The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th October 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th October 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Just a single parentUNIPAROUSAAcross 10: Tell a tall tale and get the thread of it?SPINAAAcross 11: Rider, first away, wins 1 pound following the others ...LAGGARDAAcross 12: ... and the others must inspire Gothic endingsETHICALAAcross 13: Ready to drop ad?HALFAAcross 14: Jill of all trades - and how many, roughlyHANDYWOMANAAcross 15: Labourer came first to invest the fluctuating markWORKMANAAcross 17: Narco ends off being overwhelmed by Brave New World drug growthSARCOMAAAcross 19: Confident? Some nerve! I'm first to be taken inOPTIMISTICAAcross 22: See 13DEADAAcross 23: Bristol fashion porterORDERLYAAcross 24: Sharon is raising kings in 11ISRAELIAAcross 26: Take note of queues forming for Shaffer's playEQUUSAAcross 27: Freewheels before getting to another placeELSEWHEREDDown 1: se a blindfold to lead solvers up the garden path?PULLTHEWOOLOVERDDown 2: Strange one!SINGULARDDown 3: One with inside knowledge set up the fiestaGALADDown 4: See 10GOODYARNDDown 5: Map makers lean to portOSTENDDDown 6: One takes pains to avoid amphetamine pills and Swiss potESCHEWERDDown 7: Friends, perhaps, arrive shortly after restSITCOMDDown 8: Have known better days to chance upon Dickens' workFALLONHARDTIMESDDown 16: Mind clumsy sommelier dropping second claret?MEMORISEDDown 17: Superlatively unctuous list re-drawn to accommodate van der RoheSLIMIESTDDown 18: See 1ONESEYESDDown 20: Stomach having to accept journalist (not Hill) displaying monotonyTEDIUMDDown 21: Probe away to capture revolting peasant? Not right!STYLETDDown 25: Barney's racketsROWS