The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 18th May 2011 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th May 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Hated going round a bit back in unroadworthy car?DEATHTRAPAAcross 10: Spruce tree's first seen in Bath, not the outskirts in another cityNATTYAAcross 11: Scolding woman was heartless with her rollickingSHREWAAcross 12: UN priority involved no unknown breaking inIRRUPTIONAAcross 13: Flipping major road's no good for getting stuckJAMMINGAAcross 14: Tail of diver or another bird, not one that's a big swimmerRORQUALAAcross 17: One church infiltrating another's hiding placeCACHEAAcross 19: Dickensian advice for treating itch, involving shilling in change?BOBAAcross 20: Old man holding army corps in aweDREADAAcross 21: Cooked with a little brown bread, sayBRAISEDAAcross 22: Artists masquerading as people hesitating to follow my leadMUMMERSAAcross 24: Teller of tales has crane cavorting with lots of …RACONTEURAAcross 26: … fish from the River Ouse, until tickling startsTROUTAAcross 28: Sign tooth decay hasn't started, as seen in the mirror at 2?ARIESAAcross 29: Leader of Uriah Heep's got to reform groupTHEPOGUESDDown 1: Some of these Dickensians turned up for a day in 24 down reportedlyIDESDDown 2: Hit written after 22 down half cut grassMARRAMDDown 3: Irate Welsh dancing group — were they …THEWAILERSDDown 4: … caught being 25 after piano disappeared?CRYINGDDown 5: Magazine once distributed in Paris — and Bern brieflySPARERIBDDown 6: Adult taken in by party gameSNAPDDown 7: Position of a small singer in performing duetATTITUDEDDown 8: Hue and cry about doctor getting struck offCYANDDown 13: Dickensian nut that's spread out on grass toplessJACOBDDown 15: Dire tempo applied to end of McEwan's AtonementREDEMPTIONDDown 16: Places to swim for the larger figured person when topless?LIDOSDDown 18: See 19 acrossCRATCHITDDown 19: Mad about daughter getting the sack over things never getting settledBADDEBTSDDown 22: See 13MARLEYDDown 23: Used mobile outside times to ring if going out …EXODUSDDown 24: … to use it abroad, say, with nothing in memoryROAMDDown 25: Inquisitive new sailor sat on top of yardarmNOSYDDown 27: One of 3 originally displayed in PhotoshopTOSH