The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 27th May 2008 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 27th May 2008. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Short girl eaten by moleSKIMPYAAcross 4: Doing backstroke, swim round lake with fish - such as thisPILCHARDAAcross 9: Deal with content of briefsTACKLEAAcross 10: Poetess shaves - about time for the queen?PAMAYRESAAcross 11: Upper-class bigot is to peer, roughly, as middle class to lower?PETIT BOURGEOISAAcross 13: Grow to love job as scoldTAKE TO TASKAAcross 14: Filthy thing close to eyeSTYEAAcross 16: Dud pudDUFFAAcross 18: Man perhaps not the first, as first man alone describing T-shirt?SLEEVELESSAAcross 21: Actress and comedienne who's accompanied by old brute and old composerWHOOPIGOLDBERGAAcross 23: Compound of nitrates in old boys' network?TRAIN SETAAcross 24: Fiddle with necktie enough not to be taken seriouslyTONGUEAAcross 25: Wine dry, though lips not - that is the drinkRIESLINGAAcross 26: Get plastered on one knee, perhapsSENDERDDown 1: Place among collector's itemsSITEDDown 2: See 24INCHEEKDDown 3: Ease pain, beginning to pump the contents of my stomach?PALLIATEDDown 5: Where fruit's held brieflyIN A NUTSHELLDDown 6: Rush paymentCHARGEDDown 7: Character left for holiday destinationAIRPORTDDown 8: Tragedies making sister sadDISASTERSDDown 12: Courage shown before something flagged a shadeBOTTLE-GREENDDown 13: Breaking through layer, early moisture acts oddly - it rises and fallsTIDEWATERDDown 15: Welsh town penniless under English, Lloyd George once heldPEMBROKEDDown 17: Film of the Labour Party between 1980 and 1983?FOOTAGEDDown 19: Need, when furious, to contain what one loses when so angryENRAGEDDDown 20: Note pops up in a column?SPINALDDown 22: Paddington's stomachBEAR