The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 21st September 2005 There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st September 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 4: 8 in good orderSPRUCEAAcross 6: 8 heard a million times?CHESTNUTAAcross 9: Man in "The Darling Buds of May" with no family 8POPLARAAcross 10: 8 weak with love, we hearSYCAMOREAAcross 11: Setter's at work, doubled up, backing onto cool, filthy beastsHIPPOPOTAMIAAcross 15: Dish with special tasteRAREBITAAcross 17: Be a philanthropist planting western 8DOGWOODAAcross 18: Create endless choice with plenty of vocational trainingPOLYTECHNICAAcross 22: Steelier sort, most suspiciousLEERIESTAAcross 23: Declare most substantial capital squanderedATTESTAAcross 24: Criminal on horseback?MURDERERAAcross 25: In announcement, not all are given three monthsSUMMERDDown 1: Magnitude of books showing zero tax with company takeover?OCTAVODDown 2: People referred to date, or perhaps as far back as can be rememberedTHEYEARDOTDDown 3: Taking off top in, for example, admitting immoralityESCAPINGDDown 4: County comprising a very soft stoneSAPPHIREDDown 5: Harvesters claiming pee further decorates wallsREPAPERSDDown 7: When hands go up, so might the answerNOONDDown 8: Growth disheartening Irish townTREEDDown 12: Died in support of lost cause, beaten, easily soOUTCLASSEDDDown 13: 8 through which wind blown and ray of sunHORNBEAMDDown 14: Scoff about foreign noble or teacherEDUCATORDDown 16: Spite taken out in foul, given early bathBAPTISEDDDown 19: 8 caught, I believe, without rootCITRUSDDown 20: 8 the best picked?PLUMDDown 21: 8, or 2, sayPEAR