The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 5th October 2009 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 5th October 2009. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: A rude Wren dancing in bloomers?UNDERWEARAAcross 10: Vanquished, beheaded and devouredEATENAAcross 11: Harshly criticise Long for sense of stylePANACHEAAcross 12: Imagine old Briton by riverPICTUREAAcross 13: Put down backward, abbreviated, variety of languageLAIDAAcross 14: Double for inactive campanologistDEAD RINGERAAcross 16: Madame who modelled us a stud?TUSSAUDAAcross 17: Scruffy creature from meadow born into drudgeryFLEABAGAAcross 19: Musician fingers this and, troubled, turns legitLUTESTRINGAAcross 22: Large soprano in large tank?VASTAAcross 24: Frightened to admit king is disfiguredSCARREDAAcross 25: Author with a book out in NevadaNABOKOVAAcross 26: Urge student to follow setter's fitness programmeIMPELAAcross 27: Mutant weed, in time, produces flowerSPEEDWELLDDown 1: Spirit with peculiar pill tests family in fairytaleRUMPELSTILTSKINDDown 2: Little lad with nothing claimed by disease of glandsADENOIDSDDown 3: Cost of puppy's first foodPRICEDDown 4: Clergyman always turns up right before death!REVERENDDDown 5: Stand after drug-fuelled experience leads to overdose?TRIPODDDown 6: Recounted heroic exploit about special keyDESCRIBEDDDown 7: Threaded saint on crossbarSTRUNGDDown 8: Veil irony and target's confused by how question is askedINTERROGATIVELYDDown 15: Animal queen put into cabbage dishCASSEROLEDDown 17: Pays for those engaged to receive knightFINANCESDDown 18: Want liberal to enter appeal for strike-breakerBLACKLEGDDown 20: Copper trailing vehicle uncovers immoral womenTRAMPSDDown 21: Vegetable artist's good-lookerRADISHDDown 23: Wait for a proposal by partnerABIDE