The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 16th May 2012 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 16th May 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: See 15BEHINDAAcross 4: Fiddle with good seafoodSCAMPIAAcross 9: See 15FROMAAcross 10: Commentary on work, as fine England football manager goes in frontBOOK REVIEWAAcross 11: Endless limitation for Scottish authorBARRIEAAcross 12: Switch that is live feeding idea that's vulgarPLEBEIANAAcross 13: Barking, a headless dog turns with a barkANGOSTURAAAcross 15: Difficult for me entering valley with deer to finish eventually in frontCOMEAAcross 16: See 5BEEFAAcross 17: Supreme singer remains captivating in a novel, Austen's firstDIANAROSSAAcross 21: Perhaps eight to nine American hospitals, where abroad, cutting rightsRUSH HOURAAcross 22: Chairman smothering me in fish, change for adulteressMADAMEAAcross 24: Cunning in people chasing long animal like a weaselPINE MARTENAAcross 25: Cut hydrogen by itself?GASHAAcross 26: Eastern s-states in the papersESSAYSAAcross 27: Continue to write about northern flagPENNONDDown 1: Pub requiring profit, say goodbye?BARGAINDDown 2: Devil of a poet's on for the yellow fellowHOMERDDown 3: Most distinguished head's taken over in caseNOBLESTDDown 5: Food in a tin has been forced outCORNEDDDown 6: Give ground feeding cow? Popcorn aficionado!MOVIEGOERDDown 7: Repeat a passage of writer, a teacherITERATEDDown 8: The price for police security while you sleep, might you say, in compound?COPPERNITRATEDDown 14: See 23ONESHEELSDDown 16: Gold variable in taste — here's aluminium oreBAUXITEDDown 18: Unable to find coal then? English candidateNOMINEEDDown 19: See 2SIMPSONDDown 20: See 22BOVARYDDown 23: Be stubborn while competing at tug-of-war?DIG IN