The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd October 2001 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd October 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Utterly blown out from wordsmithBULWERAAcross 4: See 1LYTTONAAcross 9: DustmanADAMAAcross 10: Consort making name in Co-Conran creationCOHABITANTAAcross 11: Where the ayatollahs lie in state with an omophagous AmazonianPIRANAAAcross 12: Son of Slad's directors catching my drift with this?LEEBOARDAAcross 13: North Atlantic threat a pretext to make an Italian hopBERGAMASKAAcross 15: "With ____ of leaves and ripple of rain" (Thwinburne)LISPAAcross 16: The limit of Procol Harum's colour chart?PALEAAcross 17: Coming before the water hazardADVENTUREAAcross 21: Ash Wednesday, oddly enough, not so fastEMBER DAYAAcross 22: Captain Scott names the game hunterFALCONAAcross 24: Populate the county? Cool it!SETTLE DOWNAAcross 25: Harry Ramsden's contribution to IT?CHIPAAcross 26: Some coal left out for fireIGNITEAAcross 27: Anthropologist's objective in Melton Mowbray?PIEMANDDown 1: Eleventh hour in the BBC Book Department?BEDTIMEDDown 2: Witch reverting to nameless creatureLAMIADDown 3: Old forty-niner's right to raise hellEXCLAIMDDown 5: Why, some say, a French priest has the right to talk nonsenseYABBERDDown 6: One might own the body of this designer's workTATTOOISTDDown 7: This paint completely dry, is it?NONDRIPDDown 8: What 1 across 4 wrote applied to times of ashy destructionTHELASTDAYSOFDDown 14: Girl wearing underwear here in TexasGALVESTONDDown 16: See 8POMPEIIDDown 18: Levantine gentleman speaking, initially, of France and North DakotaEFFENDIDDown 19: Thus the Colossus managed to carry the first load of bricksRHODIANDDown 20: Against entering trade disruption at short noticeADVERTDDown 23: Alternative medicine manLOCUM