The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th August 2004 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th August 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Grouse about initial radio transmission of spaceMOORFOWLAAcross 5: Know-how, when University replaces Tech, is inimitableUNIQUEAAcross 9: Not yet ready for the scrapheap, but are they being exploited?USEDCARSAAcross 10: Intricately veined salad plantENDIVEAAcross 12: Lines for article in carrier with first class directions for making sauceHOLLANDAISEAAcross 15: Goes bad with nothing in the undergrowthROOTSAAcross 17: Two monarchs giving sovereign's first greeting in long ago countyYORKSHIREAAcross 18: He loves me ... he loves me not ... now nothing's left!APETALOUSAAcross 19: Check back about note being more agreeableNICERAAcross 20: Theologian, one in the money, on the point of displaying ungentlemanly behaviourCADDISHNESSAAcross 24: Team in anger rejected the potionELIXIRAAcross 25: A doctor gets run out to South Africa, taking in fabulous foodAMBROSIAAAcross 26: Live number, it's said. Gracious!BENIGNAAcross 27: Trapped in a glacier, a teetotaller appears to turn to steelACIERATEDDown 1: Author detailed gnome to replace music makerMOUTH ORGANDDown 2: Ignored while being in full viewOVERLOOKEDDDown 3: Soccer's over for American spies at the frontFACIADDown 4: An endowment of sophisticated commodities?WORLDLY GOODSDDown 6: Pennons or switches for a has-beenNONPERSONDDown 7: Curious TV show?QUIZDDown 8: We're told to manipulate the creaturesEWESDDown 11: Copy, including rewritten score, is of a small movementMICROSEISMICDDown 13: Romp home with such a bun in SussexWINCHELSEADDown 14: He's with egghead outside painting the Deep PansyHEARTSEASEDDown 16: Point to listener with child at home, good but inquisitiveSEARCHINGDDown 21: Well-shod, she (or he, perhaps) might be a winnerHORSEDDown 22: Saying expert ignored part of speechVERBDDown 23: Spirits or joint over the pub?JINN