The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 21st November 2007 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st November 2007. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Dismiss objection - you blew it!SACKBUTAAcross 5: Plant's success rate of insecticide?BUGLOSSAAcross 9: Bird, one of Sinatra's few, decapitatedEGRETAAcross 10: See 14TOSTANDONAAcross 11: Squiggly red line not cutTENDERLOINAAcross 12: Island offering a taste of cannibalismBALIAAcross 14: Lack any evidence, so be forced to lie?NOTHAVEALEGAAcross 18: Unable to reach toilet, has taken weeCAUGHTSHORTAAcross 21: Denial honest, then back to frontNOPEAAcross 22: Underground worker filled with horror - our thoughts are with him?MIND READERAAcross 25: Fine, macho swimmerHUNKY-DORYAAcross 26: Live figure almost snatching another backEXISTAAcross 27: Anon ano?SHORTLYAAcross 28: What may swivel, may swivelROTATORDDown 1: See 3SHEETSDDown 2: French horn gets on with a trumpetCORONADDown 3: Drink in bedBETWEENTHEDDown 4: One might be running up into cupola to theologiseTOTALDDown 5: Baton said to be used in tortureBASTINADODDown 6: Swot up about a Pacific islandGUAMDDown 7: These eccentric first, third and fifth deliveries?ODDBALLSDDown 8: Against reforms, old South American citySANTIAGODDown 13: Community decisionSETTLEMENTDDown 15: Irritable, accepting single day for evidenceTESTIMONYDDown 16: Article is enabled, so it growsACANTHUSDDown 17: Come across behind horseBUMP INTODDown 19: Why Saatchi left Saatchi alone?ADRIFTDDown 20: Speaker sees climbing marsupial pouching animalORATORDDown 23: One removes water as doctor drinks old portDRYERDDown 24: Growth starts to tell, seeing your carnations coming upCYST