The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th December 2005 There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th December 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Give a spa a bad name and elephants will enjoy itMUD BATHAAcross 1: Give a spa a bad name and elephants will enjoy itMUDBATHAAcross 5: Talk food in 9 townCHATHAMAAcross 9: Object of contemplation heard relating to a serviceNAVALAAcross 10: Practice established with time: it's in a way to telegraph poleTRADITIONAAcross 11: See 25ANDTHELASHAAcross 12: Sign for staff of muscle formationCLEFAAcross 14: Direction in Sussex town: home guards (Latin, not English) are in Form I - consoling thought (25 11 for example?)WORSETHINGSAAcross 18: See 14HAPPENATSEAAAcross 21: Security letting craft through?LOCKAAcross 22: Sticker went quickly into cold travelITINERANCYAAcross 25: Churchill's view of 9 10, a possible clue to Moody's health - sand blastingRUMSODOMYAAcross 26: See 27CHASEAAcross 27: Male embracing girl in church owns Midland areaCANNOCKAAcross 28: A boy in the wrong beat the crusadersSALADINDDown 1: One who serves food outside UlsterMENIALDDown 2: Separate entry into water to catch fishDIVIDEDDown 3: A vegetable heartless lot cut inside for seven whole daysALLTHEWEEKDDown 4: Accommodation on the danger line?HOTELDDown 5: Will this society have no education?CLASSLESSDDown 6: A "Y" is one alsoAXISDDown 7: Musical with a little bit to learn in a little breakHAIRLINEDDown 8: Obvious person if he is translatedMANIFESTDDown 13: Many in the entrances left for the stageTHEATRICALDDown 15: Spooner's after the drift man, hence the cracklingROAST PORKDDown 16: Angry as some cricketers about openingCHOLERICDDown 17: Second enclosure enclosing clock-climbers climbing, for exampleSPECIMENDDown 19: Where nurses may be like Christian soldiers?ONWARDDDown 20: Monster to see shortly in Newry, possiblyWYVERNDDown 23: The poet can't decideNOYESDDown 24: The explorer is gamePOLO