The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st May 2019 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st May 2019. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Feature of Trump and PM putting the Queen offTHATCHAAcross 4: Takes apart splinter group in contemptuous talkDISSECTSAAcross 9: Building block of wood, what's backed with board in portASHLARAAcross 10: Able to move quickly for a take-off in an emergencySCRAMBLEAAcross 11: Old Testament book's terribly crude and emotionalDEUTERONOMICALAAcross 13: Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic propertiesMANDRAGORAAAcross 14: Worry when study is neglected in research establishmentCERNAAcross 16: One of two Nobel physicists said to swankBRAGAAcross 18: Figures in trouble at sea, reportedly Germanic folkRECTANGLESAAcross 21: Disappoint others giving first instruction to unload the truck?LETTHESIDEDOWNAAcross 23: Sunday cruciverbalist, maybe, who has cutting edge?SWORDMANAAcross 24: Symphony offering racy stuff (not Beethoven's Fourth)EROICAAAcross 25: Last thing you want in head and on collar?DANDRUFFAAcross 26: Commercial to air in busy shopping seasonADVENTDDown 1: Person who is horrible, just a bit, about nothingTOADDDown 2: A short song about aged GreekACHAEANDDown 3: Fellow curtly abandoning diocese and ecclesiastical groupsCHAPTERSDDown 5: One caught entering square reprimanded, treated as trash?INCINERATEDDDown 6: Being obsequious would put Mrs May offSMARMYDDown 7: Small room, not half brilliant for accommodating superior writerCUBICLEDDown 8: Renders Happy Birthday, say, with nicely introduced bumpsSWELLINGSDDown 12: Untidy employees making a contribution to Warwickshire's coat of armsRAGGEDSTAFFDDown 13: Crowd is idle, wandering round, to be got goingMOBILISEDDDown 15: Lacking special apparel, knight is thrown out, not admiredUNADOREDDDown 17: What could play music in particular key, hard stuffALTHORNDDown 19: Towel I'd discarded, when lots of bits are dryLOW TIDEDDown 20: Bit of paper stuck on yellow garment worn by some womenCHADORDDown 22: Like school pupil sounding unrelaxedTAUT