The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 28th December 2001 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 28th December 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Where prices fall, endless obligation on unhesitating poet is not orderedDUTCHAUCTIONSAAcross 10: Unnecessary verbiage for weightless bearPADDINGAAcross 11: Pass - turn over a couple of pages firstAPPROVEAAcross 12: Cast heard to be sufferingTHROEAAcross 13: Cutting mat with scissors - all but the ends, strangelyOSTRACISMAAcross 14: Return to the point before long - it may be catchingNOOSEAAcross 16: Our ends may be (Hamlet) - when's possible clue?ROUGHHEWNAAcross 18: The regular custom of sponsorship?PATRONAGEAAcross 19: A romp through Berlin?SPREEAAcross 20: Theatrical musician and literary baron allowed back inLYTTELTONAAcross 23: Student well informed on American diseaseLUPUSAAcross 24: Genuine error by Wax?SINCEREAAcross 25: Lower with awful dread, for exampleDEGRADEAAcross 26: Sh! Tebbit is for reform? You'll be lucky!BESTOFBRITISHDDown 2: Downtrodden like Old Labour?UNDERFOOTDDown 3: Wrong number for Frost?CRIMEDDown 4: Silver starting to develop problemsAGGRODDown 5: Singer can use the lettersCHANTEUSEDDown 6: Charges for a large quantity of fruitIMPEACHESDDown 7: One complaint raised by Old Testament characterNAOMIDDown 8: Getting things just so, like Chopin after his love embraced mineSPIT AND POLISHDDown 9: Disease and its cause, an ego like the FrenchGERMAN MEASLESDDown 15: Running away with strange men to PeelELOPEMENTDDown 16: Oven to be held by judge: that's where it's doneROAST BEEFDDown 17: Master Blair's retained hanging for those in 1, 8, 9 and 26EUROPEANSDDown 21: Present, maybe, making one uptightTENSEDDown 22: The lowest point in deception, a dirty businessNADIRDDown 23: Not a load-bearing beamLIGHT