The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 27th June 2012 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 27th June 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Slender and supple, is going to experience desire without loveWILLOWISHAAcross 10: Kind of 25 half-heartedly put in penCORALAAcross 11: Like 8 but not 25 in one game, it follows 8 and 25 in anotherBLACKAAcross 12: Spice to eat, spread over old vegetable dishMACEDOINEAAcross 13: Establishes one's position in store after reorganisationORIENTSAAcross 14: One metre used in variety of basic verseIAMBICSAAcross 17: As you're speaking, this goes overheadAZUREAAcross 19: Some work contributing, either way, to greater goodERGAAcross 20: Settle what's not seriousLIGHTAAcross 21: Revise the tale for 8 (20 or 27), perhapsATHLETEAAcross 22: Article absorbed by players before another gameCANASTAAAcross 24: Part of explosive mixture shattering steel trapSALTPETREAAcross 26: Heartless husband pinching ring, a scoundrelHOUNDAAcross 28: Spent a pound, getting nothing in returnALL INAAcross 29: One cuts off electricity at home — our last resortINSULATORDDown 1: Directions sailor needed to clean deckSWABDDown 2: A large and violent goddess that reacts with 6ALKALIDDown 3: Means to connect scientist, as well as the writer, to listenersHOOK AND EYEDDown 4: Test material that shows up in final? It mustLITMUSDDown 5: Vivid colour of hair covering key personSHOCKINGDDown 6: Something helpful containing cold, so-called drugACIDDDown 7: British union leader in revolt, turning 11 and 8BRUISINGDDown 8: See 19 downBLUEDDown 13: It's in Oklahoma, Hawaii … and NebraskaOMAHADDown 15: One calmly adapted, accepting husband 8MELANCHOLYDDown 16: Religious work faculty outside university's taken upSUTRADDown 18: In evil fashion one's trapped in a French treeUNHOLILYDDown 19: Choose king that is holding strange club, male counterpart of 5 25?ELECTRICDDown 22: Danish 8, for example, that's said to make one smileCHEESEDDown 23: Small dog, by day's end, is 8SMUTTYDDown 24: Reversed crazy attempt to 25STABDDown 25: See 5PINKDDown 27: Gloomy coastguard's last on rescue vesselDARK