The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 25th July 2000 There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 25th July 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: The cure that's 'Buy now, pay later!' - their failingRETAILTHERAPYAAcross 10: Birdie surpassed by Coleridge's handicap ...ALBATROSSAAcross 11: ... he's right by his sacred riverRALPHAAcross 12: Beer from the cask, Vassili!KVASSAAcross 13: Baseball player in knickers and vestSHORT-STOPAAcross 13: Baseball player in knickers and vestSHORTSTOPAAcross 14: Time Ed Lear went off his rockerTREADLEAAcross 16: Movement of cattle is turning southKINESISAAcross 18: Call for melon in the freezerCRYOGENAAcross 20: Society leaving partisan destroyed portTRAPANIAAcross 21: The old revel in the black bat's reignNIGHTRULEAAcross 23: So Milton's pair of sirens left without choiceBLESTAAcross 24: Old type of road stoneMETALAAcross 25: I'm one Mr Hulot, on as a substituteIMITATIONAAcross 26: I might make allowances, possibly starting now. God! My pennies!SPENDING MONEYDDown 2: Nobbling race outsider could be right by meEMBRACERYDDown 3: Lowest female staff membersALTOSDDown 4: Give the once-over once or twice?LOOKSEEDDown 5: Has hit support for the supplicantHASSOCKDDown 6: Land of royal double trouble.RURITANIADDown 7: Director of experimental (in-flight) movie?PILOTDDown 8: Friedman's forces restoring credit to make moneyMARKET ECONOMYDDown 9: 1's acolyte seconds that passion, perhapsSHOP ASSISTANTDDown 15: Like libretto's language, not a prescription to stir the heartDIGITALINDDown 17: Bad septicaemia killing last two in the continuumSPACE-TIMEDDown 19: Sea creatures Athena utilised by extractionNAUTILIDDown 20: Putting one's quarry at bay, say!TREEINGDDown 22: Gathering everything together under protest, starts to riseGET UPDDown 22: Gathering everything together under protest, starts to riseGETUPDDown 23: Could this be a negative bender?BEANO