The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 26th August 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 26th August 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Indian primate takes over a churchAPACHEAAcross 5: More ties can be a burdenTIRESOMEAAcross 9: Boat capsized in river - mark it wellNOTA BENEAAcross 10: Complaint of a boy in setter's careMALADYAAcross 11: How long-suffering type is seen by doctor?PATIENTASJOBAAcross 13: Pudding - a travel firm gives you one for nothingSAGOAAcross 14: Articles on oil rig presented on stageIOLANTHEAAcross 17: Laurel never a feature of CornwallSTANNARYAAcross 18: Mount for heartless primate?ROANAAcross 20: Bottle from Eindhoven brewer?DUTCH COURAGEAAcross 23: Lent is perhaps silent, but also lets in a show of gaudinessTINSELAAcross 24: State support in snake danceNEBRASKAAAcross 25: Half a minute and drown, maybe, in thisUNDERTOWAAcross 26: Book on horse race, sayLEDGERDDown 2: Site for housing schemePLOTDDown 3: Suppression of wet fool by SpoonerCLAMP DOWNDDown 3: Suppression of wet fool by SpoonerCLAMPDOWNDDown 4: Macmillan found them 5 across, to say the leastEVENTSDDown 5: Think we'd love you? Unlikely - better keep what you haveTHEDEVILYOUKNOWDDown 6: Regarding test, see from a distanceREMOTELYDDown 7: Sailors from Epsom?SALTSDDown 8: Unwilling to enter territory of prowling troops in ScotlandMIDLOTHIANDDown 12: "Human tails" - distorted theory of population growthMALTHUSIANDDown 15: Nanny gets surname wrong on IDNURSEMAIDDDown 16: Knight whose fate hangs on his armLANCELOTDDown 19: Frolic that got doctor incarceratedGAMBOLDDown 21: Standing of a saint in churchCASTEDDown 22: Where to get counterfeit keys?SKYE