The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 13th March 2008 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 13th March 2008. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Drug, say, abused by weird sectECSTASYAAcross 5: Comply about order to boxer showing weight problemOBESITYAAcross 10: Applauds at regular intervals? That's a positive signPLUSAAcross 11: Centre of common extended a short distanceMILLIMETREAAcross 12: Attend at university, initially optimisticUPBEATAAcross 13: Intense happiness rising in English house, with strain recedingEUPHORIAAAcross 14: Puts up at home, having no friends aroundNOMINATESAAcross 16: A certain thing Tory leader cutsTAXESAAcross 17: A source of mineral or organic compoundAMINEAAcross 19: A secret I wrongly revealed about old arcane stuffESOTERICAAAcross 23: Conservative ceremony to publicise backing for standardsCRITERIAAAcross 24: Type in scientific journalNATUREAAcross 26: Indications of a lot of hard drinkers going on spreeHARBINGERSAAcross 27: Pack to put between opposing card playersSTOWAAcross 28: Put together around this spot, firmly fixedADHEREDAAcross 29: A vehicle endlessly hemmed in by others in capitalCARACASDDown 2: A number of West Indians in clubs play so badlyCALYPSODDown 3: Experience discrimination, in a senseTASTEDDown 4: Scholar dipped into Sanskrit works in Asian islandSUMATRADDown 6: Air transport for pompous officersBLIMPSDDown 7: Reconstructed in stages our prehistoric specimenSTEGOSAURDDown 8: Spy it in damaged tree?TERMITEDDown 9: 14, 16 and 17; or 3 and 25; or 1, 13 and 22ALTEREDSTATESDDown 15: Part of design I tabled that's not fireproofIGNITABLEDDown 18: Fabulous creature many admire at seaMERMAIDDDown 20: Place in Africa is one surrounded by fishTUNISIADDown 21: Company's board relocated in European cityCORDOBADDown 22: In which one's not aware there's new suspicion going roundTRANCEDDown 25: It's hard for a seed to finish important match with aceTESTA