The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 24th February 2004 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 24th February 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: No 7, showing alarming instabilityMARGINALAAcross 5: Drink current at watering holesBARSACAAcross 9: Fear memory gives short measureANGSTROMAAcross 10: Stick on a Scottish islandSTAFFAAAcross 11: Move officer into counselling serviceRELOCATEAAcross 12: The end of western enlightenment?SUNSETAAcross 14: Furious at being made redundantGOINGSPAREAAcross 18: Money in Ireland terribly short over hereLANCASHIREAAcross 22: With this he cuts designs in lithographyTUSCHEAAcross 23: Risk over American leader showing the nature of his ambition?IMPERIALAAcross 24: It's with an eye to requirement by the FrenchNEEDLEAAcross 25: Get company in to cork the bottle?SCREWTOPAAcross 26: In India it makes me itchMYSOREAAcross 27: Put the opposition in to get them outDECLAREDDDown 1: Some think time a great healer - but it doesn't amount to muchMEAGREDDown 2: English brew up for feastREGALEDDown 3: Ulster backing diplomacy without a breakINTACTDDown 4: The poor sap's work abused by tradespeopleAPOSTROPHEDDown 6: What's obvious to a student is unselfishnessALTRUISMDDown 7: Peterhouse represented at Westminster?SAFESEATDDown 8: Bishop of a foreign cathedralCHARTRESDDown 13: Exciting romance had led Hector to the altarANDROMACHEDDown 15: A container in choice metalPLATINUMDDown 16: Grass hen chewed up with teethGNASHERSDDown 17: Single part transposed by composerBACHELORDDown 19: Soap sounds cornyCEREALDDown 20: German trying to lose weightDIETERDDown 21: Having gone downhill, Trollopean diedSLOPED