The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 13th May 2015 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 13th May 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Increase open cargo boat's atmospheric illumination?UPLIGHTERAAcross 10: Magnify one's end many times overEXTOLAAcross 11: Half-square key with a movement in need of oilingSQUEAKYAAcross 12: Tramp's boxing arena rebuilt with tin — you can't get lower than thatMARIANAAAcross 13: Speak highly of no power boostRAISEAAcross 14: Histrionics forced earldom into a reduced stateMELODRAMAAAcross 16: Meeting place of California's Plates MovementSAN ANDREAS FAULTAAcross 19: County Kerry: so lax about greetingYORKSHIREAAcross 21: Nosey creature's salt-covered "eye"TAPIRAAcross 22: They're thumping mad?BONKERSAAcross 23: A Loire variation on a flowering shrubOLEARIAAAcross 24: Subject to image being reducedTOPICAAcross 25: Where to get tanked up with pro at end of the play area?FORECOURTDDown 1: Greek character, awfully gross — heavens, it's a man of music!MUSSORGSKYDDown 2: "I live with soul in torment" misconceptionILLUSIONDDown 3: Start off a captain of industry, related on the male sideAGNATEDDown 4: Brace of salmon's source? British riverSTAYDDown 5: Announce Portugal's heaving with ’emPROMULGATEDDown 6: Understand "fiord" is rendered as "ditch"GET RID OFDDown 7: Greek island with a cat that's externally weightlessITHACADDown 8: Feel a bit sorry for trifleFLEADDown 14: Manages to get issue to a union?MARRIESOFFDDown 15: Persistent sensation of behind getting smackAFTERTASTEDDown 17: Beginning to sound like Scottish lacking in brains?NASCENCEDDown 18: Superior cleavage that could stun youUPPERCUTDDown 20: They usually precede deliveries of cultivated PrunusRUNUPSDDown 21: See 12TRENCHDDown 22: See 8BITEDDown 23: Former Hollywood studio turned up a lady's fingersOKRA