The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 17th September 2010 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 17th September 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Virtuous card game?PATIENCEAAcross 9: Party removed from boredom, shuffled for card gameOMBREAAcross 10: Eccentric tail in blue fishSCADAAcross 11: Coin "river horse", perhaps, for this large beast?RHINOCEROSAAcross 12: In fish, I had a fishy time?FRIDAYAAcross 14: All there is in you reversed by part of songUNIVERSEAAcross 15: Books alongside maps almost leading to a US cityATLANTAAAcross 17: Card game in which lady regularly entering suit withdrawing, for the most partOLD MAIDAAcross 20: Card game with bone (not one), behind bone in arrangement of those bones?CRIBBAGEAAcross 22: Spades, dark — or not?SUNLITAAcross 23: Card game opposite, going back to break forwardSTRIP POKERAAcross 24: Go to pieces in card gameSNAPAAcross 25: Fish in newspaperARGUSAAcross 26: Two card games from "Animal Farm" and "Star Wars" for "The Man from UNCLE"NAPOLEONDDown 1: Phone people about capital, getting to grips with a card gameBACCARATDDown 2: Jokers so delirious?WILDDDown 3: Terribly angry about Labour leader, get knotted!GNARLYDDown 4: Card game from spelling "quiz", encapsulating its misspelling?BEZIQUEDDown 5: Of those settling in, zero left standing in fuelCOLONIALDDown 6: From the south, identifies 26's isle, welcoming in a sailorABLE SEAMANDDown 7: Love's about love, moving to the heart?VENOUSDDown 13: Design card game for entrance, onceDRAWBRIDGEDDown 16: Quiet man requesting first of tankards, don't gulp it all up?TRAPPISTDDown 18: It's twice more difficult (without energy) to carry a copierIMITATORDDown 19: Looking to understand cardSEEKINGDDown 21: Knock what the discerning vermin wouldn't buy?RAT-TATDDown 22: Entrance to heaven cuts skyward for angelSERAPHDDown 24: See 26SOLO