The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 28th September 2000 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 28th September 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Shut up, being intimidated outwardly, in the byreCOWSHEDAAcross 5: Comparatively cheeky handFLIPPERAAcross 9: Marmalade's jejune, pointless, ridiculous - 2's trademarksJAMANDJERUSALEMAAcross 10: Golfing connectionsLINKSAAcross 11: Ulster was a tease, being foolishNITWITTEDAAcross 12: Change for a quid at the "Flag" from drinksDAIQUIRISAAcross 14: His Grace's related to 2 (round number)DUCALAAcross 15: Welles's "Golden Boy"ORSONAAcross 16: The "Jolly Fellow" - how gliders ascendTHERMALLYAAcross 18: PM at Morecambe knew the road to Wigan pierERIC BLAIRAAcross 21: One person's mathematical unitNEPERAAcross 22: The base and the elite to start making up?FOUNDATIONCREAMAAcross 23: What's gloomy about me - I can't concentrateDREAMERAAcross 24: Nigel, the writer, takes some damask from the brocadeBALCHINDDown 1: Enticed and inveigled by rotter, pretty one's gone missingCAJOLEDDDown 2: Indications this month I deplore in the Guardian that gave PM a hard timeWOMENSINSTITUTEDDown 3: A minimum of work on the clock?HANDSTURNDDown 4: On being taken from the keep I am placed in mustard cityDIJONDDown 5: Earnest acknowledgment among the trees at the endFORETASTEDDown 6: Setter's got his set - buzz off!IMSHIDDown 7: I accept help with soil management, which 2 didn't likePOLITICALSPEECHDDown 8: Stagger round defence ministry to change its structureREMODELDDown 13: In reference to the drawer, I withdrawRETRACTORDDown 14: The Lord's party, a small one, to call for curtailmentDOMINICALDDown 15: Stuffed a complete American policemanOVERFEDDDown 17: British policeman who does the marshalling?YARDMANDDown 19: Advice to girl if 'er boyfriend's shy? Turn down the light!BEDIMDDown 20: Take off your homburg and have a lozengeRHOMB