The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 7th September 2011 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 7th September 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Ulysses remake represented modern-day exilesASYLUMAAcross 5: Dames popular with sailors?BROADSAAcross 8: One is getting skinny without essential nutrientTHIAMINAAcross 9: See 1SEEKERSAAcross 11: I have ruled as tsar, haven't I?IVAN THE TERRIBLEAAcross 12: Does once make orthographical mistakeDOTHAAcross 13: Sadly concur more than half of drugs can be found in abundanceCORNUCOPIAAAcross 17: They love football team's jockstraps?SUPPORTERSAAcross 18: It's nasty, brutish, shortCRUDAAcross 20: Extremely dangerous and revolting, the trematode devours other's innardsARMEDTOTHETEETHAAcross 23: After essentially easeful death, poor beggar's finally buried and returned to the groundEARTHEDAAcross 24: Provide new material for extremely familiar Private Eye gagRE-EQUIPAAcross 24: Provide new material for extremely familiar Private Eye gagREEQUIPAAcross 25: Devotee starts to find Lady Gaga unbearably boringDEADLYAAcross 26: Country bumpkins died for the king, making horrible noisesYODELSDDown 2: Pretend group performed in theatre?SPINAL TAPDDown 3: Without these I'm itLIMITSDDown 4: Bloke has to leave vegetablesMANGETOUTDDown 5: Count brass (mine regularly goes missing)BASIEDDown 6: Obsessive finds love on the web a source of painONETRACKDDown 7: Eejit in America taken in by weel-faur'd wee bletherskateDWEEBDDown 8: English actress's assets for part of the political systemTHIRD ESTATEDDown 10: Management employing waitress with PhDSTEWARDSHIPDDown 14: Doctor only ignoring adult's rather trapped windNORTHERLYDDown 15: Constant review of university in recent studyPERPETUALDDown 16: Moved like the wind around end of haunted outhouseWOODSHEDDDown 19: Amateur race which is dangerous, being over the limit in EscortATTENDDDown 21: Diminutive, fat and married to HomerMARGEDDown 22: In the manner of 1, 9 — perhaps in a strange wayODDLY