The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 26th July 2000 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 26th July 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Last year's winner not skating - he's got a jobOFFICEHOLDERAAcross 8: Work to amuse the audience could be an illusionOPTICALAAcross 9: Emphatically he who could be Flemish...HIMSELFAAcross 11: ... was successful about greeting in pseudo-French, not FlemishWALLOONAAcross 12: River of silence, with name among the namelessSHANNONAAcross 13: Grandma pregnant? She must be kidding!NANNYAAcross 14: Resident's home with Dickens's leader and servantINDWELLERAAcross 16: Application for cooking meat in church councilTREATMENTAAcross 19: Nick a second duckSTEALAAcross 21: I - my husband also - need break with continuityBUSMANSAAcross 23: See 21HOLIDAYAAcross 24: Ancient city time insufficient, I'm afraid, among single characters at liberty: we purchase only secondsTHEBESTAAcross 25: See 24AREFREEAAcross 26: See 24THINGSINLIFEDDown 1: Bunting from church door to lancet windowORTOLANDDown 2: See 22FACTORYDDown 3: It appears in the spring of an antelope in a moving startCELANDINEDDown 4: Laughs like dry moatsHAHASDDown 5: Shearers' party hit the hayLAMBALEDDown 6: 10 with real potential never finishingETERNALDDown 7: Bookmaker required? I doubt itYOUWANTTOBETDDown 10: Playtime for piano among stringed instruments, final heatsFUNERALPYRESDDown 15: Wife and child I leave in agricultural buildingDUTCHBARNDDown 17: He slept, wrongly, with Scots girlELSPETHDDown 18: Following notes in following part-exchangeTRADE-INDDown 19: Romance in a long dress was said to have finished MozartSALIERIDDown 20: Back at last - steed wouldn't startENDORSEDDown 22: What makes widows at 10 good enough?SATIS