The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st July 2015 There are 13 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st July 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Part of the score Bilbao got wrongOBBLIGATOAAcross 10: Match ends of "star" and "catarrh", say? "Hum" and "come"?RHYMEAAcross 11: Country road bizarrely appended to old coinECUADORAAcross 12: Shortcoming involving student getting put on new courseDEFLECTAAcross 13: Cut corners and speed-read pageSKIMPAAcross 14: UK reel, triple forte, causing commotionKERFUFFLEAAcross 16: Wait to catch volunteers, returning, breaking ballsDANCEATTENDANCEAAcross 19: Small waterway or roadway concealing a mussel shellSTREAMLETAAcross 21: Jones's partner goes to middle of 21 down to seek waterDOWSEAAcross 22: Threaten to be left to finishPORTENDAAcross 23: Animal shelter overturned, engulfed by unpleasant smell of animalMUSKRATAAcross 24: Dispenser of Dutch courage (nerve of sorts)OPTICAAcross 25: Pants, perhaps, at bottom of riverUNDERWEARDDown 1: Puritan's urgent call about birdseed mostly getting scatteredSOBERSIDESDDown 2: Cleaning number one instrument holding laptop upABLUTIONDDown 3: What fearful people have to finish?WIND UPDDown 3: What fearful people have to finish?WINDUPDDown 4: Fishwife (last of 6)?PARRDDown 5: Custom keeps the German people marvellingWONDERMENTDDown 6: Without supporting rising, poet's deepPROFOUNDDDown 7: Personally intervening, stifle symbolist's ascentMYSELFDDown 8: Match lacking a bit of 25VESTDDown 14: Exercised crowd control with peculiar instrumentKETTLEDRUMDDown 15: Simple city housing oriental soldiers and sailorELEMENTARYDDown 17: Blades slicing bits of peaches regularly disappearEVANESCEDDown 18: Grins salaciously about following novel footageNEWSREELDDown 20: Right cultivated, collecting one collector's pieceRARITYDDown 21: Rat, of course, guttedDESERTDDown 22: Story in bedPLOTDDown 23: Fashion, or endless exhibitor thereofMODE