The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 27th September 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 27th September 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: One police department infiltrating trade of a divine killerDEICIDALAAcross 5: The yoke, say, of a rainbowYELLOWAAcross 9: Quote work by Greek character making a comeback, unlike Homer literallyUNPOETICAAcross 10: Natal section rulerCAESARAAcross 12: Soil so fertile the Italian removed to cultivate plantLOOSESTRIFEAAcross 15: See 4BREADAAcross 17: Old prince joining the workers: they can let off steamEXHALANTSAAcross 18: Damned fools captured Ireland in the battleSOLFERINOAAcross 19: Sway one to enter, say, into the navyREIGNAAcross 20: Hard life, or nothing could be more death-defyingFOOLHARDIERAAcross 24: Antibodies combined to attack small mass pneumo-serinesIMMUNEAAcross 25: See 24RESPONSEAAcross 26: Mjollnir, a London soccer player?HAMMERAAcross 27: Serenely reticent retiring bit of stuffTERYLENEDDown 1: Scrape the bottom with this instrument?DOUBLE-BASSDDown 2: Suggest a rodeo competitor has entered wrongfullyIMPROPERLYDDown 3: Descartes declaring himself at peace with her?IRENEDDown 4: What's the bird call note to be? Fie! (ie perhaps that of the 5 26)ALITTLEBITOFDDown 6: Toothsome artist?ENAMELLERDDown 7: Retiring lexicographer's ultimatum?LASTDDown 8: See 7WORDDDown 11: See 4WITHNOCHEESEDDown 13: Genesis Chapter IX (i): epic struggle!INCIPIENCEDDown 14: As in spoken art and Roman English, such verse is disconnectedASYNARTETEDDown 16: Grass up a receiver: the buck stops hereDEERFENCEDDown 21: Return to senderREPLYDDown 22: Looks good enough to eat, does she?DISHDDown 23: Does he lead prayer for openers? Is Mohammed a Muslim?IMAM