The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 20th December 1999 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 20th December 1999. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Mostly you infanticides are involved in production of cartoon-style takeover of the worldDISNEYFICATIONAAcross 9: Sleuths are men of insight, playful at heartSEARCHERSAAcross 10: Run into East European workerPROLEAAcross 11: First of all, I do love endless relaxation!IDLERAAcross 12: Fellow expresses hesitation before an escortCHAPERONEAAcross 13: Entrails upset? Find the toilets!LATRINESAAcross 14: New leader leaving Lancashire town very quicklyPRESTOAAcross 17: Baby crabNIPPERAAcross 19: Start the game without bruiser on the fieldBULLY OFFAAcross 22: Lyrical disco harp arrangementRHAPSODICAAcross 24: Diminutive Egyptian king or teacherTUTORAAcross 25: Annual percentage rate? 49? But that's a month!APRILAAcross 26: Popeye is a normal sortSAILORMANAAcross 27: Information-gathering is criminal in late medieval eraRECONNAISSANCEDDown 1: Lad in panic: sir is half-crazy floggerDISCIPLINARIANDDown 2: Mix-up rattles minor celebritySTARLETDDown 3: After topless sex, writing style become digressiveEXCURSIVEDDown 4: Normal Stanley makes arrowsFLETCHERDDown 5: Offhand about sexual irregularity without former partnerCASUALDDown 6: Tent's top has pointTEPEEDDown 7: Headless dead bird - decomposed, sour-smellingODOROUSDDown 8: Cyberspace meeting setting up European net to catch the French confrere right outTELECONFERENCEDDown 15: Family is not real, unfortunatelyRELATIONSDDown 16: Vegetable contains a mixture of zinc, copper, hydrogen and iodineZUCCHINIDDown 18: Blair ditching British left in favour of PR, that is plainPRAIRIEDDown 20: Park most of backside on an upholstered seatOTTOMANDDown 21: Unusual boy rated likely to succeedODDS-ONDDown 23: In reprisal, volley fired in sea-fightSALVO