The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 8th July 2011 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 8th July 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: See 5OCTOPUSAAcross 5: Unlikely World Cup celebrity chose to put balls past mePAULTHEAAcross 9: G8 leader installedPUT INAAcross 9: G8 leader installedPUTINAAcross 10: Sofa, perhaps, where Torode's first broadcast rejected by dinerTWO-SEATERAAcross 10: Sofa, perhaps, where Torode's first broadcast rejected by dinerTWOSEATERAAcross 11: Dinosaur and ferret — one's one's oneSQUARE ROOTAAcross 12: Huge beast knocks shopping centre off islandORCAAAcross 14: Acknowledgment, the result of lying face down behind cow?PATONTHEBACKAAcross 18: Block of flats, perhaps?KEY SIGNATUREAAcross 21: Wizard of Oz companion, little one close to Dorothy's heart?TOTOAAcross 22: Buff model is plastic, injecting last of polypropyleneSPECIALISTAAcross 25: Girl on musical instrument, not piano — another one?HARMONICAAAcross 26: I'm a drinker, say, to become hard and coldICE UPAAcross 27: Mixture of okra and wee, stirred againREAWOKEAAcross 28: Feminist dressing as long-haired biker?GREASERDDown 1: Struggle against work modelOPPOSEDDown 2: Mummy, mummy, naughty naughty!TUT-TUTDDown 3: Amid 17, shorten form of an organPANCREATICDDown 4: Time to plug utter rogue, primarily, as lustful typeSATYRDDown 5: Fabrication of leader in Observer that's top copyPHOTOSTATDDown 6: Druggie's democratic or republican monarch?USERDDown 7: Test carrying university over to classTUTORIALDDown 8: English gun ships showing flagsEARMARKSDDown 13: Shake up orange vigorously, carried by rocketREORGANISEDDown 15: Wine lover taking gallons from pigeonhole, sloshedOENOPHILEDDown 16: Vessel placed in middle of maidservant's drawerSKETCHERDDown 17: Sound of snake crying more, in a frenzyHYSTERIADDown 19: Natural growth's cut twice, creating muscleBICEPSDDown 20: Unconscious state, way high otherwiseSTUPORDDown 23: Family planning's ultimate ringCLANGDDown 24: Modern composer's rules of grammar: double negatives are a ___ ?NONO