The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 13th September 2000 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 13th September 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Conservative - first member to join afresh in game - was most often 12 9CHAMPIONJOCKEYAAcross 9: See 12THEPOSTAAcross 10: Ascribe unrest to Italian cityBRESCIAAAcross 11: Black note held by fiddlerNEGROAAcross 12: "Winner takes all" - see complete article in "Bugle Call"FIRSTPASTAAcross 13: Lebanese Christians make horses go round on itMARONITESAAcross 14: Pooh's work for the Guardian? The answer's in the soilHUMUSAAcross 15: Too much to be paid to international body?UNDUEAAcross 17: Girth of one embracing the United Reform ChurchSURCINGLEAAcross 20: The last people to enter anything as quality assurance?ENDOWMENTAAcross 22: Begin wild partyBINGEAAcross 23: Finch to mediate on what to write withCHEWINKAAcross 24: Gallery would shortly be having boards for ventilationLOUVREDAAcross 25: Think differently about German composer's role reversal: 17, say?KNIGHT BACHELORDDown 1: Tom and Jerry's performance passed by anti-suffragettesCATANDMOUSEACTDDown 2: Fury in Bremerhaven, GermanyAVENGERDDown 3: Word of a sort the church has to utterPRONOUNCEDDown 4: Excluded by Oxford to conform?OUT OF ITDDown 5: Injection of Irish-American waders from BrazilJABIRUSDDown 6: It isn't fair to give temperature in CelsiusCHEATDDown 7: Cry over what was staked by former partnerEXCLAIMDDown 8: King's head fits awkwardly with fireguardFAITHSDEFENDERDDown 14: Head start for image enhancer or head sweeper?HAIRBRUSHDDown 16: Useless fellow gone off in a huffDUDGEONDDown 17: Likedown Jerry, slippery customers climb over little TomSLEEKITDDown 18: Agent of typhus with fatal reproductionRATFLEADDown 19: Real time left to the publicGENERALDDown 21: Get rid of the liquid sound of the bellsWRING