The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 2nd June 2008 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 2nd June 2008. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Risk total defeat at WimbledonCOURTDISASTERAAcross 10: No longer an individual to esteem, that's clearEXONERATEAAcross 11: Pavarotti, say, or that's the implicationTENORAAcross 12: Waste groundsDREGSAAcross 13: Just one taking role in mail distributionIMPARTIALAAcross 14: Possibly solve it in bed?VIOLETSAAcross 16: Prepares by boiling for two months before summer startsDECOCTSAAcross 18: Row with the French continues bitterlyRANKLESAAcross 20: Brace of fresh lobsterBOLSTERAAcross 21: Nut or nutsECCENTRICAAcross 23: Money is a bait that takes in manyLUCREAAcross 24: Chilli left out, resorting to fruitLICHIAAcross 25: She got a sovereign by selling orangesNELL GWYNNAAcross 26: Top man realising some changes are requiredGENERALISSIMODDown 2: How you may live if single-minded?ONONESOWNDDown 3: Rocks and rolls in lively dancesREELSDDown 4: Books of record I'd sent up to signDIARIESDDown 5: Soaked in the deepest concoctionSTEEPEDDDown 6: Critical of racialist broadcastSATIRICALDDown 7: Boredom in endless night in FranceENNUIDDown 8: How lovesick acrobats may be?HEAD OVER HEELSDDown 9: He gives marching orders to more than one material workerDRILLSERGEANTDDown 15: Inelegant sort of climberEGLANTINEDDown 17: Initially cats stay calm around upheavalCATACLYSMDDown 19: Shrub that's no good in Asian countrySYRINGADDown 20: One bill inside another, I conclude, may cause ill feelingBACILLIDDown 22: Store of ready money, we hearCACHEDDown 23: City gaols demolishedLAGOS