The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th January 2006 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th January 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Boatman, say, rejected postJUNK MAILAAcross 9: Bird understood to be circling five hundred singers of "Jerusalem"GODWITAAcross 10: Sell out, as it might?SHOPAAcross 11: Ship opening lineICEBREAKERAAcross 12: Hemingway's last words blown to bits, losing consciousnessDROWSYAAcross 14: Dance musical needing no introductionRIGADOONAAcross 15: Worth keeping party in mindCALIBREAAcross 17: Perhaps, if user intended to maintain earliest of relationships, he could search here?FRIENDSAAcross 20: Easy job to get hold of outside homeSINECUREAAcross 22: In Germany, a wrong turning reaches destination to its northNORWAYAAcross 23: Arabs cutting arm, playing aroundWOMANISINGAAcross 24: They're close, close to getting top manKINGAAcross 25: Sea where river cuts through stateMARINEAAcross 26: Cavalier in solitary, torturedROYALISTDDown 1: Ecstasy on drugs (hard), or lift superb - experiencing this?EUPHORIADDown 2: Throw rubbish in it, or missSKIPDDown 3: Hole where rodent has it buriedCAVITYDDown 4: A pin in both directions round noted directionALLEGRODDown 5: Twice scale up culture mediumAGAR-AGARDDown 6: 24 acrosses of verse?EDWARD LEARDDown 7: Dramatist's devout emperorPINERODDown 13: Bad image in witch transformed - with this?WHITE MAGICDDown 16: See 17REUNITEDDDown 18: Identify cube divided by a number not written downDIAGNOSEDDown 19: It's plain, anything but 13 involved - with this?DEVILRYDDown 21: I fly around British feature on mapISOBARDDown 22: Asian city raising an artistNAGOYADDown 24: Line in clothes - for a ScotsmanKILT