The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th December 2009 There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th December 2009. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Parent at home to couple getting spliced?MAINBRACEAAcross 6: See 26CASTAAcross 10: Catch a girl to loveLASSOAAcross 11: Heroin substitute should be, in my viewMETHOUGHTAAcross 12: Roadside worker, one to land at sea?DITCHERAAcross 13: Revolutionary poem? No, a rude compositionRONDEAUAAcross 14: Referee with his belt turning to cow?WHISTLE-BLOWERAAcross 14: Referee with his belt turning to cow?WHISTLEBLOWERAAcross 17: Graceful, innit? — playing on the wild sideLUNATIC FRINGEAAcross 21: Inconclusive assault on man with caseATTACHEAAcross 22: Further entry into prisonNEWGATEAAcross 24: French writer (not English) on board with riflesSMALLARMSAAcross 25: Revolution without its first complaintCROUPAAcross 26: 20's half hidden in the open when there's no sunOVERAAcross 27: Setter with a monitoring device fitted about to transport him to prisonMEATWAGONDDown 1: Catastrophe for officer, partner to Jones, among other ranks?MELT DOWNDDown 1: Catastrophe for officer, partner to Jones, among other ranks?MELTDOWNDDown 2: Popular group sees the smaller pictureINSETDDown 3: Fans can be unreliable in their enthusiasmBLOWHOTANDCOLDDDown 4: Shakespearean lord of the Golden BlackbirdAUMERLEDDown 5: In which Henry VII rallied his troops to make slavesENTHRALDDown 7: L-shaped bar in a longer formANGLE IRONDDown 8: Prance around — the last way to treat a ball?TITTUPDDown 9: What is this Jersey? An exercise in vowel sounds?HOWNOWBROWNCOWDDown 15: Embarrassed by finding items of Royal Mail late as everILL AT EASEDDown 16: Flag on vessel as young as ever?PETER PANDDown 18: There's about zero miles from what can be provedTHEOREMDDown 19: Prison as acknowledgment of gameCANASTADDown 20: Lieutenant caught the fool in 10 10CASSIODDown 23: Forward way to TipperaryALONG