The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th July 2002 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th July 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: To foil strike, say something!OUTWITHITAAcross 10: See 1 downCAROLAAcross 11: Sir John's draught, but it's rarely blown in the windSACKBUTAAcross 12: Fruit here, or vegetableORCHARDAAcross 13: Bread made by 19NAANAAcross 14: Ms Malone, Claire and Penelope in DublinMOLLYBLOOMAAcross 16: What do naive characters make of a beauty spot?NAEVOIDAAcross 17: College fellow swallowing drug substancePOLYMERAAcross 19: 13, say, where one of Monty Python's Flying Circus took off?PALINDROMEAAcross 22: 19 from employee at the court of King MongkutANNAAAcross 24: 'E's getting sound credit for pay outs once in LisbonESCUDOSAAcross 25: Tho' race might go so farREACHTOAAcross 26: One of Harry's stiffeners?SINEWAAcross 27: Herod's son to gain entree to Rome ?ANTIPASTODDown 1: Ca-can't spell? O! No reason to make a demand on 15CONSONANTPLEASEDDown 2: The pen of the Judge Advocate GeneralSTOCKADEDDown 3: Where the unbaptised bend over backwards?LIMBODDown 4: The first transport for the masses in Norfolk?THETFORDDDown 5: Second dwarf to take the airSTROLLDDown 6: Like a poised anchor, or a tap on the beakACOCKBILLDDown 7: A king starting "Much Ado" with the Spaniard in "Love's Labour''s Lost"ARMADODDown 8: Author of Oblomov having lost head via drink with a drunkVLADIMIR NABOKOVDDown 15: Declining introduction to space programmeCOUNT DOWNDDown 15: Declining introduction to space programmeCOUNTDOWNDDown 17: Fish confused from keeping pets? Quite the reverse!POMFRETSDDown 18: One called to the bar shone excitedly in the Cambridge instituteMINEHOSTDDown 20: Gap left by English king escaping nuclear explosionLACUNADDown 21: Limb emerging from Hera's calfRASCALDDown 23: Frank audition of TV controllerZAPPA