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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..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Composer of 23's "fine and private place", embracing a total reversalTHEAMUSGRAVE
AAcross 8: City governed by thug
AAcross 9: Heads of ulna and tibia extracted from beautiful broken bones
AAcross 11: Back of Alton Towers changing direction
AAcross 12: Trendy — right-on at heart — yet enduring
AAcross 13: Last bit of face powder turned to striking effect
AAcross 14: Dull paper about Hitler's rewritten
AAcross 16: Highly influential, if admitted to part of penultimate round
AAcross 19: Poet finding way round Luxembourg
AAcross 21: Family member dropping head case
AAcross 23: Wonderland minus/plus poet?
AAcross 24: Child, originally gentle, disturbed by lack of attention
AAcross 25: Shirt — 2 ÷ 1,000?
AAcross 26: A cur ill-disposed to get into festivity — more so than usual
DDown 1: Shoot nurse with endless stream
DDown 2: Caustic electronic mouse, maybe
DDown 3: Homunculus's missile?
DDown 4: Mystic cheerleader, albeit American, upliftedSUFIC
DDown 5: Hour in which ethnic group rises for fresh start
DDown 6: Fringe of troubled enclave
DDown 7: Honest genius ditching one misguided one?
DDown 10: Flower arrangement of Eliza Doolittle's second to be interrupted by school, twice
DDown 15: Hero from Biblical kingdom (Eastern) turning up in list
DDown 17: Compiler's seaweed absorbing compiler's pain
DDown 18: Snow White, say, is quick to suppress anger
DDown 19: Reader's country home shortly erected
DDown 20: Spike Milligan initially standing in vote for something useful
DDown 22: Bluestocking's secret weapon
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