The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st March 2012 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st March 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Gas, then talk back, as one full of hot airWINDBAGAAcross 5: Great success? No sirGOODWINAAcross 9: Figure Spanish chap cut by a third after ending in gutterRHOMBAAcross 10: Wood, say, behind runway, where everything will be revealedSTRIPCLUBAAcross 11: Source of misery more in order, like modern music?OPIUM POPPYAAcross 12: Right to be extracted from meat extract about a couple of litres with little insectBOLLAAcross 14: Criminal went with ID, return guaranteedUNDERWRITTENAAcross 18: Gripping thing gathering in money, promotion for old actorVINCENTPRICEAAcross 21: One unable to take off some banner headlineRHEAAAcross 22: Dry, like an imploded eyeball?HUMOURLESSAAcross 25: With cheer ringing around, I'm inside for murderELIMINATEAAcross 26: Nabokov's conclusion inscribed in a blank blockANVILAAcross 27: Slip back, last to slumber, not sound asleepRELAPSEAAcross 28: Torturing leader, ritual appalling in name onlyTITULARDDown 1: Artist's break from action?WARHOLDDown 2: Recess that is a lot of funNOOKIEDDown 3: As Spooner might say, perhaps folder required for parents' assistantBABY MINDERDDown 3: As Spooner might say, perhaps folder required for parents' assistantBABYMINDERDDown 4: Device requiring doctrine to cut energyGISMODDown 5: Fix up starter of pilau with reduced packaging. Spices strong with it?GIRLPOWERDDown 6: Ring, ring … there's more to say: I've been careless!OOPSDDown 7: Seed sown, I was told, liberally?WILD OATSDDown 8: Turn in live organ for Wagnerian dwarfNIBELUNGDDown 13: Grating cheese at first, add tins or nutsDISCORDANTDDown 15: Following ten foolishly, we act thus with maturity?ENTOURAGEDDown 16: Catch where GIs were once on the radio?OVERHEARDDown 17: Crocodile's location, loosely speaking? Not accepting that!INDENIALDDown 19: See 12WEEVILDDown 20: Stable chap stole pickled cucumber in the endOSTLERDDown 23: Open golf's second greenOVERTDDown 24: Wuss, political singer of JerusalemWIMP