The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 20th March 2009 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 20th March 2009. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Don't admit Jones's partner's holding is a 5DISAVOWAAcross 5: It takes a god to injure (badly) hellJUPITERAAcross 9: Finding commerce so sadly devoid of ecstasy, I ferry the kidsSOCCERMOMAAcross 10: Last words on monarch are not so greenRIPERAAcross 11: University on its last drinkYALEAAcross 12: Loveless marriages — good, dangerous, or boring?UNINSPIREDAAcross 14: Top man serving drinks first to man of fashionARMANIAAcross 15: Do we drive vehicles off the road? Golly!JEEPERSAAcross 16: Bush beat me for king and I get snatched by French composerDUKAKISAAcross 18: Get together again? No kiddingREALLYAAcross 20: Zeal displayed by English humanistsENTHUSIASMAAcross 21: In rock, pull a passenger out of lineSTOWAAcross 24: Brilliance of man confined by some of his eldersSHEENAAcross 25: Birds don't start fighting around edges of the lakeULLSWATERAAcross 26: Book on the bench?RESERVEAAcross 27: Name of economist and army organiserMAYNARDDDown 1: Don't talk during homework, gorgeous!DISHYDDown 2: Cryptic clues with a religious origin, unlike thisSECULARDDown 3: See 22VIEWDDown 4: We keep signs in place outside their opening time: we are teasingly famous for …WOMENSINSTITUTEDDown 5: … a chap with record player not quietly reading with small boy aroundJAMANDJERUSALEMDDown 6: Far from centre page, goddess in dangerPERIPHERALDDown 7: Hint by old actor in EssexTIPTREEDDown 8: First notes after second notes in church?REREDOSDDown 13: Angel about to go to hell — or limbo?BACK BURNERDDown 16: Sideboard behind the scenes?DRESSERDDown 17: Gear numbers show state of anxietyKITTENSDDown 19: Happy girl? It turns up twice in fieldLETITIADDown 22: Outlook when king and lord briefly struggle amid great successWORLDDDown 23: See 21AWAY