The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 21st August 2003 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 21st August 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Catamaran initially in the dock, one lost to noted female?CONTRALTOAAcross 10: Lass, like this clue, n end f rpe?NOOSEAAcross 11: Lodging in poor road, I will abandon rich pickings here?ORCHARDAAcross 12: Careful procedure the last resort?STEALTHAAcross 13: Suitable place in which to see Armani - Chelsea?NICHEAAcross 14: Slow to find the garlic devilish?LETHARGICAAcross 16: Flower, one I'm preserving in a pickleEVENING PRIMROSEAAcross 19: Man with giant strawberry on his head eats fruit - well I never!GORBLIMEYAAcross 21: Build a lead in tennis?SET UPAAcross 21: Build a lead in tennis?SETUPAAcross 22: Virgin man in a pickle, model having fledBRANSONAAcross 23: African flower lasts without endless resin for oneZAMBEZIAAcross 24: Instrument would sound high, if cold were hotCELLOAAcross 25: From navel fluff bacilli, after little hesitationUMBILICALDDown 1: Composer's chosen movement by composerSCHOENBERGDDown 2: Not good conditions for driving in relation to this from of transport?UNICYCLEDDown 3: Box contains English makeCREATEDDown 4: Trotter for the most part raised showed signs of lacerationBLEDDDown 5: Edges of very rusty pot replaced upside downTOPSY-TURVYDDown 6: Type of deodorant that's scarce, making a comeback in nudism perhaps, is outlawedUNDERARMDDown 7: Diversion lifted for relief by the way?DOGLEGDDown 8: Feature of Orson Welles's ethic, a substitute for "The Third Man"SETHDDown 14: Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trappedLEGUMINOUSDDown 15: To make cheese, how do you milk a Welsh hedgehog?CAERPHILLYDDown 17: Sick crossword compilers charged something for the deceptionILLUSIONDDown 18: Travel farther than, where abroad, the car's broken downOUTREACHDDown 20: How dare you deposit a pound in bank!REALLYDDown 21: Exemplification is small enoughSAMPLEDDown 22: US car, one abandoned, ridiculously cheap for an American?BUCKDDown 23: Squeeze bullock to get bovine out of the middleZEBU