The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 14th December 2011 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 14th December 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: One admitted a Nobel explosive leads to pulverised body partsBONEMEALAAcross 9: Third element of "uncertainty principle" gripped German physicistPLANCKAAcross 10: Key test about to reveal smallest particleATOMAAcross 11: Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some?SUPERFLUIDAAcross 12: "Steady state" system originally anticipated by East Germans of intelligenceSTASISAAcross 14: Quiet, originally unorthodox Tesla's eccentricity varies in intensityPULSATESAAcross 15: Express disapproval of unrewarding type of logicBOOLEANAAcross 17: Very hard computer programming language? Prayer is of no use!ADAMANTAAcross 20: Community programme involves university lecture about electrical resistanceOUTREACHAAcross 22: Scotty, perhaps, imprisoned by Vulcan in engine roomCANINEAAcross 23: Experimentally, it's nicest to team up with some top boffinsSCIENTISTSAAcross 24: Old South African or Danish physicist is heardBOERAAcross 25: Extremely small measurement causing Greek character to go without loveMICRONAAcross 26: A South Slav doing combinatorial analysis, not limbo dancingCROATIANDDown 1: Like Knox, perhaps, pair find the Ultimate AnswerFORTY-TWODDown 2: Light showing on the dial?BEAMDDown 3: Perhaps contacts the French about nuclear antagonistsLENSESDDown 4: Siemens starting to provide support for upcoming students making mistakesSLIPUPSDDown 5: In US dramatically increased despair spread about nuclear coreSPIRALEDDDown 6: Transport worker's course in laminar flowRAILWAY MANDDown 6: Transport worker's course in laminar flowRAILWAYMANDDown 7: Argentinian revolutionary conceals carbon which is emitting radiationACTIVEDDown 13: Long periods when engineering salary roseSOLARYEARSDDown 16: Making changes to American distributed array processor, no longer hot deviceADAPTINGDDown 18: Type of element that is unstable mostly and moltenNONMETALDDown 19: Study of matter, energy and gas reportedly turning science upside downPHYSICSDDown 21: Get something straight: society needs free petroleum!UNCOILDDown 22: Many large moons oddly observed in the universeCOSMOSDDown 24: Graduate's written about alien constellation's second starBETA