The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 20th July 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 20th July 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: See 16DANCERAAcross 4: In a slurred fashion, regret the passing of a cult US TV series and varietyMISHMASHAAcross 9: Go make good!REPAIRAAcross 10: Into Soul? Perhaps this is what you're afterSOLUTIONAAcross 11: Out of the running, yeti grabs two points - a nightmare scenarioNINETEENEIGHTYAAcross 13: "Southern beer's rubbish" left out of commercial campaign!SALESDRIVEAAcross 14: See 11FOURAAcross 16: Choke reindeer, one making an entertaining clatterCLOGAAcross 18: Recording the score of "King Hal" in reverse order aboard vesselCHALKINGUPAAcross 21: Novel manual evidence of a serious neglect of household vacuuming?AHANDFULOFDUSTAAcross 23: The best in cold desserts - break open "the hard stuff" with themICEPICKSAAcross 24: Was an informer about to steal hemless skirt?SARONGAAcross 25: Absence of evil: an added indication of female's curiosityNOSINESSAAcross 26: Hythe's isolated housing position advancedTHESISDDown 1: Misnamed historical period? "Unfair!" (Times)DARKDDown 2: About mating: joke about taking tail offNUPTIALDDown 3: It makes some people get fit all of a suddenEPILEPSYDDown 5: Brummie has a - as one might say - short unfinished book: "Circle of the Romantic English Composer"IVORNOVELLODDown 6: The bloke's embracing crossword setters' voluptuous womenHOURISDDown 7: Sound of involuntary personal outburst in dispute you might hearATISHOODDown 8: Dearest gin used to seduce one into implicating oneselfHONEYTRAPDDown 12: Her squeak at random, caused by passing plates?EARTHQUAKESDDown 13: Cartesian solecism motivated by religious hatredSECTARIANDDown 15: Prison with club, hospital and something for garden visitors to wallow inBIRDBATHDDown 17: Asses reason (wrongly) it's good to be insideONAGERSDDown 19: As Jupiter is, gigantically, so usage determinedGASEOUSDDown 20: Chap is hot from the wall erectorADRIANDDown 22: See 1AGES