The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 26th April 2017 There are 16 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 26th April 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Lovebirds catching one painful inflammationOTITISAAcross 5: Lack of talent excluding a privileged groupNOBILITYAAcross 9: Swimming seal, then, is somewhere in the AtlanticSTHELENAAAcross 10: Stream with no ebbing waveBECKONAAcross 11: Extremists ejected from industrial action in the capitalOSLOAAcross 12: Slimmer's cheese in regional contestLOCALDERBYAAcross 13: A French African free from ropesUNMOORAAcross 14: Guardian's to hold back, holding backDEFENDERAAcross 16: What might appeal to cannibal or neoliberalFRIEDMANAAcross 19: Shady borders of lime, in which I'm sufferingLOUCHEAAcross 21: Not charging, in a position like York's welcoming hotelONTHEHOUSEAAcross 23: On-screen feature suggesting that Apple's ripping you off?ICONAAcross 24: Frosted desserts, the second sent backICEDUPAAcross 25: Work accepted by Poirot: a robbery with a twistORATORIOAAcross 26: Butcher's cut and run, nursing case of lumbagoESCALOPEAAcross 27: Silver service's passed round for youthNONAGEDDown 2: Unartistic sound engineering a bloody tragedy!TITUSANDRONICUSDDown 3: Unevenness in pitch? English right back has second lookTREMOLODDown 4: One's beaten horse, stifling liberal spiritSTEEL DRUMDDown 5: Subtle introduction to Nietzsche foxed a dunceNUANCEDDDown 6: President engaged in vacuously boastful clamourBABELDDown 7: Chosen to strip off, servicemen stand before the faithfulLECTERNDDown 8: In London district, foreign cash goes on drug providing a fixTROUBLESHOOTINGDDown 15: Lands a few blows in a deceptively promising periodFALSEDAWNDDown 17: Insectivore concealed in cane abroadECHIDNADDown 18: Nobody imprisons half a continent in cellNEURONEDDown 20: College study, including reading, is a fabulous thingUNICORNDDown 22: Beast one very quietly smuggled into houseHIPPO