The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 31st October 2011 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 31st October 2011. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Protector of child in a gun raid shotGUARDIANAAcross 9: Grind away, getting the answer to crossword clue, finallyERODEAAcross 10: Colluded, oddly, in something like thisCLUEAAcross 11: A danger with a TV broadcast that's cutting-edgeAVANT-GARDEAAcross 12: No 1 piece of fiction in part of IndiaGOALIEAAcross 14: Desires no end of money up front for what one's madeEARNINGSAAcross 15: Crib clue from Crucible, for exampleANAGRAMAAcross 17: For me, goal is to tuck into health foodBRENDANAAcross 20: Judge I'm entering final part of puzzle, sayESTIMATEAAcross 22: Second most important role in musical I rejected for youSOLVERAAcross 23: Estimating badly as puzzle expertENIGMATISTAAcross 24: A dozen players go after this role in Shakespearean comedyPUCKAAcross 25: 8 22 down providing a lot of fun in endless career?RUFUSAAcross 26: Like our superior education, excessively on display?OVERUSEDDDown 1: Demolish an impression with this kind of cluePULL DOWNDDown 2: Araucaria exemplifies this sort of diagramTREEDDown 3: Cross words from one caught in trafficTIRADEDDown 4: Theoretically practical 8, perhapsON PAPERDDown 5: Don from Oxford, say, with funny clue about time on runLECTURERDDown 6: Kind of symmetry that's reasonable, incorporating old tradition, primarilyROTATIONALDDown 7: Boatman as main 22 down, saySEA DOGDDown 7: Boatman as main 22 down, saySEADOGDDown 13: Finishing session on keyboard with nothing very loud after unusually long gigLOGGINGOFFDDown 16: Piece of verse a peasant composedANAPAESTDDown 18: Business types putting a Conservative in the best of spirits?AGENCIESDDown 19: Left country without capital — new work either 22 could useLEXICONDDown 21: Small way in which soldier protects sleeping comrades?SENTRYDDown 22: Street being out of order, one provides direction to gameSETTERDDown 24: Saintly fellow — friendly type with top-class inputPAUL