The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th March 2005 There are 13 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th March 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 5: Hand over the city's boxing quarterTURN INAAcross 6: Relating to food that's a bit distastefulOFFISHAAcross 9: The woman's usual disguise includes beard, but not one drop of perspirationURSULAAAcross 10: Town of map makers and crossword setters taking Sun testOSWESTRYAAcross 11: "Arthur's Cigars" rendered with two lines addedSCARAAcross 12: Some killer - if fez's turned back, he would call the shotsZEFFIRELLIAAcross 13: Useless types writing about foreign cars sought by cinema managers?BUMSONSEATSAAcross 18: In 1920s/30s they easily accommodated male members in neat car loadsOXFORDBAGSAAcross 21: See 11GILLAAcross 22: Brandy brings a due change in diminutive girlEAU DE VIEAAcross 23: Become coated with foreign money - wild excitement!FUROREAAcross 24: Kevin's gap yearSPACEYAAcross 25: Nameless European city, back yard address of mistressMILADYDDown 1: Arranged four by four transport with fussy decorationFROUFROUDDown 2: Takeaway dish's middle doubled and moved to end to make it sparklePIZAZZDDown 3: Whiff toe, turning a sickly colour?OFF-WHITEDDown 4: Sounds like noise of sneezing head off - absorbing stuffTISSUEDDown 5: Several times gained by the heartless, grasping filthy richTHRICEDDown 7: "Celebrated 19th century poet" covers MacGonagall finally? Far from it!HARDLYDDown 8: Boxwallah gettin' something off his chest, it's said, to the Creator?COFFINMAKERDDown 14: Profile party opinionSIDE VIEWDDown 15: A trigger released whiskery old jazz numberTIGERRAGDDown 16: For British abroad, maybe sex is wrong without a bit of butterEXPATSDDown 17: Like the drunk's speech distributed around farms?SLURRYDDown 19: Tile - and what it's use in crossword clues is!OLD-HATDDown 20: Row sailor back to arrive at underside of archSOFFIT