The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd May 2002 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd May 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Postprandial summary?DIGESTAAcross 4: Direction to doctor: two medical pieces to be preservedEMBALMEDAAcross 9: Amphibian keeps supporting endeavourEFFORTAAcross 10: Singular craft needed for epigram?ONE-LINERAAcross 11: Confession of theft, as has been said, applied to democracyPROPERTY-OWNINGAAcross 13: Vamp that wed cop was no boilerWATCHEDPOTAAcross 14: See 12BLUEAAcross 16: One of the twelve islands?INCHAAcross 18: Hurl tea wildly round prison? 2!THEJUGULARAAcross 21: Man on island finds loch (not lake) within loch at the weekendFRIDAYTOMONDAYAAcross 23: End of the line abolished at privatisation?RAILHEADAAcross 24: See 3WILLOWAAcross 25: A defective concept after what happened later on?EVENTIDEAAcross 26: Underline sound made by dancerASHTONDDown 1: What's eaten in the chamber?DIETDDown 2: Person of inexperience and obscurity roused to make the attemptGOFORITDDown 3: Dance article found between emblems of football and cricketSTRIPTHEDDown 5: Bread to be spread?MONEYFORJAMDDown 6: Let's have hanging with beheading?ALLOWSDDown 7: Day to face all over the worldMONDIALDDown 8: What's required about Eastern clothing at Biblical city, absolutely soDERIGUERRDDown 12: Flag from the sea by the (Upper) Nile?REDWHITEANDDDown 13: Terry holding class with appeal from tardy child?WAITFORMEDDown 15: Nice work in long periods for providers of employeesAGENCIESDDown 17: Chef's business is at home - stick around!CUISINEDDown 19: Shoot sheetLEAFLETDDown 20: Prestige is caught without painCACHETDDown 22: Shakespeare was Avon's? Not initiallySWAN