The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 11th January 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 11th January 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Potential extra-mural work?ARTEXAAcross 4: Campanologist on holiday? I want a liftDUMBBELLAAcross 8: Poetical scene with surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetatingTHEOLDVICARAGEAAcross 10: Prophet with female backing: possibly I am heNEHEMIAHAAcross 11: See 5BEARERAAcross 12: The Golden River is the way to sound perfumeryORRISROOTAAcross 15: Writer retaining accountant is a nutPECANAAcross 17: Cries of triumph make a hash of defencesHAHASAAcross 18: Luxurious Italian city during its retrogressionSYBARITICAAcross 19: Artist, and so on, femaleETCHERAAcross 21: Communication about upper-class propertyMESSUAGEAAcross 24: Deciding the price of a container? It's being expensiveCOSTINGAPACKETAAcross 25: Son - child with boy's name - where rubber's rubbed offSKIDMARKAAcross 26: Put off before Araucaria's to decideDETERDDown 1: When some attention is given here to arrangementATTENTOTHREEDDown 2: Three companions true form security: does it yet 22 1down in 9?THECHURCHDDown 3: Woody tissue is unknown - unknown to the gentleman from ParisXYLEMDDown 4: Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in - they go another wayDEVIATORSDDown 5: Nutmeg ground by mother to beadleMACEDDown 6: Say peremptorily: "Put up your sword!" Right, landlordBARKEEPERDDown 7: King's rising provided in pubLAGERDDown 9: See 8GRANTCHESTERDDown 13: Cuts speed to dodge being thought a criminal?SUSPECTEDDDown 14: Pill, not half acid - hopefully it's not with one's mouth fullTABLE TALKDDown 16: Transport to the vet, in case there's a serious illnessCATBASKETDDown 20: See 2CLOCKDDown 22: ____ and, if you win, you may sitSTANDDDown 23: Girl with little money - and that obsoleteANNA