The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th August 2006 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th August 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Doesn't release senior and junior model trapped in houseHOLDSONTOAAcross 10: Part of inner tube, or of erstwhile umbrella?ILEUMAAcross 11: Selected portion of old publicationEXTRACTAAcross 12: Two fish for an appleCODLINGAAcross 13: Lambretta-rider taking exercise on one?MOPEDAAcross 14: The men put out first? Far from itUMPTEENTHAAcross 16: Film of girl catching Poles' disease and musical couple taking composer abackSUNSETBOULEVARDAAcross 19: Animal doctor interrupts cure in place of worshipCATHEDRALAAcross 21: Hunchback with mouth odourGOBBOAAcross 22: Get down to work keeping time right in musical passageSTRETTOAAcross 23: That's one fewer sent back as scrapSCISSELAAcross 24: Don't pass round the trainee's weapon!FLAILAAcross 25: Depressed by drug prevention campaignCRACK DOWNAAcross 25: Depressed by drug prevention campaignCRACKDOWNDDown 1: Notepaper?SHEET MUSICDDown 2: Panic, getting accommodation on the nailFLATSPINDDown 3: When women's dress is lifted in divine residence?ASGARDDDown 4: Discharge great quantities heavenwardSNOTDDown 5: Couple can't be converted to the work of Gilbert and George, sayCONCEPTUALDDown 6: Panoramic primrose, perhapsBIRD'S-EYEDDown 6: Panoramic primrose, perhapsBIRDSEYEDDown 7: Force invading state, but meaning no harmBENIGNDDown 8: Sticks up, self-satisfiedSMUGDDown 14: Firm brown digit set before novelistUMBERTOECODDown 15: Skid, sounding drunk, and collapse on the roadHYDROPLANEDDown 17: Before receiving shock treatment, I left - that may be raisedERECTILEDDown 18: Material decrees to restrict yobs swamping the east of FranceASBESTOSDDown 20: Headgear that's initially talk of the townTURBANDDown 21: Writer on 1, topless, talking incoherentlyGLINKADDown 22: Piece of furniture to date inconclusivelySOFADDown 23: Expressed contempt for minor altercationSPAT