The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th June 2003 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th June 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Successor to Randall, almost courteous: an internationalist typeCOSMOPOLITANAAcross 8: Essential oil adding nothing to speed in vehicleCAMPHORAAcross 9: Officer of the crown, if seen in fresh rigSHERIFFAAcross 11: Actress needing a friend to trustPALTROWAAcross 12: A Bill Gates' badly downloaded programme and they could get into hot waterTEABAGSAAcross 13: Contents of treasure-trove belonging to a bygone ageRETROAAcross 14: Yard held individual with a drugMETHADONEAAcross 16: Spooner's activity of many prior to marriageDALLIANCEAAcross 19: Downbeat mood of Gateshead weaver?GLOOMAAcross 21: Fight that's feared by shepherdsSCRAPIEAAcross 23: Desperate character in Pentonville cut short by hangingPENDANTAAcross 24: Heath's relative sorted 21EPACRISAAcross 25: Dutch given to drink - that's fishyALEWIFEAAcross 26: Visual challenge of Spooner's naval battleFAILINGSIGHTDDown 1: Beast of burden returning to a legendary settlementCAMELOTDDown 2: A little learning with zero activity or movementSCHERZODDown 3: She needs no provocation to get involved in a rowOARSWOMANDDown 4: Where shooting is likely to startONSETDDown 5: Former general taking heart from fruit and flower arrangement ...IKEBANADDown 6: ... stirring a subordinate to get fruit order cancelledAGITATODDown 7: Where we make a show of disrespect to the French?SCEPTREDISLEDDown 10: One with whom the social services take issueFOSTER-MOTHERDDown 15: They work in Spanish and Latin productionTHESPIANSDDown 17: Household god can turn up at a Mediterranean resortLARNACADDown 18: Like Caesar without a hazardIMPERILDDown 19: Mother's ruin's part of 7, which is said to be curativeGINSENGDDown 20: His son ain't about to be conceivedONANISTDDown 22: All's said to be wrong with the SpanishELSIN