The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th September 2003 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th September 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Shallow versifying in Measure for Measure?POETIC JUSTICEAAcross 10: Phil, some say, a royal playing for LiverpoolORCHESTRAAAcross 11: Rut cut in from leftLETCHAAcross 12: Broad, conclusively representative art retrospectiveTRAMPAAcross 13: With no trace of Les Miserables, singularly leading in the British chartsODOURLESSAAcross 14: Miserable Les; no German holds with backing this composerNIELSENAAcross 16: Last Stuart detailed first victim; Ms Lee?ANNABELAAcross 18: French horn's theme in Berlioz's overtureCORSAIRAAcross 20: Non-Reithian reference to his fiefdom?THEBEEBAAcross 21: Authoritarian, dehumanising and oppressive: like Blair?ORWELLIANAAcross 23: Who's the would-be geisha around here? All right! I am!MAIKOAAcross 24: Holy Island welcoming one Greek outpostIONIAAAcross 25: Love at first sight sought on this appointment?BLIND DATEAAcross 26: Topping gag inducing low, glum, sour 'Ha!'GALLOWSHUMOURDDown 2: Eye on a car, perhaps? When do you get your Christmas bonus?ONCEAYEARDDown 3: Time and money absorbed with Queen's foolTWERPDDown 4: Picasso's model? On the contrary, theirs ...CITROENDDown 5: Beautiful! An ovation surrounds the Bolshoi's finest!ULANOVADDown 6: Two articles from Anatole France: no French play here!TOLERANCEDDown 7: On which, quietly speak of pretty girlCUTIEDDown 8: Oo! One fruit cake cooked, not a biscuit!FORTUNE COOKIEDDown 9: Wow! The libel's fabricated! Right, who blabbed?WHISTLE-BLOWERDDown 9: Wow! The libel's fabricated! Right, who blabbed?WHISTLEBLOWERDDown 15: Hill's thorn-bound 7am delivery service?SNAIL MAILDDown 17: Without ceremony, brother, I've returned Old Trafford's shorts!BREVIMANUDDown 19: Trout knocked off by Lawrence?RAINBOWDDown 20: Hot nudist refreshed with a funnelTUNDISHDDown 22: Fish so called with a new lawyer in New YorkWANDADDown 23: Impulsive transmitter of verse between massesMODEM