The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 26th January 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 26th January 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Books about Joyce's first working titleTOMJONESAAcross 9: Litter no guy disturbedYOUNGAAcross 10: Unpredictable woman's formula includes nitrogenMINXAAcross 11: Victoria perhaps beheaded after rejecting cure for windERUCTATIONAAcross 12: Strike for unlimited foodBUFFETAAcross 14: Journalist's bangerREPORTERAAcross 15: Steady return covering unhealthy manNEVILLEAAcross 17: Jocular desire to admit a horse, sayWAGGISHAAcross 20: Case of the second dateSTAKEOUTAAcross 22: Noble bird went aheadTITLEDAAcross 23: Bridge team that's in switched-off state - it can't lastTRANSIENCEAAcross 24: Stick up for birdCOCKAAcross 25: Takes off bunged-up sounding aristocrats?DOFFSAAcross 26: Pollsters flanked by a dexter and a sinister (in these terms)ARMORIALDDown 1: The Loneliness of the Outside LeftSOLITUDEDDown 2: Greek warrior provides a vote for German 10AJAXDDown 3: Determined to exclude religious education from the web?INTENTDDown 4: Dialect that comes from the mouthESTUARYDDown 5: Pay it and sod off to Brave New World, sayDYSTOPIADDown 6: Absolutely wet?QUITERIGHTDDown 7: Don't look at topless women in Rimini!IGNOREDDown 13: Film script's material turning on iron weaponFLICK-KNIFEDDown 16: Superlatively dizzy, dishes in the doshLOOPIESTDDown 18: Code-breaking in stately home's inner shellSEED COATDDown 19: Laurel's wreathing South Africa's poetrySTANZASDDown 21: Artist featuring in current polemical outburstTIRADEDDown 22: Woman volunteers to take controlTHELMADDown 24: Man upended to produce glazed effectCIRE