The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd October 2009 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd October 2009. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Insect after vegetables for Hamlet's slavePEASANTAAcross 5: Comic to be counted?STAND-UPAAcross 5: Comic to be counted?STANDUPAAcross 9: Preserve carpenter (in a dream) and injure French invalidQUINCEMARMALADEAAcross 10: Number in district where people fightARENAAAcross 11: Make heated and dry?DEHYDRATEAAcross 12: Geordie resident perversely entertains Yorkshire leaderTYNESIDERAAcross 14: Faked evidence of factory growthPLANTAAcross 15: Holy man in charge of a kirkFAKIRAAcross 16: Cutter gripping clothes: what happens if he cuts his finger?SWEARWORDAAcross 18: Not kind of weather for Freud to be at home?INCLEMENTAAcross 21: Fiddle return of gameSTRADAAcross 22: Fund-raising event by Banbury's leading charactersBRINGANDBUYSALEAAcross 23: Old 16 about good man, one with brainsEGGHEADAAcross 24: Some bowling by amateur to coverOVERLAYDDown 1: Appetising, as in drinkPIQUANTDDown 2: Far from 7, with a preference — to imprison rotten cad KevinALIVEANDKICKINGDDown 3: One putting clock back arrives without carriageARCHAISERDDown 4: Shy boy's instinctsTIMIDDDown 5: More to pay for tea during boilingSURCHARGEDDown 6: Prize poster brought about considerable hostilityAWARDDDown 7: A tragic love in Deck 1, kidnapped by Scottish fiend, with no hope of revivalDEADASADOORNAILDDown 8: Setter drops in, keeping judge from monitorPREFECTDDown 13: Spotted snake's head at giant's village — inside was good enoughDISCERNEDDDown 14: Columns arranged as fairies would do it?PERISTYLEDDown 15: Crumbly as chips?FRIABLEDDown 17: Stranger in Dyfed starving and on his last legsDODDERYDDown 19: Good shots to point — will get to 50 in timeEAGLEDDown 20: Both appreciation and disapprobation are forbiddenTABOO