The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 6th August 2015 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 6th August 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Forest-dweller needs to feed, tucking into fruitGREAT APEAAcross 5: Problem about electronic gadgets may be so describedHI-TECHAAcross 9: Art of oriental love doctor getting mate for foreignerORIGAMIAAcross 10: The Man in Black drops chorusREFRAINAAcross 11: The sound of the bullringTORUSAAcross 12: Notice truth's obstructed by opening of show trialADVERSITYAAcross 13: Going disguised to unseemlier cross-Channel spectacleSONETLUMIEREAAcross 17: Journalists united in opposing the 4?FOURTH ESTATEAAcross 20: We're told a letter and a number as well, a number in the 20sTEAFORTWOAAcross 22: Last of Arapaho, wise old AmericanOSAGEAAcross 23: English fellow's outside, flushed from the west windMEANDERAAcross 24: An attempt is ultimately futile to defend New LabourAGONISEAAcross 25: Introductions to Shakespeare plays present in The GlobeSPHEREAAcross 26: Evidence of a complaint uttered offended the Catholic ChurchSYNDROMEDDown 1: Cave painter captures river but not currentGROTTODDown 2: Terrible regime, or its victimEMIGREDDown 3: Delight as one's excused from school gamesTRANSPORTDDown 4: Overprices tat that's flogged where profit's sought?PRIVATESECTORDDown 6: Conclude there's no getting out of hellINFERDDown 7: He'll investigate cleaver turned up by diggerEXAMINERDDown 8: Extremely edgy contest after hand's shaking and on buzzerHONEYBEEDDown 10: Mistress turned out in a fancy coat of ruby redREVOLUTIONARYDDown 14: Crash diet, nothing more, to get heavenly bodyMETEOROIDDDown 15: Old newspapers using old-fashioned speech, frequentlyOFTTIMESDDown 16: Clue regularly getting cheers — it's to be very stylish!CUTADASHDDown 18: Place for better business, keeping equally popularCASINODDown 19: Worship Araucaria, say, with a quarter going for Paul in the US?REVEREDDown 21: Nun's in one skirt but no topORDER