The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 17th September 2012 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 17th September 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Change in nude composition is no differentUNALTEREDAAcross 6: Elegant son’s cravingSWISHAAcross 9: Congo naturalist’s broadcast: well done!CONGRATULATIONSAAcross 10: In space asteroid’s veering towards orientEASTAAcross 11: Sailor's wayward, markedly different from the normABERRANTAAcross 14: Show fur, reportedly, to driverCHAUFFEURAAcross 15: Expert in part of the storeADEPTAAcross 16: Intended as average timeMEANTAAcross 18: Scared when favourite one’s fired, perhapsPETRIFIEDAAcross 20: Insect animals find to be fearful pestsBUGBEARSAAcross 21: Great drama when recipe’s returned without touchingEPICAAcross 25: Went around with iced rum, vacating groundCIRCUMNAVIGATEDAAcross 26: Employees' greasy food sent back to FranceSTAFFAAcross 27: Latter day, sassiest assembly of writersESSAYISTSDDown 1: Relative part of overrun clearedUNCLEDDown 2: Forgetting disease, Continent accepts lost menAMNESIADDown 3: Forty heading off mutinous noviceTYRODDown 4: She is badly hurtRUTHDDown 5: Intended to ponderDELIBERATEDDown 6: Party World: a lighthouse in Aberdeen originallySATURNALIADDown 7: Separate unit's very unpunctualISOLATEDDown 8: Hated holding knotted ties, so hung backHESITATEDDDown 12: Impromptu action with the wrist?OFF-THE-CUFFDDown 13: Water-based paint, no coloured emulsion initially, in moderationTEMPERANCEDDown 14: Arrives carrying support and repliesCOMEBACKSDDown 17: Country's changed regaliaALGERIADDown 19: Motivation shown as time’s up, anywayIMPETUSDDown 22: About poem’s rulesCODESDDown 23: First lady’s kind of puddingEVESDDown 24: Plain fruit, reportedlyUGLY