The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 25th January 2010 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 25th January 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Poet, novelist and critic providing wild parties after midnightGRAVESAAcross 4: Dynasty brought to premature end? Hard cheese!ROMANOAAcross 9: Dynasty celebrated in poetrySUNGAAcross 10: One joins it in current local planINITIATIVEAAcross 11: Enemy confounded by one kind of ArabYEMENIAAcross 12: Events one's enshrined in lyric poetryEPISODESAAcross 13: Standing wavePERMANENTAAcross 15: Inside house a lamp, primarily, provides overhead lightingHALOAAcross 16: What's more needed by prodigal son?ALSOAAcross 17: Sacred work religious leader put into moving picturesSCRIPTUREAAcross 21: Lacking confidence, son is advanced in easy jobSINECUREAAcross 22: Provided backing when company merger is failureFIASCOAAcross 24: Hold between 55 and 56?HALF NELSONAAcross 25: Get some help at home, in a wayPATHAAcross 26: Wrongly list it in place of treatiesTILSITAAcross 27: Port of Spain, wherein old woman and a young one returnedMALAGADDown 1: Swiss food man's consumed right beforeGRUYEREDDown 2: Fish that's found between raysANGLEDDown 3: Rabble-rousing after leader goes for issueEDITIONDDown 5: Where axes cut, for a startORIGINDDown 6: For whom a spin to Saturn?ASTRONAUTDDown 7: Otherwise struggle in the direction of Umbrian townORVIETODDown 8: Kind of parties marginally represented hereWINEANDCHEESEDDown 14: Smart conversion securing energy from fuel, giving great performanceMASTERFULDDown 16: Product of Spanish press that's not entirely factual, I can tellALICANTDDown 18: In Spain, fan targets one of their royalsINFANTADDown 19: Ingredient of Italian desserts actor mixed with itRICOTTADDown 20: Exhume ribs, among which other bones can be foundHUMERIDDown 23: Kind of male found in Athens, originallyALPHA