The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 20th June 2002 There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 20th June 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Element of the London theatrical scene?PALLADIUMAAcross 6: Dowdy from beginning to endFRUMPAAcross 9: Something to promise a cut in labour?COMPUTERISATIONAAcross 10: Counterpart to spring trap restricting a setbackNEAPAAcross 11: Bunny Lake is back and embraced as a formalityCEREMONYAAcross 14: Forcibly propel what could well be a long hop?FROGMARCHAAcross 15: Lunkhead, trendy and zip, for exampleLINGOAAcross 16: Below mainframe's capacityINFRAAAcross 18: Cut very close relations taking lead in spectacleSKIN-TIGHTAAcross 18: Cut very close relations taking lead in spectacleSKINTIGHTAAcross 20: Coitus interruptus after. we're told, a sea of soundACOUSTICAAcross 21: Eat into barFRETAAcross 25: Whereby one is completely clapped-out?STANDING OVATIONAAcross 26: Go into the middle of America without introductionENTERAAcross 27: Ability to survive in French riverENDURANCEDDown 1: Nut's about to be put in prisonPECANDDown 2: Complaint when graphite's not softLUMBAGODDown 3: An odd flowerARUMDDown 4: One side without a thingITEMDDown 5: Mad creature two months older is heard around lair in fernMAIDENHAIRDDown 6: Birch is retrospectively l-lawful in the endFLAGELLATEDDown 7: Legendary beast has King Charles holding the ring in marriageUNICORNDDown 8: Plant that's almost value for money?PENNYWORTDDown 12: Official, perhaps, to whom graduates feeling unhappy in foreign capital turned?AMBASSADORDDown 13: Money-taking cries out for foresightPRESCIENCEDDown 14: Dish that's no starter in the continent's viewFRICASSEEDDown 17: Fine fortune worker shows up in the air on coat of armsFLOTANTDDown 19: Adoring solution of Alexander's problemGORDIANDDown 22: It shows time is tightTENSEDDown 23: Might dispose of you when said to be unfriendlyCOLDDDown 24: Just food, we hearFAIR