The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st October 2006 There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st October 2006. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Good memory required by opera house producing the Ring?GROMMETAAcross 5: Bird almost right by vesselTITLARKAAcross 9: Letters somewhere in Brazil after deliveryPOSTNATALAAcross 10: Creep to a back yardTOADYAAcross 11: Cotton on a stickTWIGAAcross 12: Entire term wasted in seclusionRETIREMENTAAcross 14: A complaint by one relative of guinea pigAGOUTIAAcross 15: Saint Benny?GOODMANAAcross 16: To enthral a malicious woman we held backBEWITCHAAcross 18: One's cold to walk overICE CAPAAcross 18: One's cold to walk overICECAPAAcross 20: Chap engaged in battle with Denmark, Sweden, Norway etcMONARCHIESAAcross 21: Pugilist knocking out unknown South AfricanBOERAAcross 24: New tulip bulb may beLITUPAAcross 25: Dig up only half? That's weirdUNEARTHLYAAcross 26: True as scriptureSINCEREAAcross 27: Breathtaking passage under a bridgeNOSTRILDDown 1: Sensitive area gynaecologist's first to seeGSPOTDDown 2: Expulsion got us in troubleOUSTINGDDown 3: Fur from an emporium in KnightsbridgeMINKDDown 4: Novel format for TS Eliot, though he is novelTOTHELIGHTHOUSEDDown 5: Prolix speech before 1912?TALKINGNINETEENDDown 6: See 5TOTHEDOZENDDown 7: He has an objective - to go round a city in CaliforniaANAHEIMDDown 8: Grand railway starts to provide trains working with gasKRYPTONDDown 13: Slapstick item in sad picture isn't rightCUSTARD PIEDDown 16: Is clumsy butcher first with entrails?BUMBLESDDown 17: Churchill gains a lot of weightWINSTONDDown 19: Someone else on a roundabout before the ride startsANOTHERDDown 22: Majestic poem or the reverseROYALDDown 23: Sportsmen who are paid for writing? Not quitePROS