The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 26th June 2014 There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 26th June 2014. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Greatly respect the slough of publicity?ADMIREAAcross 4: Protection from rays — shell?SHADESAAcross 9: Lovely taste of food is hereDISHAAcross 10: Gut sac where eruption has me botheredPERITONEUMAAcross 11: 9 of squiffy dwarves?POTTEDAAcross 12: Bomber returning friendless — then happy?ENOLAGAYAAcross 13: Peas — unknown quantity devoured by boy, a game backfiring!GARBANZOSAAcross 15: Weapons costing an arm and a leg pinched by Carry On starSIDEAAcross 16: Altogether an expertBUFFAAcross 17: Distance between roads most extraordinarySTRANGESTAAcross 21: 9 sliced up, that is something to eatCUTIEPIEAAcross 22: A tapering structure, longASPIREAAcross 24: Meat 9, beginning to catch something burnt, acquires treatmentCUMBERLANDAAcross 25: See 15ARMSAAcross 26: Taste fish, including last of tunnyTRY OUTAAcross 26: Taste fish, including last of tunnyTRYOUTAAcross 27: Disease like that restricts young people for startersTYPHUSDDown 1: A house unseen on skyline over a US stateARIZONADDown 2: Nonsense that's going to this setter's head?MYHATDDown 3: Writer, not entirely enthralled by French sculptor, forced to help outROPEDINDDown 5: Powerful car stolen with pistolHOT-RODDDown 5: Powerful car stolen with pistolHOTRODDDown 6: Girl gripped by consumption sound as a bell?DINGALINGDDown 7: See 24SAUSAGEDDown 8: Rehydrate food after processing — that's what we're going to doORDER OF THE DAYDDown 14: Super to travel north, if by an unlikely link between oceansBAFFIN BAYDDown 16: Fight, having boxed that Spanish nose!BOUQUETDDown 18: Break off one of sevenAWAYDAYDDown 19: See 11SHRIMPSDDown 20: Disposable vessel neither opens nor closes — that's illuminatingAPERCUDDown 23: 9 of fruit?PEACH