The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 5th November 2001 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 5th November 2001. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Drunk, tart nag? Me, a virago?TERMAGANTAAcross 6: Clever sailor with a little learningABLEAAcross 10: Chemical company gets new Greek covering for cakesICINGAAcross 11: A word of warning upset Di, as previously statedAFORESAIDAAcross 12: Conservative, I'd heard, is queerDIE-HARDAAcross 12: Conservative, I'd heard, is queerDIEHARDAAcross 13: Holidaymaker very quietly entering German cityTRIPPERAAcross 14: Unfortunate casualty, lying face downACCIDENT-PRONEAAcross 17: Pervert let Ben dress up in an article of ladies' underwearSUSPENDER BELTAAcross 21: Ultimately troubled spirit, in contact with medium partly, tapped rhythmicallyDRUMMEDAAcross 22: Brief revolt after some appeasementAPPRISEAAcross 24: At first, style kings in New York make fun of jumperSKINNYRIBAAcross 25: People in A&E returned for injectionENEMAAAcross 26: Median or mean, the average is somewhere in the middleNORMAAcross 27: Sorry hike around northern countyYORKSHIREDDown 1: After an interval, we first get a yen for Blairite philosophyTHIRDWAYDDown 2: Throw her in the riverRHINEDDown 3: Agent, pocketing 1,000 pounds, starts to imagine such emoluments mark increase in statusAGGRANDISEMENTDDown 4: Discontinue first attempts to outlaw mafiosoABANDONDDown 5: Pair with degree in DanceTWO-STEPDDown 7: Outrageously, a bishop helps me to speak profanelyBLASPHEMEDDown 8: Bear is close to riverENDUREDDown 9: Cook, Cox, Giles, Harper, Johnson and Webster?LEXICOGRAPHERSDDown 15: He dresses Tom Cruise, perhapsCOSTUMIERDDown 16: Are Geest bananas in inferior section of ship?STEERAGEDDown 18: Rather old tree, lately hollowed outELDERLYDDown 19: About British poet returned and looking more gloomyDRABBERDDown 20: Boy is close to inventorEDISONDDown 23: Ancient British tribe shrouded in Druidic enigmaICENI