The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 31st December 2004 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 31st December 2004. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: 20 revising Lady Windermere's opening chapterALDWYCHAAcross 5: 20, one hears, cost nothingPHOENIXAAcross 9: Society style carrying the can in the vanELSANAAcross 10: Usher's brother deflowering maidensBRIDESMANAAcross 11: 20 transferring "The Boy Friend": I express some doubtPALLADIUMAAcross 12: Scream from this champMUNCHAAcross 13: Within time, without rain stormINTRAAAcross 15: 20 setters' clue for "Ye endless depravity"THEOLDVICAAcross 18: Looking tough, had got out of the way with dignityHARDFACEDAAcross 19: Loves time with the SudaneseNILOTAAcross 21: Mystery tour with Ali leading soldiers back to the 20ROYALAAcross 23: 20 finding good in eccentric newly-wedCAMBRIDGEAAcross 25: Invest a loss from agreeable dealing after superior intervenesBELEAGUERAAcross 26: T - L - S: fill in the gaps!GROUTAAcross 27: German counts time most seriousGRAYESTAAcross 28: Greek tipping English mistress of a 21 - and the Orange order, what?HELLENEDDown 1: 20 based in the city of brotherly loveADELPHIDDown 2: Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!DESOLATORDDown 3: Streisand's cross-dresser left for a gossip in the shtetelYENTADDown 4: Bush critic one caught falling out. So pride goes before a fall!HUBRISTICDDown 5: Classical ruler's spin doctor am I?PRIAMDDown 6: Fruit gone rotten with honey toppingOGENMELONDDown 7: He denies his land is disputedNOMANDDown 8: Yellow China tea say, brewed after 10XANTHICDDown 14: Team up with FIFA et al: one fouledAFFILIATEDDown 16: Fat hedonist Henry died during Wood's first concert up hereENDOMORPHDDown 17: Wheelers' rendezvous where lost love died at the road's endVELODROMEDDown 18: Forester hero dropping inferior university: good catch for the American entomologistsHORNBUGDDown 20: Playing soldiers on this battlefield?THEATREDDown 22: Crimean War settlement hereYALTADDown 23: See 21COURTDDown 24: 21? Drink up!REGAL