The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th January 2002 There are 13 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th January 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 5: Fruit painter is at homeRAISINAAcross 6: Marine mammal moved soil on stringDUGONGAAcross 9: What's responsible for images of 20 1?AGEISMAAcross 10: Moral tale has the bloody lot on ecstasyALLEGORYAAcross 11: See 18HOMEAAcross 12: 18 (11) needs payment to take in weary setterRETIREMENTAAcross 13: 10's upset about time at the pictures for 11 dealerESTATE AGENTAAcross 18: (and 11) Polled sheep moo, oddly, in 20 1's residenceOLDPEOPLESAAcross 21: (and 25) 20 1 in 11s don't quite emulate Beckett charactersWAITAAcross 22: 18 (11) is what happens to fishEVENTIDEAAcross 23: Writer returned to cut relationNEPHEWAAcross 24: 18 (11) has poles covered in fatSUNSETAAcross 25: See 21FORGODDDown 1: See 20CITIZENSDDown 2: Room for Germans in 1811?ZIMMERDDown 3: Shot on target and the Frenchman will croakBULLFROGDDown 4: Act dumb initially with stone hitting bumperDODGEMDDown 5: Area of flower country given a lift without oxygenREGIONDDown 7: Hunting, shooting, or fishing, say, in larger understandingGERUNDDDown 8: Second Labour premier absorbing fluid with alien armadaBATTLE FLEETDDown 14: A cat is presented to the Queen to make little dropsATOMISERDDown 15: Modern culture retaining spelling in principal part of paperNEWSPAGEDDown 16: Frank's garments, half of the sixesCLOVISDDown 17: Famous death in the engine?BIGENDDDown 19: Old stick of a lawyer by whom Margaret's granny's embracedPENANGDDown 20: (and 1) Sincere Zionist settled maybe with pensionsSENIOR