The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th December 2010 There are 16 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th December 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Tudor's defeat by Gloucester?STROUDAAcross 5: Cryptographer keeps caliph to say what's rightMORALISEAAcross 9: Lawbreaker in the beginning becomes stout fellowSTALWARTAAcross 10: 25 22's sheep have roomJACOBSAAcross 11: See 23TERNAAcross 12: Female poet holds small boy back from ground elderHERBGERARDAAcross 13: Medicine from tree manufactured in small limousineNIMOILAAcross 14: 25 22's married woman gets permit in timeDALLOWAYAAcross 16: 25 22's time to cut birdsTHEWAVESAAcross 19: Boy that's scruffy and pricklyURCHINAAcross 21: Thora's pupil in promise to be developedTHIRD WORLDAAcross 23: Wood strip makes bird a slutSLATAAcross 24: DJ produces poem with tenth note reversedTUXEDOAAcross 25: State what beast sounds like whose fearfulness has been questionedVIRGINIAAAcross 26: Ringer to turn into mad fly — I can't take any more!BELLYFULAAcross 27: In the course of … of the French and German cycleDURINGDDown 2: 25 22's child pupil in stature to accommodateTOTHELIGHTHOUSEDDown 3: 25 22's golden country with loveORLANDODDown 4: Ballet master, fat in face, taking two fifthsDIAGHILEVDDown 5: Crazy about true reform that's now readyMATUREDDDown 6: Change concerned with danceREJIGDDown 7: See what should be on plate by agreementLOCARNODDown 8: See what's making the countryside rot in a bus twiceSUBURBANISATIONDDown 15: As corollary, journalist over American city dealt with clothes or moneyLAUNDEREDDDown 17: Frank batsman in misery about rights and leftsWORRELLDDown 18: Reduce silver work with hydrogen injectionSHRIVELDDown 20: Decommission the person with the moneyCASHIERDDown 22: See 25WOOLF