The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 1st December 2004 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 1st December 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Feeder, strangely slim, keeps in charge of devotion to the bookBIBLICISMAAcross 6: See humour with bridge system 651 to end game (23 12)LOVEAAcross 10: Doctor of Timothy a help backing wife of OswaldDIANAAAcross 11: Summer guards for newspaper with its glasses?SUNSHADESAAcross 12: See 10 and 13MITFORDAAcross 13: Shakespearean Jewess with German car noted American endsJESSICAAAcross 14: Orthodox procedure for music rehearsal?SOUNDPRACTICEAAcross 17: Cool as an owner-occupier?SELF-POSSESSEDAAcross 21: I'm going to hedgeTRIMMERAAcross 22: Name of Spanish king also name of revolutionaryALFONSOAAcross 24: Projecting object hurt me badly, making me cry about itSORETHUMBAAcross 25: 9's revised by HammondINNESAAcross 26: It could make a splash on the turf firstSODAAAcross 27: Historian with time to party and no withdrawingTREVELYANDDown 1: Corporation service, a function of weight and heightBODYMASSDDown 2: He's not likely to be a good boy!BEASTDDown 3: See 6INACOLDCLIMATEDDown 4: He shouldn't be trading in what's said to be drinkINSIDERDDown 5: 2 award for military junta's problem being containedMUNTJACDDown 7: Antique clocks with a service history?OLDTIMERSDDown 8: Authenticate a piece of nonsense a little reluctantlyENSEALDDown 9: Variety actors have no answer to ground coffee, about one poundTHESPICEOFLIFEDDown 15: Bond's shaken but still in bed?UNSTIRREDDDown 16: A fellow keeping promises has gift of livingADVOWSONDDown 18: Hobby as 23 12's of 6PURSUITDDown 19: Quiet walk to the butcher's?SHAMBLEDDown 20: Arrest by secret policemenSTASISDDown 23: Pretty boy in French townNANCY