucial transactions in PeterboroughKEYSTROKEAAcross 23: Pursue graduate for settled teachingDOGMAAAcross 24: Director grabs one like nymph compared with cherryRUDDIERAAcross 25: Fairly bicoloured kitchen objectPIEDISHAAcross 26: Silencers add lustre to city with heartless soldiersGLOSSECTOMIESDDown 2: Separate people after a time in the living roomAPARTMENTDDown 3: Ringer for dead king and girlfriend?KNELLDDown 4: Handy sort of musicianHAYDNDDown 5: Hurry to desert visitor to Mansfield ParkRUSHWORTHDDown 6: Lubricator of too much in France put up a case for a ministerPORTFOLIODDown 7: In this context rationality is a plusEXTRADDown 8: Painter has to change being less healthy in weightWALTERSICKERTDDown 9: Ban on pictures by Hogarth - two works destroyed in New YorkNOPHOTOGRAPHYDDown 15: Powerful stuff offset with circleELECTRICSDDown 16: We made our version of a wild flowerMEADOW RUEDDown 17: Brown coal placed under earth is explosiveGELIGNITEDDown 21: Greeting of French student with Swiss voice?YODELDDown 22: Take in about 10p from one far from homeEXPATDDown 23: Fancy starting again inside mummy?DREAM