The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th November 2001 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th November 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Get both sides all out, producing a no-win situation?CATCHTWENTYTWOAAcross 8: The shape of decayMOULDAAcross 9: Pause for popular pest cut shortINTERMITAAcross 11: Away support in the wildsOUTBACKAAcross 12: Forgive poet admitting backward look to verseABSOLVEAAcross 13: Giant periodical covering gameMAGOGAAcross 15: Small plant may look livelyEYEBRIGHTAAcross 17: It's unique, on average, in manNONPAREILAAcross 20: Take the fizz out of the painterDEGASAAcross 21: Identify one god and goddessISOLATEAAcross 23: Drink returned amid expression of contempt for perkFREEBIEAAcross 25: Mean to crack the number of the games consoleNINTENDOAAcross 26: Some of its sculptors obviously can't do headsTORSOAAcross 27: Tetchy allusion common in academic writingCROSS-REFERENCEDDown 1: Covering people with dung is reasonableCOMPOS MENTISDDown 2: Financial arrangement reportedly held in bondTRUSTDDown 3: Bloom's monster swallowing rage, almostHYDRANGEADDown 4: Ruse for getting the last bit of vinegar into the seafoodWRINKLEDDown 5: Two sorts of vermin gaining energy from fertiliserNITRATEDDown 6: Tales of heartless sunbeam in the ascendantYARNSDDown 7: One girl crashed into former Liberal at the roundaboutWHIRLIGIGDDown 10: Examiner, one holding up drunk male driverTESTOSTERONEDDown 14: Old region revisited by boatmanGONDOLIERDDown 16: Dog inducing shepherd's delight?RED SETTERDDown 18: Spain's slender golden girlELEANORDDown 19: Free ride cancelled at outset of long journeyLIFT OFFDDown 19: Free ride cancelled at outset of long journeyLIFTOFFDDown 22: Singers bound head to footALTOSDDown 24: Unproductive-sounding titleBARON