The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 22nd January 2003 There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 22nd January 2003. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Camp with old shopping centre fitted into angleFOPPISHAAcross 5: Worry about horse slaughterCARNAGEAAcross 9: Ornament to lug roundEARRINGAAcross 10: "O!", I cried, entangled with heatherlike leavesERICOIDAAcross 11: Refreshment for theologian in sports arenaICEDDRINKAAcross 12: Sugar the supplier initially omitted to provideCATERAAcross 13: Habitual resort to elite name when sending round something appealing for donationsHAUNTAAcross 15: Girl's fellow making tracks? So what's new?DISCOVERYAAcross 17: Deduction in barrier protection for the QueenINFERENCEAAcross 19: Dumbhead! What? Covering point with profundity?DEPTHAAcross 22: Stubble that brings back blemishesSTRAWAAcross 23: Old film buff is heard wanting time to creepSYCOPHANTAAcross 25: Return perished, clutching a fag, having lost gravity and needing help to hearDEAF-AIDAAcross 26: Genuine performance by young playerINGENUEAAcross 27: Beast! Goddess returns the baking dish!RAMEKINAAcross 28: No tears when gypsy gentleman appears in a new colourDRY-EYEDDDown 1: Sounding catarrhal, perhaps, like Rubens?FLEMISHDDown 2: Upstart detailed usual meeting placePARVENUDDown 3: Painter turned up, engrossing one in a long storyILIADDDown 4: Strangely daring, he'd been beset by womenHAG-RIDDENDDown 4: Strangely daring, he'd been beset by womenHAGRIDDENDDown 5: Caught smell of riverCREEKDDown 6: Sun-god incorporated garish weather indicatorRAIN CLOUDDDown 7: A job for the French preacherAPOSTLEDDown 8: Old king, being in the wrong, yelledELDERLYDDown 14: Having to return the toss may lead to atavismTHROW BACKDDown 14: Having to return the toss may lead to atavismTHROWBACKDDown 16: Not one's own favourites picked up by companion I loved extremelySTEPCHILDDDown 17: Has be been charged with knowing too much?INSIDERDDown 18: Winchester strict about organFIREARMDDown 20: Patently, it could be any pillPLAINLYDDown 21: Two articles in a carrier? What an impetuous person!HOTHEADDDown 23: Chair removed from a Chinese dance-hallSEDANDDown 24: The pain's about over, my little man!PYGMY