The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 19th April 2013 There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 19th April 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Uncle Arthur protecting FrankCLEARAAcross 10: Pickled in ethanol without delayONTHENAILAAcross 11: Tour leader who sorts things out for the touristTRAVELLERAAcross 12: Suspicious of your slippery character, on reflectionLEERYAAcross 13: Slob in local knocked back bevvyBOOZE-UPAAcross 15: Spread Prohibition to Sleepy HollowBANQUETAAcross 17: Have young wife to provide assistanceWHELPAAcross 18: Caress girl, hitting the mark preciselyPATAAcross 20: Nod your heads off and humODOURAAcross 22: Frequently short of soft paper in gentsSQUIRESAAcross 25: Worst part about other papers for Guardian readers?LEFTIESAAcross 26: Brazilian footballer's extremely overrated as folk heroROBINAAcross 27: Kind of plays on words without beginning to get trickyUNSELFISHAAcross 30: It won't work in dry places, unfortunatelyCLEPSYDRAAAcross 31: Bash comicBEANODDown 1: Secret of behaving badly and escaping punishmentSCOTDDown 2: Much less vicious, less hard individualLET ALONEDDown 3: See 1FREEDDown 4: It may help medicine go down, inserted into openingLOLLIPOPDDown 5: In a state of excitement as edges of dressing gown fall awayATHROBDDown 6: Time to employ lifelong forte for dressing downTELLINGOFFDDown 7: Foodstuff consumed in most of France at one timeGATEAUDDown 8: Perhaps banks lending capital make a killingSLAYDDown 13: Ed heard loud shoutsBAWLSDDown 14: Lost nerve and skillEXPERTNESSDDown 16: The noise of the bullringTORUSDDown 19: Fundamentalists preferring heartless sadism over British charmTALISMANDDown 21: Master said individual spirit is to be stifledORIGINALDDown 23: Organs found in jumble salesUMBLESDDown 24: Twenty-four hours without a soundSTURDYDDown 26: Artist starts to colour you blueRACYDDown 28: Left order for portion of liverLOBEDDown 29: See 26 across'HOODDDown 29: See 26 acrossHOOD