The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 6th September 2002 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 6th September 2002. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: No-go in state, no-go by day?NOCTURNALAAcross 10: Egg provides measure of energy, not beginning to include beginning or end of 16OVULEAAcross 11: Did these glamorous people formerly play by ear?EXOTICSAAcross 12: Creche in north Surrey reorganisedNURSERYAAcross 13: Press suit where suits are pressedCOURTAAcross 14: Splendid display with a sombre hairdoPOMPADOURAAcross 16: Writer and bookman to take Iliad off in 5sVLADIMIR NABOKOVAAcross 19: Dubious character's discount covers whoreREPROBATEAAcross 21: Super fishBRILLAAcross 22: Animal to stare into the distance? On the contraryGAZELLEAAcross 23: Descriptive term for what's essential in back supportEPITHETAAcross 24: Practise religion of 12DOZENAAcross 25: Compiler's 20 involving bits of log in farcical situationIMBROGLIODDown 1: Secret to reveal about foreign articleUNDERCOVERDDown 2: Tolkien's villains about to turn left among sportsmen in disorderSCROFULADDown 3: Jamesian villain - one held to be datedQUAINTDDown 4: Does a sunrise issue from your idol's?ANUSDDown 5: Dessert with largely tasteless, cold, scabby skinBLANCMANGEDDown 6: Perform - or improvise on - Bach's first bit of frameworkDOORJAMBDDown 7: Old flame turned up in unfinished house in jacketTUXEDODDown 8: Decimal system said to be moistDEWYDDown 14: Drunken hack almost lit pile of stampsPHILATELICDDown 15: The last book to bring joy to the clericREVELATIONDDown 17: I called round on the 5th of April for hospital equipmentIRON LUNGDDown 18: Monarch regularly being chivalrousKNIGHTLYDDown 20: South Africa gets into Italian food without a flashy performancePIZAZZDDown 21: Islander gutted coastal townBRITONDDown 22: Pedigree includes rising novelistGIDEDDown 23: Island where Nellie goes toplessELBA