The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 5th October 2004 There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 5th October 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Turn on "Best Ram In Show"?START UPAAcross 1: Turn on "Best Ram In Show"?STARTUPAAcross 5: Scarf provides partial soundproofingMUFFLERAAcross 9: What Desmond Tutu would make of a commercial gathering?TRADEFAIRAAcross 10: Skin is censored in advanceCUTISAAcross 11: Hiding place turned over for moneyRIALAAcross 12: Unsophisticated popular song about "The Flower in the Wood"PHILISTINEAAcross 14: Tubs in which love's an anticlimaxBATHOSAAcross 15: Bring in largely unyielding undergarmentHARVESTAAcross 16: Brown saint? Brown saintDUNSTANAAcross 18: Meal involving a sending-offLAUNCHAAcross 20: Scientist's nervous reaction is interrupting French playwrightGENETICISTAAcross 21: Second-rate low-lifer's objectionable offspringBRATAAcross 24: Humble dwelling - one with a rodentHUTIAAAcross 25: Unearthly power given to Muse to take name of languageESPERANTOAAcross 26: Sound of impact when king enters townWREXHAMAAcross 27: Common occupant of churchyard recorded address to trio in IrelandYEWTREEDDown 1: Instrument - one adopted by famous performerSITARDDown 2: State from which Mahler's wife received a degreeALABAMADDown 3: One who draws rank?TIERDDown 4: Complexion of papers about novelist, revolutionary and vegetable, in reverse orderPEACHESANDCREAMDDown 5: Second man and his loopy, eccentric ethicsMORAL PHILOSOPHYDDown 6: Circle of politically correct gurus supplying advice to politician?FOCUSGROUPDDown 7: Remarkably alert in site of evacuationLATRINEDDown 8: Due consideration of muscle in reposeRESPECTDDown 13: What is the right translation of "rednecks"?WHITE TRASHDDown 16: Display of animal behaviour by Cockney swine aboard boatDOG SHOWDDown 17: Lady 9, taking drug but not drinkingNINETTEDDown 19: Court officer's trap catches nothingCORONERDDown 22: Saint of the Riviera failing to finish figure of speechTROPEDDown 23: The cry of one bird or anotherCROW