The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 24th April 2015 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 24th April 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Killing gone mad, countless initially die in tormentGENOCIDEAAcross 9: One has to step back beyond cold, cold placeICE CAPAAcross 9: One has to step back beyond cold, cold placeICECAPAAcross 10: I fled 26 neighbourIRANAAcross 11: Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopelessACOUSTICALAAcross 12: Lively agent stealing Biblical vesselSPARKYAAcross 14: See 7BOOMDEAYAAcross 15: Khachaturian's inspiring mount, main reason being so 26, possibly?ANAGRAMAAcross 17: One demonstrating hurt with a US-26 voiceMARCHERAAcross 20: A game one has first to accept, with good justificationAPOLOGIAAAcross 22: Unconscious, potential killer withholding shelterASLEEPAAcross 23: One arresting the flow of blood to vessel, quite tightTOURNIQUETAAcross 24: Initial characters seen in translation of youthful Saroyan playsTOYSAAcross 25: America on strike over a riftHIATUSAAcross 26: Remain displaced, an early European ChristianARMENIANDDown 1: Reptile quietly dividing landTERRAPINDDown 2: Party elected to killDO INDDown 3: A tear coming up over hundred-year crimePIRACYDDown 4: Defence in question supporting leaders in remorseless empireREDOUBTDDown 5: Power declared to be on the rise, or a scattered people?DIASPORADDown 6: Publication has overlooked information on April 8 across, unfortunatelyPERIODICALDDown 7: Mountain for 26s to climb over report, time to accept blame finally for the song of yesteryearTARARADDown 13: Consistency shown, say, with every second of guilt — wonder about that?REGULARITYDDown 16: Tigranes distraught, most indignantANGRIESTDDown 18: Ordinary citizen in Yerevan actively maintaining patriotism to the lastEVERYMANDDown 19: Pure heart in birth, unaffectedNATURALDDown 21: French-26 who raced to welcome independence primarily, cheersPROSITDDown 22: Disorder while half of this map is incompleteASTHMADDown 24: Very little seen of atonement in YerevanTINY