The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 17th May 2024 There are 16 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 17th May 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: It loves most precipitous hill startsOOMPHAAcross 10: Pacific islands object about having to accept English waysMELANESIAAAcross 11: Revolutionary phase – article gets time wrongTHETERRORAAcross 12: Unlikely Oscar for ‘Killers Working Together’ORCASAAcross 13: Attackers of Republican supportersRAIDERSAAcross 15: Nothing gets over pass ahead of northern cityLINCOLNAAcross 17: Secret clubs don’t prevailCLOSEAAcross 18: StatecraftARKAAcross 18: StatecraftARK.AAcross 20: Queen’s favourite element: congressESSEXAAcross 22: Moon-like ring associated with tribal revelryORBITALAAcross 25: Thumb prodded into awkward person in government departmentCUSTOMSAAcross 26: Republic locks king out – ‘It’s over!’HAITIAAcross 27: Bigwig hides underwear (surprise!) right in instrumentVIBRAHARPAAcross 30: Debauched feature of corgi a sticking-pointORGIASTICAAcross 31: Southern food plantsSPIESDDown 1: Military officer guarding extra-large strayLOSTDDown 2: One’s favourite island has vitality that’s contagiousIMPETIGODDown 3: Old-style, you extracted teeth (not top)THEEDDown 4: Continent holding back world money – delightful stuff!AMBROSIADDown 5: A pull-out includes recipe, more than one in factPLURALDDown 6: Meetings to resist cutting measuresENCOUNTERSDDown 7: Foreign spy ring confiscates church filmPSYCHODDown 8: ‘Aspects of vice’ lecturesJAWSDDown 13: Toulouse-Lautrec took content that’s oddly-numberedRECTODDown 14: Airline holds suitable IC cert. for a type of energyELECTRICALDDown 16: Informal footwear on one backward holiday islandNAXOSDDown 19: Give up rugby player as a sweetenerKICK BACKDDown 19: Give up rugby player as a sweetenerKICKBACKDDown 21: Irregular Roman senate and people with nothing for queen on acid – deplorableSPORADICDDown 23: Watershed follows start of broadcast linkBRIDGEDDown 24: Live broadcast attempt is heartless frivolityLEVITYDDown 26: Peg trembled without a topHOOKDDown 28: Special lifts to be installed in hospital recessAPSEDDown 29: Society cuts bank jobPOST