The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 1st March 2002 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st March 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Mobile harbour hereALABAMAAAcross 5: Dressing boat at Oxford?KETCHUPAAcross 9: See 26DIALSAAcross 10: Volume One: "Be Prepared for Sexploitation"BLUEMOVIEAAcross 11: Safe from Sky TV for childrenBLUE PETERAAcross 12: Canvas backing supporting "Medea's Elegy"EASELAAcross 13: One of the singing sisters of Sir Sidney?NOLANAAcross 15: No Poppy Days after these conflicts?OPIUMWARSAAcross 18: Did she survive slaughter as a tsarina right away?ANASTASIAAAcross 19: Explosive component of Ulster on time? On the contraryNITREAAcross 21: Match crime with punishment?ARSONAAcross 23: Britten's river circles Lake Geneva, on dit: that should make a German dance!ALLEMANDEAAcross 25: Host got up for thisELEVATIONAAcross 26: (and 9) "As in the lowly air of _____ " ("Iolanthe", or Ballesteros Island eruption)SEVENAAcross 27: Purify lost soul in the water of WalesDELOUSEAAcross 28: Having "nooky" places, Miss Montez embraced copper and kingLOCULARDDown 1: Birdman of Alcatraz, initially you say, bound to escape!AUDUBONDDown 2: Old Peruvian potentate writing two articles about Utah's poor mountain climbingATAHUALPADDown 3: His morals were fabulousAESOPDDown 4: Mariner's neckwear acclaimed at the 19th hole?ALBATROSSDDown 5: 1,000 former railwaymen right for expulsion from 22KNURRDDown 6: Meant him to change name to court celebrityTIMHENMANDDown 7: H-he composed "The Unanswered Question": that's rash!HIVESDDown 8: Live over in Edson Arantes do Nascimento's Royal BurghPEEBLESDDown 14: Barak saw him off to haunt any English settlementNETANYAHUDDown 16: Terrible type leading advance, left to court celebrityIVAN LENDLDDown 17: Nouveau roman of wretched Levantine, going East for loveANTINOVELDDown 18: Over one after another in careATANENDDDown 20: Miss Rigby once noted in Aquitaine?ELEANORDDown 22: Take my place awhile, it's enchantingSPELLDDown 23: In being quickALIVEDDown 24: Let's face it - it's barred!MUSIC