The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 16th April 2014 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 16th April 2014. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Composer of 23's "fine and private place", embracing a total reversalTHEAMUSGRAVEAAcross 8: City governed by thugRANGOONAAcross 9: Heads of ulna and tibia extracted from beautiful broken bonesFIBULAEAAcross 11: Back of Alton Towers changing directionNOR'-WESTAAcross 12: Trendy — right-on at heart — yet enduringCHRONICAAcross 13: Last bit of face powder turned to striking effectECLATAAcross 14: Dull paper about Hitler's rewrittenMIRTHLESSAAcross 16: Highly influential, if admitted to part of penultimate roundSEMIFINALAAcross 19: Poet finding way round LuxembourgPLATHAAcross 21: Family member dropping head caseELATIVEAAcross 23: Wonderland minus/plus poet?MARVELLAAcross 24: Child, originally gentle, disturbed by lack of attentionNEGLECTAAcross 25: Shirt — 2 ÷ 1,000?DASHIKIAAcross 26: A cur ill-disposed to get into festivity — more so than usualPARTICULARLYDDown 1: Shoot nurse with endless streamTENDRILDDown 2: Caustic electronic mouse, maybeERODENTDDown 3: Homunculus's missile?MINUTEMANDDown 4: Mystic cheerleader, albeit American, upliftedSUFICDDown 5: Hour in which ethnic group rises for fresh startREBIRTHDDown 6: Fringe of troubled enclaveVALENCEDDown 7: Honest genius ditching one misguided one?FRANKENSTEINDDown 10: Flower arrangement of Eliza Doolittle's second to be interrupted by school, twiceESCHSCHOLZIADDown 15: Hero from Biblical kingdom (Eastern) turning up in listROLE MODELDDown 17: Compiler's seaweed absorbing compiler's painMYALGIADDown 18: Snow White, say, is quick to suppress angerFAIRESTDDown 19: Reader's country home shortly erectedPERUSERDDown 20: Spike Milligan initially standing in vote for something usefulAMENITYDDown 22: Bluestocking's secret weaponESTOC