The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th April 2002 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th April 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: 12 and 11's what the NHS providesCAREFREEAAcross 5: 12 and 11's - understand? - a debtors' prisonFOLLOWAAcross 9: See 5THEFLEETAAcross 10: 12 and 11's gone to the pub, it doesn''t say whereTOP HATAAcross 12: Dancer and journalist held by dreadlocked sectary during shootingFRED ASTAIREAAcross 15: Share of punishment?WHACKAAcross 17: Pole with gong hiding among the bedclothes?NIGHTGOWNAAcross 18: Person of ideas: the alternative is HMTHEORISERAAcross 19: All about nothing with one to finish, as they saySUOMIAAcross 20: Possibly Jasper National ParkYELLOWSTONEAAcross 24: Richard's pipes?BRIERSAAcross 25: Champion of women has Tracey in handFEMINISTAAcross 26: Electronically summons student among similar soundsBLEEPSAAcross 27: Islands disturbing lagoon where magnetic is not trueISOGONALDDown 1: Disinherit youngster when upper-class humorist, getting a bit of a laugh, came in and diedCUTOFFWITHDDown 2: Sir Alec was to dance with Madame Peron, also Mr HeathREELEVATEDDDown 3: Went down with a guyFELLADDown 4: Take the trouble to note reflexes, perhapsEXERTONESELFDDown 6: Liftman keeps registered choices for procreation of snailsOVOTESTISDDown 7: The French take little time at the ovenLEHRDDown 8: T is for Tyler, according to the inventorWATTDDown 11: Dancer and spirit wander in - depart for French departmentGINGER ROGERSDDown 13: Engine for crazy poetLOCOMOTIONDDown 14: Limited one sort of surgeon - that's by the wayINCIDENTALDDown 16: For overhead security the king and I take the limits of Barnaby and his ravenKIRBYGRIPDDown 21: 12 and 11's second side on the clock?SWINGDDown 22: See 1ABOBDDown 23: See 21TIME