The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th September 2014 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th September 2014. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Down with runners fitted with electronic part of 8 21 25BLUESKIESAAcross 6: See 16GOESAAcross 8: Possible allusion to Fitzgerald's work about dynasty: "A major 20th-century contribution to culture"THEGREATAAcross 9: Timber-lined housing contributor to 8 21 25BERLINAAcross 10: Start a new paragraph: "Accepted depression ..."?INDENTAAcross 11: Made upright again, so not officially recognised by the Stock Exchange?UNLISTEDAAcross 12: Religious choir leader causing prison uprising on Dartmoor, sayCANTORAAcross 15: Fort put right inside specially constructed moatTHEALAMOAAcross 16: You name it, it's acceptable as part of 8 21 25ANYTHINGAAcross 19: Peelers' practice of immersing the underworld in biblical content, brieflyNUDISMAAcross 21: See 8AMERICANAAcross 22: Old drink, one much represented in 8 21 25PORTERAAcross 24: Violet almost lodging with loveINDIGOAAcross 25: See 8SONGBOOKAAcross 26: Great interpreter of 8 21 25 (but not the one mentioned therein)ELLAAAcross 27: Record past, up to yesterday's ultimate revelationDISCOVERYDDown 1: Playwright: "I didn't get that in bar"BEHANDDown 2: Gunshot tune played as preparationUNGUENTDDown 3: Sensed salmonSMELTDDown 4: Battered tin (result of too much rain) being cared forINTRUSTDDown 5: Officer getting vessel to change directionSUBALTERNDDown 6: Gloria's sporting fine opalGIRASOLDDown 7: Fancy rim is deep, which is not skin-deepEPIDERMISDDown 13: A word to the wise exemplifies such usage of a retuned mandolinADNOMINALDDown 14: Fixed, in-car, flashy water holderRAIN CLOUDDDown 17: "Matron, I developed stomach pains"TORMINADDown 18: Kelly and relative forming group?GENESISDDown 20: Persistent Egyptian god breaks twice as much, having no oxygenDURABLEDDown 22: Lowbrow entertainment — god, turn over!PANTODDown 23: Perverse old you, catching a viral disease which is connected with resinEPOXY