The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th January 2012 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th January 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: It's not cheap to build a monumentCENOTAPHAAcross 5: Sea off Tripoli with a leitmotif?THEMEDAAcross 9: Oddly puts on pretensions of being at a higher levelUPSTAIRSAAcross 10: Writer of letters to the Queen?MAILERAAcross 12: Dances with a shadow ministerBALLSAAcross 13: Each test one plays is artisticAESTHETICAAcross 14: Minister the senior service finds dotty, as is the coalitionGOVERNMENTALAAcross 18: Brief turn by Waller, loud with 12, needing extra handsSHORT-STAFFEDAAcross 21: Digital sketch?THUMBNAILAAcross 23: Sound of sound poetNOISEAAcross 24: Fruit may be elevating, though not entirelyRAISINAAcross 25: Red not English, but may be hidden in the closetSKELETONAAcross 26: Tropical ailment?CANCERAAcross 27: Old college learned about student with several languagesPOLYGLOTDDown 1: Caroline's first partner, a man of substanceCHUBBYDDown 2: Get cosy with a food provider?NESTLEDDown 3: Model raced to practise athletics, maybe train …TRANSPORTDDown 4: … track for each chap went variably with a variablePERMANENTWAYDDown 6: Former minister seen in the Carlton or the AthenaeumHEATHDDown 7: Contend with French actor turning up in the distanceMILITATEDDown 8: Order heartless lady requires at onceDIRECTLYDDown 11: Molesworth's version of "It is a truth universally acknowledged … ”ASANYFULEKNODDown 15: Enter scruffy friend without endETERNALLYDDown 16: Description of strange coteries?ESOTERICDDown 17: Answer for a punctured tyre?SOLUTIONDDown 19: Arm spoilt in more ways than one?PISTOLDDown 20: Note returned by a cheese-makerRENNETDDown 22: She's about to live free — or the converse?BRIDE