The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 11th February 2004 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 11th February 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Copper with 9 5 for the roads in RomeLESTRADEAAcross 5: See 9HOLMESAAcross 9: Bombshell about fairy king breaks around setter and solverSHERLOCKAAcross 10: Mug finds drug in 23BEAKERAAcross 12: See 22ADLERAAcross 13: Without time to choose I have been workingOPERATIVEAAcross 14: Desired contents of Keats's 10 turned to mush post bellumTHEWARMSOUTHAAcross 18: Windjammer right up to chief blowerTRUMPETMAJORAAcross 21: Port with towers has business round in fashionTREBIZONDAAcross 23: Specially nice cakes, say, for 9 5's placeBAKERAAcross 24: Breeding ground with bottle?HOTBEDAAcross 25: Polls with aesthetic tastes opposed to 9 5MORIARTYAAcross 26: See 23STREETAAcross 27: The Norfolk Pimpernel, poet and soldierBLAKENEYDDown 1: Sailor from the East left a hurtful markLASCARDDown 2: Tinker eating honey going up one's nose?SMELLYDDown 3: Potential Poet Laureate hurries to get top jobRULERSHIPDDown 4: 9 5's friend to cowards, not convertsDOCTORWATSONDDown 6: Times up at lastOMEGADDown 7: Romance - be friends again!MAKEITUPDDown 8: Like an owl finding loose bits of rock at centre of churchyardsSCREECHYDDown 11: Fellow takes to painting plus music with great enthusiasmHEART AND SOULDDown 15: Wintry reflection by owl: NB sadly in declineSNOWBLINKDDown 16: Good fellow craves effect of good joke?STITCHESDDown 17: Old magistrate goes south, intersecting equator (very nearly)QUAESTORDDown 19: Hide concealing game with pisteSKI RUNDDown 20: Sounding like the sacred ambition, possibly, in somewhat colourless styleGREYLYDDown 22: Wrath at hand, in which we get led astray by 9 5?'s "The Woman"IRENE