The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 11th January 2008 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 11th January 2008. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Frustrated aims of one supplying hoodsMAFIOSIAAcross 5: 9 bears flowersBROOKSAAcross 9: Awful time to plug Gordon Bennett, governor!DIRECTORAAcross 10: No jolly wheeze like the endless conjoining with young woman I'd abandonedASTHMAAAcross 12: Corporation grasping type whose victims will be cut upBODY SNATCHERAAcross 15: Time to honour the old man of Hayes' draft constitutionFATHER'S DAYAAcross 17: Kay's dumped by artist for 9LEEAAcross 19: Colourless American takes top off 9RAYAAcross 20: Put together said evil article on weak glueSYNTHESIZEAAcross 22: Sophistry refined and internalised by Bill Gates finally becomes scienceASTROPHYSICSAAcross 26: Medieval lover has celebrated many a birthday with an amphetamineISOLDEAAcross 27: Vase shattered with Cleo's improvised jazz singingVOCALESEAAcross 28: Looks like a seasick sailor's means of preventing scurvy?GREENSAAcross 29: Close-bound sickly tree loggedENTEREDDDown 1: A way of being an old teenager at end of lineMODEDDown 2: 9 since diedFORDDDown 3: Butcher's former sexual partner left outONCE-OVERDDown 4: Woman takes duck on river to be a 9IVORYDDown 6: Small house, end of terrace, without a certain something - move elsewhereRESITEDDown 7: Chimp loath to get hit about the eyeOPHTHALMICDDown 8: Out of touch with reality when reacting to a blow on the head?STARRY-EYEDDDown 11: Really absorbed by a piece of informationIN FACTDDown 13: Disillusioned with Gordian intricacy and driving in the roughOFFROADINGDDown 14: No traveller at sea tangled with myth about loveSTAY-AT-HOMEDDown 16: Cut down bust, "Chesty"!SCYTHEDDown 18: Intended needs to be outside right church for 9MERCHANTDDown 21: Sutherland encircles Highway 9JORDANDDown 23: 9 square pitchSTONEDDown 24: Guardian's reported 9WEIRDDown 25: Buck up, 9?REED