The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 5th October 2007 There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 5th October 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Chestnut one replaced with round bed coverCLOCHEAAcross 5: Reported boost given to ostentatiously holy ancient site of GreecePHILIPPIAAcross 9: A TV is deployed (air conditioned inside) for restricted flight area managerAVIARISTAAcross 10: Material from tip in east European republic reducedCHINTZAAcross 11: See 2FOR THE MOMENTAAcross 13: Very eastern, wearing body tubingVEINAAcross 14: Dying to ridicule entering bankMORIBUNDAAcross 17: Energy wasted at 100mph, I pronouncedEMPHATICAAcross 18: What lovers get for breakfast?OATSAAcross 20: Wrestling rag dolls, then, produces a good wrestling gripSTRANGLEHOLDAAcross 23: South African plant for a mealPROTEAAAcross 24: One of its three spoken component partsSYLLABLEAAcross 25: Want river to flow back to the east of Lincoln cityABERDEENAAcross 26: Possible follower of horse god having mealRADISHDDown 2: Not recorded as I speak the philosophy of the hedonist?LIVEDDown 3: Banter by creep gets the birdCHAFFINCHDDown 4: One fleeing his country before catching planeEMIGREDDown 5: Chanted by audience impatient with compére of satire show, to ruin any chance of success?PUTTHEMOCKERSONDDown 6: Private advanced in middle of another spell of rainIN CAMERADDown 7: Me, pretentious, girl? Au contraire, in a manner of speakingIDIOMDDown 8: Stop wrenching pendant out!PUTANENDTODDown 12: It hides in another's shell, head on pillar; it has appleHERMIT CRABDDown 15: Coarse group often used to go onlineBROADBANDDDown 16: Decline to speak about a no good uprisingSTAGNATEDDown 19: More relaxed prisonCOOLERDDown 21: A&E not involved in dancer getting out of bedASTIRDDown 22: Bonus puzzle, lacking number and namePLUS