The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 5th April 2005 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 5th April 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Plato's exemplary way to settle accounts?POSTAL ORDERAAcross 9: Jiffy note at foot of member's stretcherTRICEPSAAcross 10: Cool to take an unconscious jerk's anorakFANATICAAcross 11: Radical left the enemy bewilderedMETHYLENEAAcross 12: Motivated by crowdDROVEAAcross 13: Nymph with one choice that's not on iceECHOAAcross 14: Mel Gibson's lead becomes paltry part in "The Crucible"MELTING POTAAcross 16: Solve 3 by 10 without editor getting to play a mean trickDOTHEDIRTYAAcross 19: Overcoats with fleecingSCAMAAcross 21: 17 girdled calendar girls to put a top onBEWIGAAcross 22: Any plight isn't right one to be trifled withPLAYTHINGAAcross 24: Code protecting interior switches in explosive deviceTORPEDOAAcross 25: Fuss about a league with ill-matched sidesSCALENEAAcross 26: An increase in riskDANGERMONEYDDown 1: Celebrate when new penny's gone without time to have old pennyPAINTTHETOWNREDDDown 2: Run-down sound of recorded deviceSEEDYDDown 3: Use rate in knots from sternAUSTEREDDown 4: When Bobby can have rest of rum?OFFBEATDDown 5: Fight at sound of bellDING-DONGDDown 5: Fight at sound of bellDINGDONGDDown 6: "Tainted love" is pretty clever with hindsightRETROSPECTIVELYDDown 7: It's about setter's rising drug problem of old, of courseSTYMIEDDown 8: Take mushroom restricted by legislationACCEPTDDown 15: Swan boxes match in colourPEA-GREENDDown 16: I lit out to weaken argumentDEBATEDDown 17: Avidly ask for naughty fairy tales that educate?IMPLOREDDown 18: Member that's horizontal managed to split the best part upTRANSOMDDown 20: Charlemagne then embraces one that's attractiveMAGNETDDown 23: Discipline of toddler when two?TWAIN