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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 3rd May 2012

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 3rd May 2012. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Huge prophet passes slowly through a barrier
AAcross 5: Increase of status within university publisher
AAcross 9: Give up supporting game
AAcross 10: Where to obtain luxury fabrics freeATLIBERTY
AAcross 11: ___ but they can't fly in this bit of the farmyard!
AAcross 12: "We don't want you here!" (That sounds like Oxford, maybe)
AAcross 14: A tinted menu — somehow it's amusing and instructive
AAcross 18: One has conjured a vision: Adam and Eve with hair unkemptIHAVEADREAM
AAcross 21: River of Eden towards the end
AAcross 22: A peck, maybe, is what you get with dull old dance
AAcross 25: One girl about to be grabbed by unwanted person expects the worst
AAcross 26: The man in pub rejected treatment for alcoholics?
AAcross 27: Poem in English — suggestion there's nothing good in it
AAcross 28: A Red felt almost out of place in the Union?
DDown 1: Not liking formality in the workplace
DDown 2: Bird trying to keep a low profile when interrupted by the man of 18
DDown 3: Irish operator is such a person in trade
DDown 4: Country ending with debts and distress
DDown 5: Reckon copper in visit gets scoffed
DDown 6: Father of four confessing 18
DDown 7: Child that is clothed in cut cloth
DDown 8: Port making one move the facial muscles?
DDown 13: Maybe Bristol politician getting exposed is not suffering any damage
DDown 15: Wreck a French winter coat crossing Germany
DDown 16: City presenting huge temptation for gardenerBIGAPPLE
DDown 17: Party song going round America
DDown 19: See 2
DDown 20: It's said to be very short ’orticultural book
DDown 23: Special symbol must be suitable with national award being set up
DDown 24: See 2
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