The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 1st November 2024 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st November 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Love games helping with theatre workOPERATIONAAcross 10: Poet’s successful hit in America, not #1 in FranceHOMERAAcross 11: Suggestion: return online shopping basket?TRACEAAcross 12: Foolishness as Archer caught out blocking – it’s spinning today at both endsSTUPIDITYAAcross 13: Goon loses face dumping 4951 grand fighterPIKEMANAAcross 14: Game over getting wife to wear jewelleryBOWLINGAAcross 17: Space explorers beginning to launch in a manner of deliveryNASALAAcross 19: Don Corleone finally quitting struggleWARAAcross 20: Fire maintained by King LearINGLEAAcross 21: Rank 1000, 500, 9/2 and 50?COLONELAAcross 22: Extremely emotional blackbird flying west a tiny amount?DRIBBLEAAcross 24: Pot only two snooker balls in short holidayMINIBREAKAAcross 26: Pull back to tackle United defenderGUARDAAcross 28: Country’s first chess champion, unknownITALYAAcross 29: Was superior to old tea, drunk stewedOUTRANKEDDDown 1: Negative instruction suggesting you must leave US pastryDONTDDown 2: Comment on bookREMARKDDown 3: Woman’s exciting role meant getting fruitWATERMELONDDown 4: Prime Minister once in slow danceWILSONDDown 5: Load of fruit 25% off following some brown endsENCUMBERDDown 6: Switzerland attached to excellent drinkCHAIDDown 7: Messaging me back, forgetting header’s deletedEMAILINGDDown 8: Girl hugging Romeo with forceARMYDDown 13: Copper outside in a dreadful state of terrorPANICDDown 15: ‘Rubbish Tip’ drawing, perhaps owned by studentWRITING PADDDown 16: Birds moving skywards, for example, taking in viewGEESEDDown 18: Tablet penned by strange alien found between poles of the moonSELENIANDDown 19: Individual with a small part, Starmer’s not one to break law (no shock)WALKERONDDown 22: Old transport aircraft’s information about fine lift-offDAKOTADDown 23: Ignores financial institutions stealing pound sterlingBLANKSDDown 24: Sea island housing 28MAINDDown 25: Elitist changing negative answer to positive after raising childrenBOYSDDown 27: Fathers and theologians describe introduction to ApocryphaDADS