The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 19th August 2013 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 19th August 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Quick, speak!EXPRESSAAcross 5: Changed the broken treadleALTEREDAAcross 9: Drank a great deal back at baseDEPOTAAcross 10: Between you and me and one of these — it's confidential!GATEPOSTSAAcross 11: Ask for an obvious answer?BEGTHEQUESTIONAAcross 13: See article resulting in grantLOANAAcross 14: Italy's own nightingale?FLORENCEAAcross 17: Company’s new target, who lives in a small houseCOTTAGERAAcross 18: Mystic bear of DisneylandYOGIAAcross 21: Sedate shop-girl ill-disposed to see competitions for dogsSHEEPDOGTRIALSAAcross 23: Feeling one student’s in an unstable conditionEMOTIONALAAcross 24: She split her shoes a bit, being suppleLITHEAAcross 25: Stone skull in part of minePITHEADAAcross 26: To use up peeled tomatoes, first cookDEPLETEDDown 1: Dyed, bizarrely, in a whirlpoolEDDYDDown 2: Reformed Top Hat set: seeded first but lost in the endPIPPEDATTHEPOSTDDown 3: Presence of bird discovered in Spain and New YorkENTITYDDown 4: Holding good, French artist runs up but then slumpedSAGGEDDDown 5: Craft, the whole of it, shown in a way that’s disingenuousARTFULLYDDown 6: Perhaps pretty as a picture?TAPESTRYDDown 7: Foreign language game is dangerous!RUSSIAN ROULETTEDDown 8: Disown their movement, following policeman’s lapseDISINHERITDDown 12: Reprobate's back adopting Liberal member of the congregationBLACK SHEEPDDown 15: American uncle’s parking charter for coastal plantSAMPHIREDDown 16: Famous again: name admittedRENOWNEDDDown 19: Solid without model that's dullSTOLIDDDown 20: It's a good feeling to top up a Porsche, at firstFILLIPDDown 22: Destiny, they say, is fairFETE