The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 15th September 2011 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 15th September 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Immobilise dog or duckPINTAILAAcross 5: Lover of drama getting married? Just the oppositeANTONYMAAcross 9: Top general brought back to cover cross-country leaderEXCELAAcross 10: Find out by way of Cartesian integrationASCERTAINAAcross 11: Drink tea with American in plane?CHARTREUSEAAcross 12: New cast play partsACTSAAcross 14: Backing too much for musicians with one knocker?OPPORTUNITYAAcross 18: Heads for building opposite the Tate — one room is for old mastersBOTTICELLISAAcross 21: Running through concerto in a bygone eraONCEAAcross 22: Farm workers shed, if land is developedFIELDHANDSAAcross 25: Number 5 comes forward to grab check materialVELVETEENAAcross 26: No parking in front of club, sayUTTERAAcross 27: Woman turning to husband in boatDOROTHYAAcross 28: Market town supplying meat on 24 and 31 December?EVESHAMDDown 1: Supporter with cigarette ends is 23PIERCEDDown 2: Delicious drink in centre of Birmingham cheers RexNECTARDDown 3: A couple of lines? Old line on map taking more than one formALLOTROPICDDown 4: Don't take what's taken on departureLEAVEDDown 5: 23 tars at sea, coming down a line?ANCESTRALDDown 6: Wrong time or right time for startersTORTDDown 7: Denoting a region not far from Connecticut, originally in CanadaNEARCTICDDown 8: My need is desperate for fancy situationMIND'S EYEDDown 13: Reckon you once must be content with ultimate in state pensionGUESTHOUSEDDown 15: Abstract, see? Just so!PRECISELYDDown 16: Bad sort possessing crack is acquittedABSOLVEDDDown 17: Particular person may be second one catching troutSTICKLERDDown 19: Melodic fragment is small, of courseSNATCHDDown 20: Ringleader captured in a feigned retreatASHRAMDDown 23: Cut necessitated by knight losing fortune?LANCEDDown 24: Former PM's majority in preliminary roundHEAT