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.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Wildean response to vetting in New York: "Oh, gee!", exclaimed Oscar. "Up the revolution!"IHAVENOTHINGTOAAcross 8: Vestment heavily embroidered in CaliforniaCOTTAAAcross 9: Gallows's construction for pranksterOWLGLASSAAcross 11: See 1DECLAREAAcross 12: When might one include the Big Apple in a sentence?ANYTIMEAAcross 13: Mother-in-law's lament takes one back...NAOMIAAcross 15: ... amidst which her daughter-in-law stood to cook, clean, iron...ALIENCORNAAcross 17: Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in "Remembrance of Things Past"ANAMNESISAAcross 20: Post hoc yobbo leered at leaders of taxonomic divisionsPHYLAAAcross 21: Out on a limb with this deception?LEG-PULLAAcross 23: Particular church circles backing affirmationCHOOSEYAAcross 25: Let alumni get to grips with utteranceOBSTACLEAAcross 26: Inspirational figure from under a toadstoolERATOAAcross 27: See 1EXCEPTMYGENIUSDDown 1: Apropos of where detectives are intellectually foreshortenedINCIDENTALLYDDown 2: Piper with Montezuma's air force?AZTECDDown 3: Floating vote again spoiledEVAGATIONDDown 4: Large cable inside a minesweeper's floatOROPESADDown 5: Prince rallying all with one bugle callHALLALIDDown 6: Charles II was dying to say "Please feed this elephant"NELLYDDown 7: Times puzzle in Blair's manifestoTESTIMONYDDown 10: She "kissed me when we met" and without saying why. O, Eliot! This is your queen!JENNYANYDOTSDDown 14: William III's coffin?ORANGEBOXDDown 16: Ulster Protestant's initiation; one's in training with the ShintoistsNIPPONESEDDown 18: Thus allowed to make advancesSOLICITDDown 19: What one enters coming outSOCIETYDDown 22: The BBC hasn't begun to deliverUNTIEDDown 24: Mystic immersed oneSWAMI