The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 7th March 2012 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 7th March 2012. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Various emails, no cluesMISCELLANEOUSAAcross 10: Performer surviving without French money in the old daysEXECUTANTAAcross 11: "Mordancy" nicely defining one of her characteristics?CYNICAAcross 12: Violet Elizabeth's lied, getting lashTHONGAAcross 13: Popular books about what you do, unable to pay debtsINSOLVENTAAcross 14: It contains fodder and is thus about to be welcomed by horseNOSEBAGAAcross 16: Not many from Edinburgh, say, get drunk habituallySOTTISHAAcross 18: Turning out to be old, posh former policeman?OUSTINGAAcross 20: Steal pub's profitBARGAINAAcross 21: Black cuckoo in book about large and small American birdsBOBOLINKSAAcross 23: Carries on, keeping wits about one at lastWAGESAAcross 24: And is man ultimately lacking soul?ANIMAAAcross 25: Clipped — and rude?MANICUREDAAcross 26: Leading experts try crossing two types of monkey, vainlyEGOTISTICALLYDDown 2: Kitchen oddly disposed of stores and old refrigeratorsICEHOUSESDDown 3: Stuck around, taking a breatherCLUNGDDown 4: Performing, bound one limb around anotherLEAPINGDDown 5: Wearing Long Johns?ARTISTSDDown 6: Steps you can take to avoid exercise?ESCALATORDDown 7: Bones regularly revealed in our lineageULNAEDDown 8: Town memorably producing pieMELTONMOWBRAYDDown 9: Perhaps Glaswegian workers, in conclusion, have a drinkSCOTCH AND SODADDown 15: Great boxer's disheartened by rough bloke's tactics at firstBRILLIANTDDown 17: Maiden's month trapped in dilapidated urinalINAUGURALDDown 19: Little people contain essence of parents, ie sets of chromosomesGENOMESDDown 20: Dog's state is primarily to be a dogBASENJIDDown 22: Pregnant warbler? It's the sound of spring!BOINGDDown 23: Women's group starts to criticise celebrity as a modern-day cultWICCA