The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 14th May 2018 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 14th May 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Tides swirling round end of bus stopDESISTAAcross 4: Try to get friend into new art and old Marian hymn musicSTABATAAcross 9: Couple stealing gold from home helperPAIRAAcross 10: Money given to fourth in line, say, for propertyREAL ESTATEAAcross 11: Round clubs for the old manCHUBBYAAcross 12: Let down by legal document about apartmentDEFLATEDAAcross 13: Cruel and pointed remark by one born in late March?BARBARIANAAcross 15: Accommodation for archaeologists?DIGSAAcross 16: Part of the Koran found in ancient city in Saudi ArabiaSURAAAcross 17: One travelling out to north GermanyPASSENGERAAcross 21: Itinerant magician's prop turned King Edward into Queen Elizabeth!WANDERERAAcross 22: Drink, one way and another, leads to disturbanceRUMPUSAAcross 24: Craftsman means to groom his boySTONEMASONAAcross 25: Ass featured in ancient witchcraftTWITAAcross 26: River bird may be a record holderDEEJAYAAcross 27: Soldiers leaving train for another kind of transportHEARSEDDown 1: Excitement about Switzerland's old silver coinDRACHMADDown 2: Cancel subscription to protect creditorSCRUBDDown 3: Streetwise leader's entreaty to graffiti artist?SPRAYERDDown 5: Upper-class chap snorting drugs to get things goingTEE OFFDDown 5: Upper-class chap snorting drugs to get things goingTEEOFFDDown 6: Taliban to become an army unitBATTALIONDDown 7: Pre-rest, naughty child moves unsteadilyTOTTERSDDown 8: Vehicles, one after another, carrying assistance, turned up to support a major medical emergencyCARDIAC ARRESTDDown 14: Damaged car banned in social eventBARN DANCEDDown 16: Set up celebrity with young man from the fiftiesSTARTEDDDown 18: Sergeant abroad missing English rumSTRANGEDDown 19: European charged outside America is difficult to catchELUSIVEDDown 20: Atrocity committed on a field of battle?CRIMEADDown 23: See 4MATER