The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd October 2004 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd October 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Dolly eats 4, which is almost twenty-six centuries oldPARTHENONAAcross 10: Finally, gastronome was up for crumbleERODEAAcross 11: Chiseller thus cuts somebodyMASONAAcross 12: More jobs, less tax, better services - same (if not radical)MANIFESTOAAcross 13: During Easter, chaplains not at home, outPASCHALAAcross 14: Room 101 turns into freezing landscapesICECAPSAAcross 17: 4 as plane or ship?CAMELAAcross 19: 4 to take the lion's shareHUGAAcross 20: Worked up, that is, to snare 4IRATEAAcross 21: 4 alongside river during drink gets betterSURPASSAAcross 22: 4 caught by Malayan knife over in ScotlandSELKIRKAAcross 24: 4 huntin' round universitySEA URCHINAAcross 26: Issue's against imageTOPICAAcross 28: A blemish afoot, which becomes mightyACORNAAcross 29: Relatives in salons prepared to head for wigsSONSINLAWDDown 1: Exalted work of 18 becomes junk mailSPAMDDown 2: Credit is doubled, causing great troubleCRISISDDown 3: 4 cold in the countryCHINCHILLADDown 4: Plate brought up, liver?ANIMALDDown 5: Invert 4/9/500 recurringUNENDINGDDown 6: 4, note, for meatBEEFDDown 7: Time 4 constricted by 4 in AfricaBOTSWANADDown 8: Currency of Europe? Sorry!PESODDown 13: Groups declaring peacePACKSDDown 15: 4 in toilets shaking flapEPIGLOTTISDDown 16: 6 in small woodSTEAKDDown 18: Cartographer places right 4 in Rome, wronglyMERCATORDDown 19: Covert probing of NHS establishments by the Guardian repeatedHUSH-HUSHDDown 22: Making noise, soak to absorb breadSONANTDDown 23: 4 destroys itself with phosphorus instead of nitrogenIMPALADDown 24: 4 with arms raisedSTAGDDown 25: Vociferate as runs over 4RANTDDown 27: Hood caught 4, or 4 at large?COWL