The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd March 2004 There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd March 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 4: Music player giving flower to birdDEEJAYAAcross 6: Job for metal worker, fascinatingRIVETINGAAcross 9: Musical piece for clarinet was finished by having one bar too many?OLIVERAAcross 10: Guide's statement reversed about one's king and prime ministerDISRAELIAAcross 11: Collective ventures which Corbett had a hand in, those rarely done, we hear?SWEEPSTAKESAAcross 15: Drug given to farmyard animals merits witty remarkEPIGRAMAAcross 17: Rude boy nearly sent back for tantrumOBSCENEAAcross 18: Upset at pain from running: this isn't runningCROSS-STITCHAAcross 22: Representative of ruler receiving backing of fool by day's endEMISSARYAAcross 23: Exaggerate when scorer lacks finish in goalless drawOVERDOAAcross 24: House plant turning blue firstDWELLINGAAcross 25: What cows do, causing altercation amid what they hadBROWSEDDown 1: Imaginary god detailed in planMADE-UPDDown 2: Mention "A Taste of Bangkok" (Mansfield) to confuseTIEINKNOTSDDown 3: Some 1,000,000 I sense providing anxietyNEUROSISDDown 4: On which rep stood to be abused, or posted letters?DOORSTEPDDown 5: Sickening traveller Moore in "Odyssey", perhapsEPIDEMICDDown 7: Time for someone stabbed in the back to accept end of tenure!IDESDDown 8: Sound opening paceGAITDDown 12: One's shaken given leak from ANC's 9?TAMBOURINEDDown 13: Departures from here, where arrivals expect to be late if leader changesHEATHROWDDown 14: Unseat figure after the road swiftly bendsDETHRONEDDown 16: Mineral lacks torrent?ROCK SALTDDown 19: Local clergyman turns up in brownTAVERNDDown 20: See 9REEDDDown 21: Sort of escape from sackFIRE