The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th October 2000 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th October 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Indecent exhibitions seen through tinted glassesBLUESPECTACLESAAcross 9: He takes something out of old farm vehicleEXTRACTORAAcross 10: Condescend to sound like a foreignerDEIGNAAcross 11: Lift is warm on the outsideHOISTAAcross 12: Duck with very strong heart is not quite in the middleOFFCENTREAAcross 13: Unpractical person laying scheme on tableIDEALISTAAcross 14: Not there to see sailors with net outABSENTAAcross 17: Be opposed to the endOBJECTAAcross 19: The Spanish can nip back to the topPINNACLEAAcross 22: Foreshadow a silent tear, perhapsADUMBRATEAAcross 24: Moulding solo voice partly in the wrong wayOVOLOAAcross 25: Return, for example, no article from Italian cityGENOAAAcross 26: Outstanding professional first met in oriental book?PROMINENTAAcross 27: Too accomplished a speaker for moral part to be wrongly construedPLATFORMORATORDDown 1: Fruit of battle to get round mountainsBLENHEIMORANGEDDown 2: Open out by ordering tun - sherry, perhaps?UNTWINEDDown 3: Fashionable drink first consumed by one trying to be cleverSMARTALECDDown 4: Turned out to be right sort, bursting into flowerEXTRORSEDDown 5: Squabble about Arabic list of customs' dutiesTARIFFDDown 6: Anxiety about deuterium nucleusCADREDDown 7: Record is let out in letterEPISTLEDDown 8: Receiving treatment in accordance with article by physician?UNDERTHEDOCTORDDown 15: Soldier losing head rashly after veto on shoulder beltBANDOLIERDDown 16: Send cable on creature that's a garden pestWIREWORMDDown 18: Newspaper diaryJOURNALDDown 20: Least ardent boy taking bird outCOOLESTDDown 21: Poetess making simpleton hop aboutSAPPHODDown 23: Brag about neckwear on the wayBOAST