The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th March 2010 There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th March 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Second team invested in poxy financeSPONSORAAcross 5: Exercise in ring, ending in whack for the motivatorPEP TALKAAcross 5: Exercise in ring, ending in whack for the motivatorPEPTALKAAcross 9: Prominence one observed on front of swimming trunksTORSIAAcross 10: Part of the way open is to nearest South Yorkshire townPENISTONEAAcross 11: Frantic having to survive, far from greatLAST-MINUTEAAcross 12: Inelegantly swan dips to cause bubbles to surface?PASSAAcross 14: North Yorkshire town laughs, bit of a slow burnerGIGGLESWICKAAcross 18: Conclude there's a requirement for an unexpected dinner guest to eat nothingEXTRAPOLATEAAcross 21: Elder plantSAGEAAcross 22: West Yorkshire town's ref not surprisingly in agreementPONTEFRACTAAcross 25: Heading off big fish, US supercarrier adjusts conclusion, being in accordUNANIMITYAAcross 26: West Yorkshire town, disparate, lacking leadershipOTLEYAAcross 27: Still to come to grips with new road, finding way backYEAR DOTAAcross 28: Tried, perhaps, to fill middle of cheese dishESSAYEDDDown 1: Calm North Yorkshire townSETTLEDDown 2: Forceful surge forward after end of ten hours being furiousONRUSHDDown 3: Is cat among horses up for the earth-shattering record?SEISMOGRAMDDown 4: Don't tear off to see North Yorkshire townRIPONDDown 5: Smoke that's brown rising in foreign foodPANATELLADDown 6: Advertise jobPOSTDDown 7: A poet like Byron forgetting name, like 21 and 23, say?AROMATICDDown 8: Token food before drinkKEEPSAKEDDown 13: Fido's legs struggling to get round old part of LondonISLEOFDOGSDDown 15: Having to understand about oxygen chart is student of the earthGEOLOGISTDDown 16: Polish European not finishing up year in West Yorkshire townDEWSBURYDDown 17: Letter from Greece about tyrannical leader that's appreciated as evidence of sufferingSTIGMATADDown 19: West Yorkshire town where pert rear seen through hay on top of youBATLEYDDown 20: Didn't go steady after a wobbleSTAYEDDDown 23: Plant which has healing properties, they sayTHYMEDDown 24: See 12WIND