The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st January 2003 There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st January 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Making love on the royal yacht?COURTSHIPAAcross 6: Identification mark of one from a set that's incompleteBADGEAAcross 9: Object of veneration encountered Old Testament rejectionTOTEMAAcross 10: In Kent it's made no difference...MAIDSTONEAAcross 11: ... to new sport reporter on the south coastPORTSMOUTHAAcross 12: A little cash is in the post, we're toldCENTAAcross 14: Silk net made into masticLENTISKAAcross 15: Girl receives letter in Greek from spiny creatureECHIDNAAAcross 17: Impish enjoyment soldier's taken in scene of massacreGLENCOEAAcross 19: Figure a month with endless painDECAGONAAcross 20: Rifle fireSACKAAcross 22: Free trade - comic sort of ruleDEMOCRATICAAcross 25: Pharaoh's approving expression on passionate recordAMENHOTEPAAcross 26: Doughboy rejected "bathroom" in northern accommodationIGLOOAAcross 27: Dined in college, it's saidEATENAAcross 28: Lines in church choir work curtailed by a bloomerCHRYSANTHDDown 1: TUC deeply afflictedCUT-UPDDown 1: TUC deeply afflictedCUTUPDDown 2: True English can't form speechUTTERANCEDDown 3: Newspaper medium may turn on the heatTIME-SWITCHDDown 4: Border security can be deadlyHEMLOCKDDown 5: Love potion said to enhance purityPHILTREDDown 6: Jungle man could be subhuman - not half!BUSHDDown 7: Roger exhausted without being an idlerDRONEDDown 8: What a gricer does to get it?EYESTRAINDDown 13: What maintenance staff should do at points, etcCHECKRAILSDDown 14: Support is overdue for what diets doLEGISLATEDDown 16: Approve of European cutting out a drugDIGITALINDDown 18: Tie lace loosened by Zeno, for exampleELEATICDDown 19: Pretentious type loses name, then he fallsDROPPERDDown 21: Many deserted following schismCLEFTDDown 23: Dedicated type much seen in churchCLOTHDDown 24: Military order to avoid?SHUN