The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd June 2017 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd June 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Shires financed unfairly, put beyond the possibility of democratic participationDISENFRANCHISEAAcross 8: Deputy officer in charge like Scottish chimney sweepLOCUMAAcross 9: Rogue captured by person pulling upBERATINGAAcross 11: The baddy — not he who operated as market trader?TROTTERAAcross 12: Little woman should keep home — pardon?AMNESTYAAcross 13: Cold? It's good to wear a hatALGIDAAcross 15: Item of armour wasn't disturbed, we hearHEADPIECEAAcross 17: Heavenly pair work ship with two propellersTWINSCREWAAcross 20: 12 — time held to be impracticableNOTONAAcross 21: Delay with our lot trapped in shedSUSPENDAAcross 23: Naturalist to attack feature of Genesis flood story, audiblyLAMARCKAAcross 25: Show home to fail as accommodation for petINDICATEAAcross 26: Africans only half loathe AmericaHAUSAAAcross 27: What the state sector is doing, providing residential areasHOUSINGESTATESDDown 1: Pretty girl, embracing one Latvian worker, is like an amateurDILETTANTISHDDown 2: Thus floor a perverted personSICKODDown 3: Worms army chaps pulled up — poetic thingsNEMATODESDDown 4: What could make one brighter, with suffering finally gone?REBIRTHDDown 5: Grandma around one beginning to rest, very blissful stateNIRVANADDown 6: Flirt greeting the fashionistas!HITONDDown 7: Seen to be dotty, having whiff, getting oldSENESCENTDDown 10: "The thin form I have!", said lingerie modelMYLEENEKLASSDDown 14: Lad is struggling with song that has rapid succession of notesGLISSANDODDown 16: An Asian nurse in simple summer head coveringPANAMA HATDDown 18: Constituency boundaries will be — bloody harsh on Corbyn, ultimately?REDRAWNDDown 19: Fish in passage you and I must catchWALLEYEDDown 22: Wicked folk losing head and what they are capable ofEVILSDDown 24: Head of state in defeat creating stirROUST