The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th August 2002 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th August 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: The Spanish sailor's nil charge is complexELABORATEAAcross 10: The Sun is a female in RussiaRAISAAAcross 11: Increases the amount of upper-class chattersUPRATESAAcross 12: Will you do this again?RESOLVEAAcross 13: Lard likely to cook one of the hunks?LADYAAcross 14: Thought to be legally placed in the estimation of the street?CONSIDEREDAAcross 16: Love in an old officer, one of those associated with 5CORONETAAcross 17: One of these surprises was associated with 17 downTHUNDERAAcross 19: Further levels reached when changing numbersNEWHEIGHTSAAcross 22: Fruit taken from William in ItalyUGLIAAcross 24: A giant to be sick for a maidABIGAILAAcross 25: Antisocial person hails me, strangelyISHMAELAAcross 26: One of 5, say, in IndianTIKKAAAcross 27: The Conqueror's ancestor entertains some Tories: "I'd love to _____ some day before I'm old" (Kipling)ROLLTORIODDown 1: In a theatrical company of aesthetes mine host is an elephantREPUBLICAN PARTYDDown 2: Girl's garment in boy, or peninsula (with 18?)LABRADORDDown 3: See 17BOLTSDDown 4: Postprandial request as entry to Pimlico?PASSPORTDDown 5: Suit of a kind?HEARTSDDown 6: Umpire disoriented top people in the USSRPRESIDIUMDDown 7: See 13KILLERDDown 8: Hold ball? Never! I'm dispersing these so-called musiciansLAVENDERHILLMOBDDown 15: Nameless feeler with endless story taking place during confinementANTENATALDDown 17: Bird on meadow was on lineTITFIELDDDown 18: Souvenirs of friend Diana, who keeps one in butterDOGHAIRSDDown 20: Beater, in the past a young lady with plenty of spiritWHISKYDDown 21: See 20GALOREDDown 23: Colour of the man's suit, a success in the GuardianWHITE