The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 19th November 2003 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 19th November 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Guarantee securing a boy for a limited periodSEASONALAAcross 5: Model put on a slipper, displaying charmAMULETAAcross 9: Store of Latin gathered in by outdoor workerGARDENERAAcross 10: Onset of pain in the kidneys set back marksmanSNIPERAAcross 11: Artists apply to less than saintly monkRASPUTINAAcross 12: "The slag has manners", officer admitted on reflectionSCORIAAAcross 14: Emperor Pan devised special appellationPROPER NAMEAAcross 18: Waving too much, having secured a promontoryUNDULATORYAAcross 22: Sponge for dessert sent back with sigh of reliefLOOFAHAAcross 23: Labourer covering a Test drops note of support for bowler?HATSTANDAAcross 24: Dodgy, squire (nudge nudge wink wink)!RISQUEAAcross 25: Rupture received in the same place in IrelandHIBERNIAAAcross 26: Look at birdGANDERAAcross 27: Strike second-best attendantSTOPPAGEDDown 1: Brought up American lad to be sentimentalSUGARYDDown 2: Topless Antipodeans going to Thailand make Greek tenseAORISTDDown 3: Dishevelled blouse bears the mark of the printerOBELUSDDown 4: America's finest take gold - a change for the betterAMELIORATEDDown 6: Cosmetic treatment for hyperactive waterwayMANICUREDDown 7: Clear up mess left by wild partyLUPERCALDDown 8: Seem likely to be devoured after god drops roundTHREATENDDown 13: Revolutionary BNP member from Bath concealing Tory origin?SPARTACISTDDown 15: Pond-dweller's edict finds king in no condition for drivingBULLFROGDDown 16: A decadent poet admits verse by churchman's rightADVOWSONDDown 17: Response to accusation certain to give delightPLEASUREDDown 19: Euphemistically dead fish gobbled up by snakeASLEEPDDown 20: A country raised to conceal name of fictional realmNARNIADDown 21: Imagine being fed to the fish!IDEATE