The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 16th August 2001 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 16th August 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!ABERRANCEAAcross 10: See 13 and 21ADLERAAcross 11: 24's picked painter, parallel to...ELECTRAAAcross 12: ... diphthong, one third of it AmericanOEDIPUSAAcross 13: Lazy fellow covering Near East turmoil that could have scandalised BohemiaIRENEAAcross 14: More expensive hairdo keeping jumper on top floor?UPPERROOMAAcross 16: Article on sex offender following film devotee of 24, 23 down or 10?PSYCHOTHERAPISTAAcross 19: Lights of mine make out my lad as Vice-PresidentDAVYLAMPSAAcross 21: Student arrives on wrong day - he comes to the queen as a music makerLARRYAAcross 22: Liberal caterer left men cured with treatmentCLEMENTAAcross 23: Scot cut short a holy man with a wife and mother of 12JOCASTAAAcross 24: See 22 and 21downFREUDAAcross 25: Canary, one that sang tenor parrot-fashion?LANZAROTEDDown 1: Long-tailed duck grasps broken pipe, getting disfiguredHARELIPPEDDDown 2: Cut little city very hardSEVERELYDDown 3: Summons man to squirm?WRITHEDDown 4: 24's daughter wasn't worth muchANNADDown 5: Release in chamber for Italian writer and politician in robesDECOMPRESSDDown 6: An old ram is converted and gets a haloMANDORLADDown 7: Drink fizzy pop with port in the Middle EastALEPPODDown 8: Weapon that needs ironing, would you say?KRISDDown 14: Turn a little - my turn at lastULTIMATELYDDown 15: Solver's dead - died after setter - here are their spiritsMETHYLATEDDDown 17: Old weapons ensure cattle are outside a poundHALBERDSDDown 18: Teacher in black first put up with mockeryIRRISIONDDown 20: Saw contest, got marriedVIEWEDDDown 21: Lost lord retained one right in long-standing quarrel with painterLUCIANDDown 22: Blow that could be shotCUFFDDown 23: Pole imprisoned by German in Salad Days?JUNG