The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 6th January 2004 There are 17 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 6th January 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Patient support for tasteless plotSICK BEDAAcross 1: Patient support for tasteless plotSICKBEDAAcross 5: Seafood that's the object of heart-warming exerciseCOCKLESAAcross 9: Boy from Northern Ireland turned outsideERNIEAAcross 10: Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian insideSHEEPCOTEAAcross 11: Bridge hands in training get something to write onPARCHMENTAAcross 12: Ruler keeping nothing back from cookROASTAAcross 13: A less than meaty bit of science paper, pejoratively speakingSCRAGAAcross 15: "Drop them!" - proverbial expression in Asian cityBOMBSAWAYAAcross 18: Adaptable character making mess of clean homeCHAMELEONAAcross 19: Get hold of deceased VIPNABOBAAcross 21: Understood to be coming back somewhat tosticatedTACITAAcross 23: Force to renew involvement with fruitGREENGAGEAAcross 25: Italian recipe involving one chicken's head to be pluckedPIZZICATOAAcross 26: Prove equal to the contestMATCHAAcross 27: Doubts this planet's seen 7WONDERSAAcross 28: Unconventionally packaged spirit aurally recounted by 23 down?TINDRUMDDown 1: Trumpet's first to be replaced by piano in chamber groups raised in flat landscapeSTEPPESDDown 2: Heard someone doing wrong song - "Where the Dead Men Go"CINERARIADDown 3: Woodworker's companionBEECHDDown 4: Broadcaster dropping by to take bearings and misleadDISSEMBLEDDown 5: Do talk about Spain!CHEATDDown 6: Decoration for eunuch holding a knight upCAPARISONDDown 7: Money wrapped in note to scrubberLOOFADDown 8: With charm and cunning, taking little timeSWEETLYDDown 14: Regrouped after Geri's London catastropheGREATFIREDDown 16: Skin trouble salesman gets from vegetableMANGETOUTDDown 17: Dramatist receiving degree from IT officerWEBMASTERDDown 18: Puppet producing a lot of litter?CAT'S-PAWDDown 18: Puppet producing a lot of litter?CATSPAWDDown 20: Conductor, oddly, became hotBEECHAMDDown 22: 5 down with firm religious ethosCOZENDDown 23: Novelist and teller of talesGRASSDDown 24: Sister admits Shed is GodNUMEN