The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 4th November 2005 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th November 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Can he end IRA gats? Hell, no! Je faux!GENERALAAcross 5: 1 across, speaking of that bush kangaroo with loveSCIPIOAAcross 9: One with no label needs Irish backing on the menuRIGATONIAAcross 10: Insurance company retreat over cut backPRUNEDAAcross 12: See 1DECHASTELAINAAcross 15: Immoderate, but natural to snatch Dior creationINORDINATEAAcross 17: See 19HERAAcross 19: She saved her people from the Medes thereofESTAAcross 20: 1 across taking a gander with energy out of ruined barnALANBROOKEAAcross 22: What owls do with goats outside English songfestsHOOTENANNIESAAcross 26: You and I are backward? That takes the (ship's) biscuit!WEEVILAAcross 27: Not "Enigma Variations"? No, Monsieur, it's a tragedyANTIGONEAAcross 28: First twenty-four hours in King Henry's revolutionary capitalRIYADHAAcross 29: One's on equal terms with anotherSYNONYMDDown 1: 1 across countermanding order to "Turn left!"GORTDDown 2: Close trap over HenryNIGHDDown 3: Goes over the same ground with cheap rollersRETREADSDDown 4: Give suspended sentence out of courtLYNCHDDown 6: 1 across shot Lorna with a knifeCARVERDDown 7: Swan with claw winning the endless contestPENTATHLONDDown 8: Resounded with a weaving of tapestriesOUDENARDESDDown 11: Royal Ballet star has somehow put on weightASHTONDDown 13: 1 across: is 'e involved with "Erewhon Revisited"?EISENHOWERDDown 14: 1 across: setter's input, "Not poor Mr Gladstone's monicker, Your Majesty!"MONTGOMERYDDown 16: Barbarian drowning everyone in rising stream in IndiaNULLANDDown 18: A nastier form of water supplyARTESIANDDown 21: Man one buried in the poet's ground: this poet?HESIODDDown 23: Cardinals hearing Teutonic rejectionsNINESDDown 24: See 1 acrossJOHNDDown 25: Bisexual part of the Channel Islands?HERM