The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 24th January 2005 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 24th January 2005. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Wood, we hear, with sound colour and toneTIMBREAAcross 4: Not deviating when attracted to the opposite sexSTRAIGHTAAcross 9: Fools the girls when student drops outASSESAAcross 10: Feverishness led to it again having treatmentAGITATIONAAcross 11: It's not enough to have a brief tumble!SHORTFALLAAcross 12: Colouring chore, perhapsOCHREAAcross 13: Reasonably, only half finally consent to sit around insideCONSISTENTLYAAcross 17: Hire a home as monasteryCHARTERHOUSEAAcross 20: Opposite the middle, find sailor, first engineer, in the morningABEAMAAcross 21: Could be lighter, if seen in the glow from the hearthFIRELIGHTAAcross 23: He pays for fine French article on cooked riceFINANCIERAAcross 24: No time for metric conversion when there's foul playCRIMEAAcross 25: Somehow lean, say, slightly at first, towards detailed testsANALYSESAAcross 26: Curse second-class illumination!BLIGHTDDown 1: Trains one to go out and do a dealTRANSACTDDown 2: Custom in rent calculation that's wrongMISCOUNTDDown 3: Go back to square one when New Street's not finishedRESETDDown 5: Way to solve a problem of hearing with inaccuracyTRIAL-AND-ERRORDDown 6: Say topless bikini, for example, gets pained expression from clericAYATOLLAHDDown 7: Professional entertainer of his age? Ridiculous!GEISHADDown 8: Rent rise includes an old coinTANNERDDown 10: Awful rift with team-mate getting duck - it had to happen eventuallyAMATTEROFTIMEDDown 14: Cruelly revealed: fashionable person's ugly halfINHUMANLYDDown 15: Extrovert going out to change placesOUTGOINGDDown 16: Aware of having dispatched one to hospital departmentSENTIENTDDown 18: Discover if a far-off tree produces fibreRAFFIADDown 19: Her new Indian assistant originally diagnosing ruptureHERNIADDown 22: Hostelry serving light food, it's saidLOCAL