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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd June 2011

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd June 2011. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: A flower came up
AAcross 10: Unstable rate set by comparatively stable official
AAcross 11: Out on a limb in Linnaean terms, maybe
AAcross 12: Winner wasted expensive drinks on womanAGNES
AAcross 13: Unflagging vigour provides way to get a bird
AAcross 15: Tie knot round flimsy curtains drawn back in theatreland
AAcross 17: Cancel periodical, having cut out one of its articles
AAcross 18: Homeric ejaculation evinced by carrier's return
AAcross 20: What to do at the Oscars — read e-book backwards?
AAcross 22: Chief among detectives turned desperate
AAcross 25: Officiant dropped one in church
AAcross 26: Like judge's robes to be disorderly
AAcross 27: Admit interrupting you once with directions to second home
AAcross 27: Admit interrupting you once with directions to second home
AAcross 30: Nappies in which to climb hills?
AAcross 31: College getting family groups eviscerated
DDown 1: Give birth to male in experimental site
DDown 2: Public artwork formerly obliged to include headless horse
DDown 3: Hunt up or pour down
DDown 4: Celebrity scoring +500 is par for the course
DDown 5: Cut about an arm's length and gain in tolerance
DDown 6: Fiddler getting actress in a whirl
DDown 7: Eg Fortinbras's charge — protecting Norway?
DDown 8: Monk's head falling two places in planet's insignia
DDown 13: Pulls up the grass
DDown 14: It's my intention to recite without script
DDown 16: Tiresome introduction to drunken bum
DDown 19: Catcall in store on the way back
DDown 21: Yields to Julian Clary and Lily Savage, perhaps?
DDown 23: Man given warning about boys
DDown 24: Saw, say, ship
DDown 26: Item of furniture as yet unfinished
DDown 28: Agitate headless fish
DDown 29: Promiscuous and, without question, a bit sick
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