The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 14th March 2003 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 14th March 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Fails to catch girlsMISSESAAcross 5: Cruel slaughter at service areaMASSACREAAcross 9: Hostile state? I'm in one anyhow first!INIMICALAAcross 10: Junction in electricity supply serviceMATINSAAcross 11: Free hand to trace wandering girlCARTE BLANCHEAAcross 13: Long-distance call in the showerHAILAAcross 14: Turns round in foreign city and abandons all restraintRUNSRIOTAAcross 17: Triumphantly wave cereal bowlBRANDISHAAcross 18: Italian magistrate has to follow directionDOGEAAcross 20: Wire reins do vary internally quite a lotCONSIDERABLEAAcross 23: Class of lungfish in one's pond for a changeDIPNOIAAcross 24: One supervising love poetry to QueenOVERSEERAAcross 25: Appeal for reconciliation put at risk?ENDANGERAAcross 26: Fox led astray by child's gaitTODDLEDDown 2: No change in first-class return to islandIONADDown 3: Stop Colin with some fudgeSEMICOLONDDown 4: Positive about city being safeSECUREDDown 5: Hide fruit first for use once in NormandyMULBERRYHARBOURDDown 6: Girl taking doctor in something for making puddingSEMOLINADDown 7: Historian told to continue performingACT ONDDown 7: Historian told to continue performingACTONDDown 8: Wound at rehearsalRUN-THROUGHDDown 12: Lothario in trouble for oiling the locksHAIRLOTIONDDown 15: Remedied by changed attireREDRESSEDDDown 16: Fire wood of the sort Erica getsKINDLINGDDown 19: Refuse assent in the endOBJECTDDown 21: Shrub raised by girlsSENNADDown 22: Tumbled down hillFELL