The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 26th March 2004 There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 26th March 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Relaxed with a book about SouthendAT HOMEAAcross 4: Father takes on arbitrators in quarrelFRACASAAcross 9: Enthusiastic singer makes a comebackAVIDAAcross 10: Italian takes the biscuitFLORENTINEAAcross 11: Sick one in Calais at the water holeUNWELLAAcross 12: Woolly sheep moo? No chance at all!SOMEHOPEAAcross 13: Refined actress and child seen in short reelRECHERCHEAAcross 15: Cover for one lying in child's bedCOATAAcross 16: Fortune for female put awayFATEAAcross 17: Danes pull out completelyALLENDSUPAAcross 21: Bearded nuns have put leader lastUNSHAVENAAcross 22: Two daughters in white splash aboutPADDLEAAcross 24: Transport minister who said, "Stand and deliver!"?HIGHWAYMANAAcross 25: Warning given by last of Chicago guysOMENAAcross 26: Sofa back ready to drop through being grippedDAY BEDAAcross 26: Sofa back ready to drop through being grippedDAYBEDAAcross 27: Feel bitter about being posted twice?RESENTDDown 1: Move on, with vertigo starting, in a knees-upADVANCEDDown 2: Pussyfoot around hospital boundaryHEDGEDDown 3: Miss Gabler, top half hidden, in a scarfMUFFLERDDown 5: I'm hers when bewitched in FranceRHEIMSDDown 6: Hear the promise - that's the sloganCATCHWORDDDown 7: Where children play and spit outsideSANDPITDDown 8: A hem one should repair: everyone knows thatHOUSEHOLDNAMEDDown 14: Box the fodder and go to bedHIT THE HAYDDown 16: Supposed to be desiredFANCIEDDDown 18: Yesterday's writers finally made a lossEXPENSEDDown 19: Most terrible glue: it's coming unstuckUGLIESTDDown 20: Fly that is swallowed, preserving the Roman wayAVIATEDDown 23: Idler: one needs a doctorDRONE