The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 14th January 2011 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 14th January 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Old king putting drink back in lists of optionsMENELAUSAAcross 9: Make king take rook, perhaps, then knightCROWNAAcross 10: Hide from vicious kingSKINAAcross 11: King of kings, many said foolishly, put on a little weightOZYMANDIASAAcross 12: King's names for religious reformerMARTINAAcross 14: King at Hereford, in part to collect harvestINGATHERAAcross 15: Some of our kings and English duke died in conflictsEDWARDSAAcross 17: Court champion dined with king repeatedlyFEDERERAAcross 20: King, for example, and brave jesterFACE CARDAAcross 22: See 12LUTHERAAcross 23: King who used rackets to secure a score of titlesBILLIEJEANAAcross 24: Friend that puts king in hopeless positionMATEAAcross 25: Rabble without love for cruel kingHERODAAcross 26: Celebrate about rise in king's payment to serving manSHILLINGDDown 1: Crewman holding all the cards? Just one person'sDECKHANDDDown 2: Cut when rewrittenHEWNDDown 3: Primate includes a bishop in blessingBABOONDDown 4: As I say, somehow crossing river in ancient kingdomASSYRIADDown 5: Figure in plane caught in old muddleOCTANGLEDDown 6: Spy setter wandering in shopping areaBONDSTREETDDown 7: Cover using precautionary phrase, in a wordIN CASEDDown 7: Cover using precautionary phrase, in a wordINCASEDDown 13: Representatives who should become less narrow-mindedTRAVELLERSDDown 16: Awful deeds and situations offering no way outDEADENDSDDown 18: Sport needing extra time in later part of dayEVENTINGDDown 19: Inauspicious jingle?ADVERSEDDown 21: Land being consumed by fireALIGHTDDown 22: Pulse is fast — over one-fiftyLENTILDDown 24: Part of Somalia or other country in AfricaMALI