The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd April 2013 There are 13 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd April 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Work in iron? It might have taken one to a Scottish forgeELOPEMENTAAcross 10: Yes, drink is said to get very coldICE UPAAcross 11: Two beasts that may get hot in the lightWOLFRAMAAcross 12: What's excited a fan — one TV show's brilliant writerTHESWANAAcross 13: Put up or knock down, might you say?RAISEAAcross 14: Propagandist's hard work, always penning articleSLOGANEERAAcross 16: This ginger ale he brewed for a national organisationENGLISHHERITAGEAAcross 19: Solver's beginning to face setter's linguistic tricks in a duel?SWORDPLAYAAcross 21: First hint of diddling — issue to make one resignDEMITAAcross 22: Famous Dutchman's tots are backwardERASMUSAAcross 23: Monster turning on a child with ruler? Not these days!TEACHERAAcross 24: Stirrer by and by must keep quietSPOONAAcross 25: In rally is talk off the cuff?IMPROVISEDDown 1: Clothes items? Girls wear ’em possibly, but not I!LEGWARMERSDDown 2: Mean deception in areas prone to flooding?LOW-LYINGDDown 3: Pilot's life's ending in ravineGEORGEDDown 4: Regular features of the grim academic sessionTERMDDown 5: Some of the stuff in W.H. Smith not shifting, reportedlySTATIONERYDDown 6: Bookish types having some wine in Boston at lunchtime?LITERATIDDown 7: Little bird in water twicePEEWEEDDown 8: Inhabitant of Madrid perhaps, not half crossSPANDDown 14: Pedagogue thus restricts little children, only one left in chargeSCHOLASTICDDown 15: Like old recording that sounds authentic, excessively so?REELTOREELDDown 17: Trendy theologian with rising reputation bound to be sought afterIN DEMANDDDown 18: After a jolly tea I start to rest in this?ARMCHAIRDDown 20: See 12OFAVONDDown 21: Persist as fiery characterDRAG ONDDown 21: Persist as fiery characterDRAGONDDown 22: Language not all readers enjoyERSEDDown 23: Hit — Engelbert's first recordTAPE