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.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: A flower came upAROSEAAcross 10: Unstable rate set by comparatively stable officialTREASURERAAcross 11: Out on a limb in Linnaean terms, maybeBINOMINALAAcross 12: Winner wasted expensive drinks on womanAGNESAAcross 13: Unflagging vigour provides way to get a birdSTAMINAAAcross 15: Tie knot round flimsy curtains drawn back in theatrelandWEST ENDAAcross 17: Cancel periodical, having cut out one of its articlesANNULAAcross 18: Homeric ejaculation evinced by carrier's returnDOHAAcross 20: What to do at the Oscars — read e-book backwards?EMOTEAAcross 22: Chief among detectives turned desperateDRASTICAAcross 25: Officiant dropped one in churchMINSTERAAcross 26: Like judge's robes to be disorderlySOBERAAcross 27: Admit interrupting you once with directions to second homeTOWN HOUSEAAcross 27: Admit interrupting you once with directions to second homeTOWNHOUSEAAcross 30: Nappies in which to climb hills?FIRST GEARAAcross 31: College getting family groups evisceratedKINGSDDown 1: Give birth to male in experimental siteLAMBDDown 2: Public artwork formerly obliged to include headless horseFOUNTAINDDown 3: Hunt up or pour downTEEMDDown 4: Celebrity scoring +500 is par for the courseSTANDARDDDown 5: Cut about an arm's length and gain in toleranceMELLOWDDown 6: Fiddler getting actress in a whirlISAAC STERNDDown 7: Eg Fortinbras's charge — protecting Norway?PRINCEDDown 8: Monk's head falling two places in planet's insigniaARMSDDown 13: Pulls up the grassSWARDDDown 14: It's my intention to recite without scriptILLITERATEDDown 16: Tiresome introduction to drunken bumDREARDDown 19: Catcall in store on the way backHOMEWARDDDown 21: Yields to Julian Clary and Lily Savage, perhaps?OUTTURNSDDown 23: Man given warning about boysALBERTDDown 24: Saw, say, shipCUTTERDDown 26: Item of furniture as yet unfinishedSOFADDown 28: Agitate headless fishHAKEDDown 29: Promiscuous and, without question, a bit sickEASY