The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 4th August 2015 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 4th August 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Free-thinking woman artist in defiant gestureFEMINISTAAcross 9: Outrageous prices for abstractsPRECISAAcross 10: Painter, perhaps, leaves ship unfinishedLINEAAcross 11: PR guru, source of ideas, high priest and god?IMAGEMAKERAAcross 12: Literary portrait by Mondrian, roughly trimmedDORIANAAcross 14: Catering for travellers to Burundi, going back: a poor place to liveTOURISTYAAcross 15: Allusion in Monet compositionMENTIONAAcross 17: Belong to painter's movement?PERTAINAAcross 20: A little love, eternally a soothing thingALOE VERAAAcross 22: Artist rejecting "name of the game"HOCKEYAAcross 23: Shaky contrivance of abstract art: model allowed to speak freely?RATTLETRAPAAcross 24: See 7FILMAAcross 25: One who would use art innovativelySEURATAAcross 26: Church painter, one who follows trendsCHARTISTDDown 1: Tiny interval in opera: company gets schedules back to frontSEMITONEDDown 2: Clue to artists' financial troublesDIREDDown 3: Boatman's enthralled by giant of an artistTITIANDDown 4: See 2STRAITSDDown 5: It's small round small Latin country with secret hot Latin QuarterSPHERULEDDown 6: Slavishly rule-following, like at first, say, a novice, is a nervous thingLEGALISTICDDown 7: Perhaps the artist is an avant-garde 8, taking in two studentsSILENTDDown 13: Boatman in old ship going below? Then I disguised where my destiny liesINTHESTARSDDown 16: A dish? Who, me? Let Telemachus be revealed!OMELETTEDDown 18: A drug-taking artist: one revered as a visionaryIDEALISTDDown 19: Pressure to compete causes artist to copyRAT RACEDDown 21: Not even Leonardo ends well offLOADEDDDown 22: Get hot about Constable — he's coolHEPCATDDown 24: Initiator of Fauvism? Munch historically was, a lotFATE