The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 5th January 2005 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 5th January 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Tremble with someone like McEnroe entering contestVIBRATEAAcross 5: Kitchen implement lands me in it having eaten tea, we hearSPATULAAAcross 9: Italian barman's decision to leave courtVERDIAAcross 10: Speed required to conceal Blair's first nameCELEBRITYAAcross 11: Little bit cross about the enemyCENTIMETREAAcross 12: Encouraging delivery call?PUSHAAcross 14: Railwaymen without question moved away from the premises?NON SEQUITURAAcross 18: As astonished mind did, admitting working party worked unnecessarilyBOONDOGGLEDAAcross 21: Incomplete job: Olympics was worth a sixth of a drachmaOBOLAAcross 22: Pompous official to criticise pound after monthPANJANDRUMAAcross 25: Liberty, perhaps, to keep free - we must go back to prisonBRIDEWELLAAcross 26: Broadcasting refined, having dismissed society girlON AIRAAcross 27: You shouldn't believe all a Welshman says in the newspapersDAILIESAAcross 28: Dog, perhaps, occupied by right desire without a biscuitPRETZELDDown 1: Lively Virginia clamped?VIVACEDDown 2: Bit required for this routineBORINGDDown 3: Devoted follower, a dog going round around islandAFICIONADODDown 4: One introducing English triplets set about introduction for Scotsman?EMCEEDDown 5: Coarse three plates designed as feature of spacecraftSOLAR CELLDDown 6: Group rising and fallingABBADDown 7: Total presence shown by university by accepting my resignation letterUBIQUITYDDown 8: An unknown woman in the Guardian, or place unspecifiedANYWHEREDDown 13: Trying numbers, do set out last of threeBURDENSOMEDDown 15: Reason for diversion round Panaji's state, these barricaded offNOGOAREASDDown 16: Bad drifts including ice almost soaked upABSORBEDDDown 17: Compiler abroad with no relatives incarcerated, having bust out with this?MONOKINIDDown 19: Substitute tears round chicane?ERSATZDDown 20: A human ditching model, lacking honourAMORALDDown 23: Medicinal drink for month on recordJULEPDDown 24: Jean, the Hebrew patriarch?LEVI