The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 17th January 2012 There are 15 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 17th January 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: With one drink entering exams in wickedness that's passed onORIGINAL SINAAcross 9: Top familiar arrangement of surface letters? No!AIR MAILAAcross 9: Top familiar arrangement of surface letters? No!AIRMAILAAcross 10: Bridgetown has crazy paving stones with steps somehow missingAVIGNONAAcross 11: Saint ousts leader for greed and lack of intelligenceSTUPIDITYAAcross 12: Disdain for 20 at last changing directionSCORNAAcross 13: Australians implicated in the return of consumerismEMUSAAcross 14: He is to begin proceedings, say, after idiot found on lineCLOTHES PEGAAcross 16: The other place might be coolPHLEGMATICAAcross 19: I forgot to mention at the start, so try and pay attention!PSSTAAcross 20: Heartless Harry's knocked back wineSYRAHAAcross 21: Heard F here in 10, half decent and streamlinedEFFICIENTAAcross 23: Dodgy dealer accepts milestoneEMERALDAAcross 24: To add insult to injury, take part in destructionRUBITINAAcross 25: Sides with Marxist leader below ground — shows gutsDISEMBOWELSDDown 1: Guardian's letter from Europe outwardly left Freudian slip — that's novelOURMUTUALFRIENDDDown 2: Arab republicans have quite intelligent leadersIRAQIDDown 3: Compiler shall bequeath malevolenceILL WILLDDown 4: Rain falls? Yes, it regularly makes us shrinkANALYSTDDown 5: Unorthodox priest admits two partners and one who hasn't a partnerSPINSTERDDown 6: Perhaps major politician with large troops — it's bad and madNON COMPOS MENTISDDown 7: Travel document for Paris? Assez, les bêtises!LAISSEZ PASSERDDown 8: Snog (with intent) had perhaps led to this?ONE-NIGHT STANDDDown 15: Clever ones get E'sEGGHEADSDDown 17: What's to be done with another order of magnitude, when it's goneAGENDUMDDown 18: Conclude with rejection of the afterlife, perhapsINFERNODDown 22: Message for the business secretary?CABLE