The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 20th September 2001 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 20th September 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: On which Kipling wrote sadly to mother an' dad; a poem followedTHEROADTOAAcross 6: Ordain, following Peter's habitFROCKAAcross 9: Might the next part come to one of the 25?EXPECTANTMOTHERAAcross 10: New look from this ChristianDIORAAcross 11: See 1MANDALAYAAcross 14: Film director resisting inclusion of tear-jerkerANTONIONIAAcross 15: Show, in two senses, to have sickness benefitAVAILAAcross 16: Hydrophobic cab-driver madly spilling dervRABICAAcross 18: First new town wise about event, perhapsSTEVENAGEAAcross 20: Puck's pursuer on edge?ICE SKATEAAcross 21: Newshound's epitaph?DEADAAcross 25: One law is detaining unruly court attendantsLADIESINWAITINGAAcross 26: Sound, square and smellySOLIDAAcross 27: Author with only a few (500) charactersFAYWELDONDDown 1: Suiting precious daughterTWEEDDDown 2: Soak feet, sayEXPLOITDDown 3: Cetologist's quarry from Balearic IslandsORCADDown 4: Tie up the Guardian's charge?DRAWDDown 5: As was Ishmael or Socrates, I'd gatheredOSTRACISEDDDown 6: Flower stemmers needed apres Louis XV and de Pompadour?FLOODGATESDDown 7: Catastrophe liable to take issue with PoloniusOPHELIADDown 8: Packer down of dogKERRYBLUEDDown 12: Weak supporters touching caps once KKK den assembledKNOCK-KNEEDDDown 13: Who stole Shergar? Fish out one of the others!HORSETHIEFDDown 14: What Lindbergh used to ventilate WC?AIRFIELDSDDown 17: Would Alfred tear into Beethoven''s first line in New York?BRENDELDDown 19: One said how he'd remain'd hopelessly in reserveAMERINDDDown 22: Samson destroyed his temple after many an attempt. Name?DAGONDDown 23: With, for example, outside influenceSWAYDDown 24: See 21LINE