The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st December 2004 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st December 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Crossword compilers, getting little money in post, put offSUSPENDAAcross 5: Ask me another time for the way throughPASSAGEAAcross 10: High jumper to run, it's announcedFLEAAAcross 11: Chopper, Spooner's big promise?WHIRLYBIRDAAcross 12: Display of arms, perhaps?TATTOOAAcross 13: Saucery?SPELLINGAAcross 14: Eat, think and digest: not good constituents in such a regimeTHEATKINSAAcross 16: All in river at end of dayWEARYAAcross 17: Small distance which widens when happySMILEAAcross 19: Heroic course cut short, at which point disaster strikesEPICENTREAAcross 23: Criminal, vacant setter admits J K Rowling's humanSMUGGLERAAcross 24: Might this drive you when single to gatecrash parties?LIBIDOAAcross 26: Catching cousin with goat, disturbedCONTAGIOUSAAcross 27: See 14DIETAAcross 28: President Bush's last accepted documentCHARTERAAcross 29: See 13MISTAKEDDown 2: A mum under heartless relative set freeUNLEASHDDown 3: Bush's twentieth strategy?PLANTDDown 4: Where Queens find one way to avoid a bust up with KingsNEW YORKDDown 6: Man eaten by snake, which can be fastASLEEPDDown 7: Black reform in tabloid ranked fairly lowSUBALTERNDDown 8: Actress wants to tear newspaper upGARDNERDDown 9: Knife-thrower's aim is Lord Lucan, perhapsMISSINGPERSONDDown 15: Bring up tripe, a bit of fish, a snapperALLIGATORDDown 18: Wiped out charger with bullets in short timeMAMMOTHDDown 20: One's alone and cold climbing monumental structuresCOLOSSIDDown 21: Lips are to kiss an unschooled farmer?REDNECKDDown 22: Harry would make capital with the other sidePLAGUEDDown 25: Remain on top of tap, behind washerBIDET