The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd December 2010 There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd December 2010. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Man of words caught in entrance wearing long pants?DOCTORAAcross 4: See 1JOHNSONAAcross 9: Cardinal supplied a lot of light gas in cereal for everyoneRICHELIEUAAcross 10: Harpist and painter as parent keeping 6DAVIDAAcross 11: Shakespearean in the orchestraVIOLAAAcross 12: Write study of Ulster in Thackeray's historyPENDENNISAAcross 13: Embittered note about Scots sweetheart to staySOJOURNAAcross 15: Derisive comment on brute eating his headYAHBOOAAcross 17: Look at fellow during shuteye, say?SHUFTIAAcross 19: Polish part of Hungarian city backed with sound of drumRUB-A-DUBAAcross 22: Old musical student at start of play in Liverpool streetLILACTIMEAAcross 24: No way in which Jeremy has chainsIRONSAAcross 26: The best thing is to get religious fellow elevatedJEWELAAcross 27: King of Wales, abandoning rugby, on direct path that's pointlessCYMBELINEAAcross 28: Prize for sexagenarian finding spring in a kissBUSPASSAAcross 29: Brute when the sheet's turned back?ANIMALDDown 1: Comes from the German saintDERIVESDDown 2: Cocoa and chocolate are one originallyCACAODDown 3: Devotee of Verdi etc: if with article, of Pergolesi?OPERABUFFDDown 4: Container of tea drunk by kangaroo on its way?JOURNEYDDown 5: 1 4's pet pig swallowing first of drugs, ecstasyHODGEDDown 6: Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffsSEVEN-FOLDDDown 6: Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffsSEVENFOLDDDown 7: Devotee of nature creating hell among teachersNUDISTDDown 8: Dickensian number from Orange?PIPPINDDown 14: Use Jewish number 50 as coalition's new model?JOHNLEWISDDown 16: 1 4's 4 down, Jewish majority with one churchmanHEBRIDEANDDown 18: Old copper leaves epic: coppers need muscleILIACUSDDown 19: Borders capturing man in place of jackdawRHEIMSDDown 20: 1 4's presenter to cry up sourceBOSWELLDDown 21: Month's shortly up: cover with extraordinary protectionFLUJABDDown 23: 4 across playing Alice?CELIADDown 25: Narcotic work I take with hesitationOPIUM