The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st July 2012 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st July 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Man returning with endless capital, a very old EuropeanYUGOSLAVAAcross 9: Speaker switching one and a half schedulesORATORAAcross 10: Losing lead, cry for horseROANAAcross 11: Flap by which sleazebag accesses toilets, dubiouslyEPIGLOTTISAAcross 12: Expert just cut into car, bumper dropping offAU FAITAAcross 14: Source of facts or otherwise in flier, text missing odd partsINTERNETAAcross 15: Writing crosswords is getting hardSETTINGAAcross 17: Entertainment with plenty of kicks, say, mum going in deepLEGSHOWAAcross 20: Small compartment in ’ouse with tight walls — something fishy about it?ROOMETTEAAcross 22: Shift dressing single birdBUDGIEAAcross 23: One studying animal behaviour got hostile, wildETHOLOGISTAAcross 24: Network free after midnightGRIDAAcross 25: Volume Four behind books ending in marriage, in fulfilment of vowsVOTIVEAAcross 26: From the water and wine, only beginning to get through fatLANDWARDDDown 1: Vegetarian food in flower, obsoleteOUTOFUSEDDown 2: High time for a palindrome?NOONDDown 3: Most senior school destroyed, though not all of itOLDESTDDown 4: Requiring a kind of light and energy, it is an eye problemUVEITISDDown 5: Spinner’s game allowed to get in the wayROULETTEDDown 6: After disco dancing, made 2 and 3 from 6, perhaps?FACTORISEDDDown 7: Gourmet's comment about oxygen, as elementIODINEDDown 13: Splattered on my coat is a muscle proteinACTOMYOSINDDown 16: Explosion of neon right after leakage of hydrogen gasNITROGENDDown 18: Actress Dawn, one under actor LaurenceOLIVIERIDDown 19: Chef regularly cut herb with a French markCEDILLADDown 21: Former tax on certain things requiring one's inspection for startersOCTROIDDown 22: Keen to see monster swallowing vesselBITINGDDown 24: Travel one way, then another, as a habitGOWN