The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st May 2016 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st May 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Writer's way to address monarch, hiding expression of distasteMAUGHAMAAcross 5: Bottle, or something Dutchman can get from oneCOURAGEAAcross 9: See 25BROWNAAcross 10: Old movie idol opposed to drink and to inn, oddlyVALENTINOAAcross 11: Prime text I revised for document someone going may needEXITPERMITAAcross 12: Foremost of brews served in miniature beer mugTOBYAAcross 14: Work of 1 across mentioned in speech of 12 26CAKESANDALEAAcross 18: Chief's equal, it's said, as source of 14SHAKESPEAREAAcross 21: Finishes off eclair, gateau, scones and rock cakeRUSKAAcross 22: Has recollections about cars, not sweet in retrospectREMINISCESAAcross 25: Former PMs, choice of some at party gathering?NEWCASTLEAAcross 26: Rude noise as part of rebel chantBELCHAAcross 27: Source of Scotch — produced glass, we hear, in light colourSKY-BLUEAAcross 28: Kind of bun, besides, being dunked?CHELSEADDown 1: Crowded around doctor going around old baseMOBBEDDDown 2: Most of drink I consumed in university area, ideal placeUTOPIADDown 3: Passed over tool specially chosenHANDPICKEDDDown 4: Person not keeping still after first of moonshine's finishedMOVERDDown 5: Part of Atlantic that's cold, with ice least dispersedCELTICSEADDown 6: Makes, as we hear, containers with taps for serving drinksURNSDDown 7: Arid zone endlessly north of an inhabitant of stateARIZONANDDown 8: Novelist writes, in a way, for well-adapted groupsECOTYPESDDown 13: Drunkenly dine with bun and ale? SureUNDENIABLEDDown 15: Asian money that is securing saucy neckwearKIPPERTIEDDown 16: Frantically trains, for instance, group of top RussiansTSARINASDDown 17: With reason, soundly consider road that's raisedCAUSEWAYDDown 19: Kind of cake found in old book, cut by 50%ECCLESDDown 20: Inconclusively ask the man what's problem with expiration?ASTHMADDown 23: Belonging to part of digestive system some bile activatesILEACDDown 24: Oatmeal cake, to considerable extent, leftFARL