The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 21st August 2008 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 21st August 2008. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Penny, perhaps, joining team, we hear, for matchCOINCIDEAAcross 5: God given a vote - zeroAPOLLOAAcross 9: They may be standing, but sit on rotten eggs at firstOVATIONSAAcross 10: See 22MADRIDAAcross 12: Office workers sign in invisible ink, perhaps?SECRETARIESAAcross 15: Biting right into tartACRIDAAcross 17: Mere list one's pocketedPOOL TABLEAAcross 18: Lift fish to find insectCOCKROACHAAcross 19: Further, far from a starEXTRAAAcross 20: Huge cups champion returnedDOUBLEDBACKAAcross 24: Kll Paul's salad plantENDIVEAAcross 25: Full beam so wonderful?DAZZLINGAAcross 26: Decapitate bendy subjectLIABLEAAcross 27: Understate?HYPNOSISDDown 1: One's irritable having to go over plotCROSSPATCHDDown 2: One's out in a cold clergyman's officeINACCURACYDDown 3: Where the Atacama Desert is unlike the Sahara, say?CHILEDDown 4: Boy rising around ten ordered tablet for oral problemDENTAL PLAQUEDDown 6: Not unknown in Tory leadership to reform, thank heavens!PRAISETHEDDown 7: See 6LORDDDown 8: Impressing theologian? Fat chance!ODDSDDown 11: Sad about setter's love, solver's left for drug pusherTIMOTHY LEARYDDown 13: The last writes?OBITUARIESDDown 14: Once again wraps cake baked with grapesREPACKAGESDDown 16: Reckless parent carrying about immoralityDAREDEVILDDown 21: Sleep until noon (twelve)DOZENDDown 22: American's very angry having to deliver soccer teamREALDDown 23: Lit bulb overhead? One almost goneIDEA