The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd May 2024 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd May 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Group of golfers wearing small jumpers possibly getting temporary replacementsSTOPGAPSAAcross 5: Runs British cityBLEEDSAAcross 9: In Hollywood, John Barry, having had some music cut for soap?TOILETRYAAcross 10: Right for salesman to be on the counterPROPERAAcross 12: Promises royalty has regularly ignoredOATHSAAcross 13: Ban writer appearing after half 10PROSCRIBEAAcross 14: ABBA checking on volume before I adjusted it on SOS, for exampleABBREVIATIONAAcross 18: Perhaps Tommy Cooper’s opening in club working with top nameCONCEPT ALBUMAAcross 21: Rash promises to pay after Gold Card’s returned right awayAUDACIOUSAAcross 23: Tremble as the woman almost stripped nakedSHAKEAAcross 24: Elaborate partyLABOURAAcross 25: Brown enraged when losing two internationals, reveals IndependentSEPARATEAAcross 26: Cycle occasionally went in reverse – seriouslyDEEPLYAAcross 27: Lords powerless after this lot ultimately forming governmentSTEERAGEDDown 1: Porridge for one – mushy, moist and coldSITCOMDDown 2: Number one priority is always track events for startersOPIATEDDown 3: Your password shouldn’t be this fancy – iPad potentially skipping every timeGUESSABLEDDown 4: Vacuous prince on air – trips up revealing sweatPERSPIRATIONDDown 6: Emotional student joining year one class at the beginningLYRICDDown 7: Blue cross set in plastic tie clipEXPLICITDDown 8: Officer material getting a green beret, finallySERGEANTDDown 11: Recovering beers and Charlie confiscated by home for those with a habitCONVALESCENTDDown 15: Originally Alan Partridge maybe pulling faces in foolish endeavourAMUGSGAMEDDown 16: Hastily wrote long passage, making a drug into something that might be boringSCRAWLEDDDown 17: In retrospect feel Biden is somewhat unpalatableINEDIBLEDDown 19: Articles restricted by airline – one maybe in handBANANADDown 20: 25 centigrade’s close and hard to endureSEVEREDDown 22: One’s surly husband’s breaking windCHURL