The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 14th September 2005 There are 14 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 14th September 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Hope left here for a lesser templeYORKMINSTERAAcross 9: Most of the Roman town crier's ultimate American witTHURBERAAcross 10: Abort school meals for East Europeans in hereBORTSCHAAcross 11: Concerning France, before and possibly after the votesREFERENDAAAcross 12: Leak from a lighterSPILLAAcross 13: Fearsome Scottish soldier who won stripes from universityUNCOAAcross 14: Craving to soak Huxley's palliative in a mixDIPSOMANIAAAcross 16: Iron skirts? Time, I see, to be demanding women's rightsFEMINISTICAAcross 19: See 1 down & 7BOOKAAcross 20: Expression of relativity from artist to Spanish relativeRATIOAAcross 21: With which insects feel sick in awful UN messSENSILLUMAAcross 23: Lend an ear to Livingstone!HEARKENAAcross 24: Insomniac screened here in WashingtonSEATTLEAAcross 25: Poleaxe tart? Mad project!EXTRAPOLATEDDown 1: "I say! You, a Macbeth forsaken? O, rubbish!" (Lady M on his appearance)YOURFACEMYTHANEDDown 2: Black bottom outside giving concrete supportREBARDDown 3: Making Bunthorne declaim: "I would hear this!"MERANTIDDown 4: Sudanese hairstyle turned up on ScotsmenNUBIANSDDown 5: Killing hybrid rose in the fourth dimensionTIRESOMEDDown 6: At which the odds are five to one against a hole in oneRUSSIAN ROULETTEDDown 7: Surprise! A cuff below the belt aimed at turf accountancyATURNUPFORTHEDDown 8: Indian outfit abandoned a marsh walk before the incoming Dutch seaSHALWARKAMEEZDDown 15: Successful potter here made richerINPOCKETDDown 17: Operatically secret smoker giving up when entering a year in RomeSUSANNADDown 18: One's company sustaining one dramatistIONESCODDown 22: See 1 downISASA