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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 8th January 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 8th January 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Wildean response to vetting in New York: "Oh, gee!", exclaimed Oscar. "Up the revolution!"IHAVENOTHINGTO
AAcross 8: Vestment heavily embroidered in California
AAcross 9: Gallows's construction for pranksterOWLGLASS
AAcross 11: See 1
AAcross 12: When might one include the Big Apple in a sentence?
AAcross 13: Mother-in-law's lament takes one back...
AAcross 15: ... amidst which her daughter-in-law stood to cook, clean, iron...ALIENCORN
AAcross 17: Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in "Remembrance of Things Past"
AAcross 20: Post hoc yobbo leered at leaders of taxonomic divisions
AAcross 21: Out on a limb with this deception?
AAcross 23: Particular church circles backing affirmation
AAcross 25: Let alumni get to grips with utterance
AAcross 26: Inspirational figure from under a toadstool
AAcross 27: See 1EXCEPTMYGENIUS
DDown 1: Apropos of where detectives are intellectually foreshortened
DDown 2: Piper with Montezuma's air force?
DDown 3: Floating vote again spoiled
DDown 4: Large cable inside a minesweeper's float
DDown 5: Prince rallying all with one bugle call
DDown 6: Charles II was dying to say "Please feed this elephant"
DDown 7: Times puzzle in Blair's manifesto
DDown 10: She "kissed me when we met" and without saying why. O, Eliot! This is your queen!JENNYANYDOTS
DDown 14: William III's coffin?ORANGEBOX
DDown 16: Ulster Protestant's initiation; one's in training with the Shintoists
DDown 18: Thus allowed to make advances
DDown 19: What one enters coming out
DDown 22: The BBC hasn't begun to deliver
DDown 24: Mystic immersed one
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