The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th November 2010 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th November 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Two bits won't start to get you a musical instrumentTOM-TOMAAcross 4: Fly to Suez regularly? Do!TSETSEAAcross 9: Blair debonairly relaxed in academic institutionBODLEIANLIBRARYAAcross 10: Petty Officer First Class (Retd) seeing scene of recent warBOSNIAAAcross 11: Clever fellow's concealed supporter?BRAINBOXAAcross 12: Go through Lampeter, heading away, going off eastPERMEATEAAcross 14: Shaun stripped, then went ahead and pulledHAULEDAAcross 15: American teen hacked into newsgroupsUSENETAAcross 18: Smelling a rat, old spymaster suppressed then rejected CIA briefAROMATICAAcross 21: In short, it's no country for the manyNUMEROUSAAcross 22: 4 thus gives us our instruction to leaveEFFOFFAAcross 24: I sit and chop nuts, hungry, marginalised and unworldlyUNSOPHISTICATEDAAcross 25: Villains vandalise van, kindly keeping back contentsKNAVESAAcross 26: High-class carbon steel alloySELECTDDown 1: Anything northern upset a certain small groupTWOSOMEDDown 2: Look, chaps — round, juicy fruit!MELONDDown 3: "Coral Island" is good; "Home and Away" ultimately isn'tOKINAWADDown 5: Leaves wasp in a cheese sandwichSPINACHDDown 6: Sadly Australian team's leader is missing extraordinary spinnerTARANTULADDown 7: Drug to reverse progress of Ebola virus essentially saved part of bodyEAR LOBEDDown 7: Drug to reverse progress of Ebola virus essentially saved part of bodyEARLOBEDDown 8: Third of blue-collar labour force disheartened and lacking opportunityUNABLEDDown 13: State nominates liberalMINNESOTADDown 16: Soviet revolutionary family has sex in a revolutionary waySPUTNIKDDown 17: You once held mythical creature's footTROCHEEDDown 18: Provide backing for top guitar playerASSISTDDown 19: Former love, born female, male on the insideONE-TIMEDDown 19: Former love, born female, male on the insideONETIMEDDown 20: Student swallowed poison to put an end to itINFLECTDDown 23: Hostility to English eccentricFLAKE