The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 25th April 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th April 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Couple show reverence for a florinTWOBOBAAcross 5: Virgin gets garment for a poundVESTALAAcross 8: Female children move like butterfliesFLITTERAAcross 9: Ashes, if scattered, are proverbially plentiful (not any more?)SEAFISHAAcross 11: Provisions for the bar are flakes, etcBREAKFASTCEREALAAcross 12: I shall shave now - time for the foregoing - from 7 26ILLSAAcross 13: Walked faster, striking the plain before the onset of darknessOUTSTEPPEDAAcross 17: County, one unknown, in unidentified languageANGLO-SAXONAAcross 18: See 12HAVEAAcross 20: Tool is not a transformer of performancesIMPLEMENTATIONSAAcross 23: Young horse pursuing negative journalistNONAGEDAAcross 24: The monkey told a porky, it goes without sayingIMPLIEDAAcross 25: Blanch's success in London?WHITENAAcross 26: See 7WITHMEDDown 2: What if left, for example, at sea? I give upWWITEFLAGDDown 3: Apply (oneself) to the addition of a Greek letter to the King's EnglishBETAKEDDown 4: Lawyers and copper among would-be actors with large 9BARRACUDADDown 5: ... is it?VISITDDown 6: Surrey's opening fast bowlers who 18 16?SPACEMENDDown 7: Don't go for a bathroom fitting on the Queen Elizabeth without the Women's InstituteABIDEDDown 8: Car in a bit of trouble? Porky!FABRICATIONDDown 10: Prince finds Roosevelt, being Democrat, with no trousers on?HALFDRESSEDDDown 14: Right to compete in exhibition of myopia?SHORTVIEWDDown 15: Little of Blair, more of Tony, is in Tony Blair's philosophyPLATONISMDDown 16: See 12NOWEIGHTDDown 19: Refrain sung initially to floor of auditoriumSTOPITDDown 21: Puppet is drunk, which is a blowPUNCHDDown 22: 'Ere's the police college - finally touching ?END ON