The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 4th September 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 4th September 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Mergenthaler's kind of floor covering?LINOTYPEAAcross 5: Current account - one with a network of branchesACACIAAAcross 9: Working man involved with bike plantCYCLAMENAAcross 10: Grab genetic material - sleep aroundKIDNAPAAcross 12: It's most alien to a skinheadTRESSAAcross 13: First person singular?SOLIPSISTAAcross 14: It enables the a/c to be cookedBALANCE SHEETAAcross 18: Chisel wielded by engineer, one in charge of the DomeBRUNELLESCHIAAcross 21: Doctor finds the point, right in the backREGISTRARAAcross 23: Spectrum of colour, lacking nothingRANGEAAcross 24: Economic blunder - company lost receiptsINCOMEAAcross 25: Mark of fashionable writerINSCRIBEAAcross 26: Where in a leg injury cure might need decapitation?EALINGAAcross 27: One being thus delayed, departs aloneISOLATEDDDown 1: Place where officer follows separatists risingLOCATEDDown 2: Mistakenly liken cent to 5NICKELDDown 3: Common rail experience without one to explainTRANSLATEDDown 4: Where hacks attend recruit starting to row in boatPRESS GALLERYDDown 6: Teacher held by cop and had up for lacking flexibilityCRISPDDown 7: Jails, as opposed to non-custodial penaltiesCONFINESDDown 8: Craving a soft little foreign female ...APPETITEDDown 11: ... jumps at a girl down underALICESPRINGSDDown 15: Odds on Charlie after operation coming round?SPHERICALDDown 16: Unfortunately over a bit prematurely?ABORTIVEDDown 17: Almost certain state soldier's in this kind of spiritSURGICALDDown 19: Charge on land almost brought to courtINDICTDDown 20: Caption, for example, inserted in advanceLEGENDDDown 22: He's wrong to get the doctor inSIMON