The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 19th October 2001 There are 18 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 19th October 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: It's of little help to a European trying to make his markPFENNIGAAcross 5: Commander's commander in sort of novel that could go either way?AGASAGAAAcross 9: Serious-minded one keeping fledglings within view?IN EARNESTAAcross 10: After good quarrel, left with snarlGROWLAAcross 11: Change when season comes aroundEDITAAcross 12: What's tossed by Scot heading off with two men - one his compatriotABERDONIANAAcross 14: Warning - superior gent has very little moneyTIP-OFFAAcross 14: Warning - superior gent has very little moneyTIPOFFAAcross 15: Sign of something wrong with performance? See about that, just!EXACTLYAAcross 16: One who fights partner no end, love being deficientMATADORAAcross 18: Go through childhood with small gang of people aroundGROW UPAAcross 20: One maniac on the loose in the early part of year must be brought to bookJAMAICAINNAAcross 21: A mostly gloomy time in the Jewish calendarADARAAcross 24: Deploring bankruptcy, getting $1,000RUINGAAcross 25: Numbers recorded this mysteriously flowering plantAARON'S RODAAcross 26: Like stars around Uruguay not seen in our hemisphereAUSTRALAAcross 27: Anticlimax coming back to earth?LET DOWNAAcross 27: Anticlimax coming back to earth?LETDOWNDDown 1: Saw lions disappear at the end of every summer?PRIDEDDown 2: I get weary, me - it's another way for those who've retired!EMERITIDDown 3: Some drug sounds like grassNARKDDown 4: See 1GOESBEFOREAFALLDDown 5: Legal officer presenting a longer entreaty when in difficultiesATTORNEY GENERALDDown 6: Language in a slogan that's silly - Number 10's spinningANGLO-SAXONDDown 7: A follower of Aquinas - not hard sort of philosopher?ATOMISTDDown 8: Around time of austerity, pay perversely is more than enoughAPLENTYDDown 13: Dogged girl being devious?GOLD DIGGERDDown 16: Army officer about to take over a holiday islandMAJORCADDown 17: Medal for bravery that is associated with the ultimate in sacrifices first given to soldiersTOMMIESDDown 19: Suffer in submission to divine power endlesslyUNDERGODDown 22: Gas gets central heating device functioningRADONDDown 23: Difficult problem when word of denial is heardKNOT