The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 21st March 2002 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 21st March 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Abandon Islam? 'e could be a latter-day IshmaelOSAMA BIN LADENAAcross 10: Hitherto unforeseen revelation?EYE OPENERAAcross 10: Hitherto unforeseen revelation?EYEOPENERAAcross 11: I go out for a shroud hereTURINAAcross 12: Relieved of the habit, Mon Pere diedCUREDAAcross 13: Laxness - the Nobel prizewinner was not at one accidental gatheringICELANDICAAcross 14: Deceptively casual about height, me darlin'?ACUSHLAAAcross 16: First left in the orderTHISTLEAAcross 18: Plaza-Toro's domain?DUKEDOMAAcross 20: One savouring someone else in the leadPOTHERBAAcross 21: "Whose odes awry Could Hermes try?"RHYMESTERAAcross 23: One having too much of the one c-cup that cheers?THEICAAcross 24: Could one force John from the White House?IGLOOAAcross 25: Capital of Karnataka, or a Bengal developmentBANGALOREAAcross 26: Revolutionary Assizes left spare warrantLAISSEZ PASSERDDown 2: Incredible brute televised dismantled shipSHEERHULKDDown 3: Two-stroke was cut upMOPEDDDown 4: Bill, if mountain climbing up one side of PortugalBENFICADDown 5: Not about to stitch the king up from this directionNOR'-WESTDDown 6: One's objective to be the real winnerACTUALISTDDown 7: On the contrary, the Red Queen miscalculatedERREDDDown 8: Parting shot? Och, ours didnae fash!DEOCHANDORUISDDown 9: New Yorker's glory in Sunday spielKNICKERBOCKERDDown 15: Here flourished hogweeds, right?HEDGEROWSDDown 17: So it follows the whistle-blower, or 'e followsTHEREFOREDDown 19: Crompton's making out the bill that's unsettledMUTABLEDDown 20: Fastens the blame over a radical typePARSNIPDDown 22: Leaders of Yanks always left their allies conferring hereYALTADDown 23: Alexander the Great has it off with her!THAIS