The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 18th July 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th July 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Women steering at sea or hoofing it?TILLERGIRLSAAcross 9: It's child's play to look endlessly aboutPEEKABOAAcross 10: Two kings accepting an orderRANKINGAAcross 11: General in command in Northern Ireland going back to Ulster to an assumed identityINCOGNITOAAcross 12: Old King's Counsellors providing wit and wisdomWITANAAcross 13: French good taste can cause painGOUTAAcross 14: Large farm spread round king's recognition signalMARKERFLAGAAcross 16: Sounds like the late Vice President's political philosophy has to do with Arabic or decimal countingALGORISMICAAcross 19: A golf playerGARYAAcross 21: Boast, they say, about someone from ZagrebCROATAAcross 22: Roundabout long since redesignedENCLOSINGAAcross 24: Follow the leftie at a gentle paceDOGTROTAAcross 25: Cleaned up, as a parasite didSPONGEDAAcross 26: Put on important hat for the racesDONKEYDERBYDDown 1: Attila or Tamburlaine, perhaps: of course, he'd g-got a divine means of punishmentTHESCOURGEOFGODDDown 2: Force nail back into Chinese measurementLIANGDDown 3: Unusual collection made when late partner cut one coatEXOTICADDown 4: Grouse about crook getting the George CrossGORCOCKDDown 5: Wretched fellow on call's got a fungal infectionRINGWORMDDown 6: Like a star, travelling singly round wreck of Titanic with two studentsSCINTILLATINGLYDDown 7: Make a confession about advertising some time before the summerSPRINGDDown 8: Gone back round the child's horse, they say, to get a drinkEGGNOGDDown 15: Siblings who can sometimes be exclusive?BRETHRENDDown 16: Four-bar cadenza containing an overarching passageARCADEDDown 17: Peter's confused about 100 staffSCEPTREDDown 18: Cleanly cut: it sounds just the opposite of very largeINCISEDDDown 20: Words to invoke the old divinities in the theatre?YEGODSDDown 23: Sanctity's sweet smell?ODOUR