The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 10th January 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 10th January 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Bubbly cream may ease pain here?ONTHEBOILAAcross 10: Greatly admire ace illustratorADOREAAcross 11: A point made about old railway network needing to be up-to-dateABREASTAAcross 12: Focus of Bach's work that's given minimal coverage?G-STRINGAAcross 13: Sally is girl needing a head transplantRAIDAAcross 14: A hiker out to get ride possibly - man in a cap?KEIRHARDIEAAcross 15: Lager is drunk - port, tooALGIERSAAcross 17: Official to feel unwell, having got hit aboutBAILIFFAAcross 19: A street, ornate, in dull European cityMAASTRICHTAAcross 22: Senile state associated with repetitionGAGAAAcross 23: Sun disappearing? There's a wind from the southwestMONSOONAAcross 24: Attractive female given garland - learning to take the leadLORELEIAAcross 26: It's impracticable whichever way you look at itNOTONAAcross 27: The people here when functioning in a series of social eventsTHESEASONDDown 1: Crusading movement is back, with alarm spreading around in next to no timeMORALREARMAMENTDDown 2: First-class Scottish town, one displaced by EnglishSTERLINGDDown 3: Dairy product consumed by Muffet apparentlyFETADDown 4: Description of Brutus by Caesar just before his death in bare feet?BOOTLESSDDown 5: Member in non-drinking organisation right off beer?ALEGARDDown 6: Singers and actors given position on scale - all but "no good"CASTRATIDDown 7: Unoriginal dish includes fish? On the contraryCOPIEDDDown 8: Saluting a foe, one reintegrated into worldwide communityLEAGUE OF NATIONSDDown 16: English paper boys to be without round in the near future Gadzooks!EFTSOONSDDown 17: Bound to see the end, but not the very endBEHOLDENDDown 18: I beat incoming supporter up as quick as anything!IN A FLASHDDown 20: One of the same clan with name cast in stoneAGNATEDDown 21: Pub had food provided from the very startINNATEDDown 25: Regretted being offensive in speechRUED