The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Country soldiers in head-to-foot attireCHADORAAcross 4: Conservative members not seeking re-election? Divisive typesCLEAVERSAAcross 9: The source of news coming previously?PATHEAAcross 10: Fellow joining farm workers – colourful?PIGMENTEDAAcross 11: Drunk scowled at – sign of panic maybeCOLD SWEATAAcross 12: Hospital cut back? It makes you laugh!MIRTHAAcross 13: Troublemaker Tom, sinner extraordinaire in detentionIMPRISONMENTAAcross 17: New attestors, one providing key to understanding symbolic languageROSETTA STONEAAcross 20: Medication is the last word with energy minimal? The reverseENEMAAAcross 21: Attack some person’s laughterONSLAUGHTAAcross 23: Left one school with classical architectural featurePORTICOEDAAcross 24: Illness with nothing right? Get a mineralFLUORAAcross 25: Understand look said to be needed for floral decorationsNOSEGAYSAAcross 26: Amphibian getting on with bit of forceNEWTONDDown 1: Monk offers top university featureCAPUCHINDDown 2: Worker to abscond, the beastANTELOPEDDown 3: Archdeacon invested in huge kitchen appliancesOVENSDDown 5: I’m idealist and get changes brought within the lawLEGITIMATISEDDDown 6: See me in taverns getting drunk, making firm assertionsAVERMENTSDDown 7: No longer wrong to provide forceEXTORTDDown 8: Holy man, unhappy, starts to discard his uniformSADDHUDDown 10: Splashing money, go on and help to create a school of philosophyPHENOMENOLOGYDDown 14: Setting apart one so good, holding tongue no longer?ISOLATINGDDown 15: What tall man wears for clubs, say?LONG SUITDDown 16: Fifth old book order library finally overlooked? Something small being chargedDEUTERONDDown 18: Tough female interrupted by English politicianHEMPENDDown 19: Old socialite has upset gentleman? Rubbish!DEBRISDDown 22: A story about female and male in filmALFIE