The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 11th April 2018 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 11th April 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Climax that's close, if in posh hot pantsPHOTO FINISHAAcross 9: Maybe Irishman gathering lily in bowerCELLISTAAcross 10: Low walls queen knocked over in burial placePYRAMIDAAcross 11: Overseer of colony's alarmed cry, breaking pagerBEEKEEPERAAcross 12: Not a sound president backing Arabian kingdomSHEBAAAcross 13: Land bordering northern coveGENTAAcross 14: Make impure drug, cutting what mature people payADULTERATEAAcross 16: Misery, as loot gets leftSPOILSPORTAAcross 19: Current ebbing for a changeEDITAAcross 21: Flowering shrub with flower changing handsBROOMAAcross 22: Happen to find terrapins at seaTRANSPIREAAcross 24: Heroin imported by organised crime, a monstrous thingCHIMERAAAcross 25: During onset of violence, agreed to be called upINVOKEDAAcross 26: Sell fruit outside of Dieppe for everyoneTOUTLEMONDEDDown 1: A boring dim person interested in being a scientistPALAEONTOLOGISTDDown 2: Suppose it's round and longOPINEDDown 3: Love fish, eating best marine creatureOCTOPODDDown 4: Perhaps, like Napoleon, avoiding a riskIMPERILDDown 5: Streams of people arriving like baby Moses?INRUSHESDDown 6: Working man's marched like an emblem of his kind?HAMMER AND SICKLEDDown 7: What phsyio may use to kill yak making ascentICE BAGDDown 8: Daughter admitted to knowing online programsADWAREDDown 15: Female left male lover carrying a torchFLAMBEAUDDown 16: Caribbean tree in Cuba is developedSABICUDDown 17: Spooner's to install curtain? It's a potential dangerPITFALLDDown 18: It could be Mailer's approach to literatureREALISMDDown 20: Tense and feeble, like the rural upper classesTWEEDYDDown 23: Number that's square, like four or sixteenSEVEN