The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 13th November 2012 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 13th November 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Figure fencing honest, when playing just as it should beON THE NOSEAAcross 10: Choice between bow and stern for Argonaut on a vesselAORTAAAcross 11: Bird gets to lick syrup around man's rearLAPWINGAAcross 12: An amount of money to be discussed, one feelsANTENNAAAcross 13: Loud music's pitchROCKAAcross 14: Chain I left among red coral at seaCORDILLERAAAcross 16: 17 down 4, so an 8 then?IFLOOKSAAcross 17: Swallow in the breezeDRAUGHTAAcross 19: Chance meeting of priest and criminal after murder almost backfiredLIKELIHOODAAcross 22: Territory better ventilated, by the sound of itAREAAAcross 24: Name girl in conversationMONIKERAAcross 25: Distribute the report of a yobbish baker?DOLE OUTAAcross 26: Catcher caught by danceCREELAAcross 27: Old number eight's heel on loose footwearTEAFORTWODDown 1: Bimbo superior to old Scot in rapidly deteriorating US foreign policyDOLLAR DIPLOMACYDDown 2: Unusual capital city ultimately abandonedATYPICALDDown 3: Primarily demonic and wicked — the master from hell?DEVILDDown 4: See 17GORGEOUSDDown 5: Explosive oath coming up, getting under people's skinPETARDDDown 6: Keeper of a fortress, having tinned beer?CASTELLANDDown 7: See 23ORANGEDDown 8: Picture — drawing that's deadly?FATALATTRACTIONDDown 15: See 16COULDKILLDDown 17: So lovely with an 8?DROP-DEADDDown 18: Swimmer overcoming scoundrel, contracted killerGARROTTEDDown 20: More concerned about the German issueKINDERDDown 21: There could be nothing to this pointHERETODDown 23: Online journal about not entirely smelly English fruitBLOOD