The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 12th March 2004 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 12th March 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Like Lear's child, this one's gone to inhale jointsTHANKLESSAAcross 10: See 1ONEOFAAcross 11: Wholly involved with the Latvian grandmasterINTOTALAAcross 12: Hold the burdenREFRAINAAcross 13: "A thousand times no!" encapsulated in this ReformerKNOXAAcross 14: Command return of musical prime suspectIMPERATIVEAAcross 15: Fish freezes in volumesCODICESAAcross 17: Against nature, if one replaces a dud tubeVENTURIAAcross 19: Disloyal? Not US!UN-AMERICANAAcross 22: It's hell, listening to the PMPITTAAcross 23: Held on to see daughter hitchedDALLIEDAAcross 24: Charge for rope trick, get back inside!PROTEGEAAcross 26: Emanations of a primitive primate going quietlyAURAEAAcross 27: Roman judgement days satisfied constituentsDIESFASTIDDown 1: 2s attributed to 22: "Milk-calf as seen in veloute, I plead. Oh, boy! It revivifies"ITHINKICOULDEATDDown 2: The rage of zythum? Amen to that!LAST WORDDDown 3: Runner on time for take-offSKITDDown 4: See 1BELLAMYSDDown 5: Charles's motto translated from aphoriser, verballyISERVEDDown 6: His tales hot from Heinrich or ThomasHOFFMANNDDown 7: A wild oriental frenzied festivalDEWALIDDown 8: Such interference with fig in aperient he dispensedAFINGERINTHEPIEDDown 16: This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I knowCLERIHEWDDown 17: See 1VEALPIESDDown 18: Sphere of Roman Catholic leaders?UNIVERSEDDown 20: It is found in every riverALLUREDDown 21: Divine cowgirl, we hear, passed the saltIODIDEDDown 25: Composer told to depart from Sloane Square!ORFF