The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 11th March 2002 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 11th March 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Language that provides neat proseESPERANTOAAcross 10: Round safety devise that's practicableOFUSEAAcross 11: She is expected to succeedHEIRESSAAcross 12: Small number performing for 24 hours - 12 in factNOONDAYAAcross 13: Musician wanted a meal right awaySUPPEAAcross 14: What a taxi driver may do? That's a lot of rubbish!REFUSETIPAAcross 16: Who'll go first?LEADING QUESTIONAAcross 19: Precipitate way the staff leave school assembly?HEADFIRSTAAcross 21: Barrels used for target practiceBUTTSAAcross 22: Officer cut off in passCOLONELAAcross 23: Short dress on mother, to say the leastMINIMUMAAcross 24: Outcast reflects the way people treat himLEPERAAcross 25: Going out, Nigel's not the only one in a suitSINGLETONDDown 1: Old man provides me with so sound an upliftMETHUSELAHDDown 2: Vegetable only half-cooked?SPLIT-PEADDown 3: Remain perfectly still and go cold all overFREEZEDDown 4: Objects and doesn't go onENDSDDown 5: Located the cause of the trouble and criticisedFOUNDFAULTDDown 6: Company with deficit states huge figureCOLOSSUSDDown 7: Wiseacre makes a witticism, spoken in FrenchPUNDITDDown 8: Fed up youngsters beginning to flout authorityDEFYDDown 14: Lacking respect, notwithstandingREGARDLESSDDown 15: Dostoevsky's partner in crimePUNISHMENTDDown 17: Uniformed footmenINFANTRYDDown 18: Personal hintINTIMATEDDown 20: Like to run when so inclinedASLOPEDDown 21: Miscalculate and tip a pound noteBUNGLEDDown 22: Common complaint of many of advanced yearsCOLDDDown 23: It may flow and sound like the seaMANE