The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 20th July 2007 There are 13 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 20th July 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 5: Religious works as originally scoredCREDOSAAcross 6: Player at higher pitch missing openingHARPERAAcross 9: Mussorgsky providing sets of notes ahead of timeMODESTAAcross 10: Creating harmony with a ringing sound without turning headATTUNINGAAcross 11: A leading singer, missing very briefly, returned in operaAIDAAAcross 12: Support for performer in mass - solo is cut outMUSIC STOOLAAcross 13: Music makers play casually in a form of tennisINSTRUMENTSAAcross 18: Conductor didn't allow listening to original recordingBANDMASTERAAcross 21: Source of notes of Bank of England, originallyOBOEAAcross 22: Apparatus for capturing performance of woodwind instrumentRECORDERAAcross 23: Drums of one sailor used in another's backingTABLASAAcross 24: Chants arranged as piece of musicSNATCHAAcross 25: Mars, for example, part of thematic compositionPLANETDDown 1: Composer and old lover dividing half of scoreTELEMANNDDown 2: Drum offered by male to maidenTOM-TOMDDown 3: Religious music with archaically grotesque line in churchCANTICLEDDown 4: Old instrument and piano at home in collectionSPINETDDown 5: Concert's opening with dance by popular composerCHOPINDDown 7: As required by patron, do special pieces of musicRONDOSDDown 8: Some of the strings in a big Strauss compositionBASSGUITARSDDown 14: Hurry central section in conducting passage conveying emotional responseTEAR DUCTDDown 15: Part of brass band runs into grave individualTROMBONEDDown 16: Composer's tanglesRAVELSDDown 17: Musical genius carries little weight in the marketplaceMOZARTDDown 19: Drunken revelry's beginning with vodka for noted CzechDVORAKDDown 20: Something child plays with famous conductorRATTLE