The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 28th September 2011 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 28th September 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Point taken by smallest in litter? Nothing to be added to thatTHEREUNTOAAcross 10: Nader's contribution to moral philosophyRALPHAAcross 11: Coin found by retired person in military baseIGNOBLEAAcross 12: Taking nothing in, beginning to feel a painFASTINGAAcross 13: Roller with order for RoverWHEELAAcross 14: Desperate to get 21 down? Ha-ha!LAST-DITCHAAcross 16: Palace official troubling monarch with "Dear Bill" lettersLORDCHAMBERLAINAAcross 19: Support is in sinkSUBSIDISEAAcross 21: Try some Bacon or Lamb?ESSAYAAcross 22: Loving Gordian knotsADORINGAAcross 23: Mary provides wonderful food when hosting partyMADONNAAAcross 24: School master's third brightest starGAMMAAAcross 25: Slug behind tree in military baseALDERSHOTDDown 1: 14 down goes round Icelandic capital — a small city where people walk up and downSTAIRWELLSDDown 2: Animals with peculiar prehensile tails, certainly not quite rightREINDEERDDown 3: Rather balmy, somewhat like Basil?HERBALDDown 4: A nobody taking out old queenANNEDDown 5: No fab clues — as an anagram is apt to be misleadingCONFUSABLEDDown 6: One on a mission is less refined about 21 across, we hearCRUSADERDDown 7: Grievance of Protestant leader with post-Reformation LatinPLAINTDDown 8: Time to put squeeze on 17?THUGDDown 14: One given top billing in England? I'm a stranger!LEADING MANDDown 15: Period in China, both useful and unpleasantHAN DYNASTYDDown 17: Not the last resort in state for Capone, sayCRIMINALDDown 18: This bean may be transformed into a drinkABSINTHEDDown 20: Orlando's flowers …BLOOMSDDown 21: … complete with flower for bearENDUREDDown 22: Freight heading off in legendary shipARGODDown 23: Drink picked up for Darius?MEDE