The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th January 2013 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th January 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: One comes from among relatively unrefined typesMONGRELAAcross 5: Ford is hesitating to become emperorKAISERAAcross 9: Virtue of endless hurry in financial centreCHASTITYAAcross 10: High Church service provided it's in central FranceMASSIFAAcross 12: Commission for distribution of dog foodPERPETRATIONAAcross 15: A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queenCHURCHGOERAAcross 17: In name it may be called the King's ArmsINNAAcross 19: Liquid, one not known to be undrinkableINKAAcross 20: The way stuff comes and goesTRADE ROUTEAAcross 22: With vehicle, possibly, get in a top positionVANTAGE POINTAAcross 26: Backstage chatter, or how Miller unmasked McCarthy?BYPLAYAAcross 27: Increasingly out and about, as are the rich when partyingHOMELESSAAcross 28: Bird could be elegant, apart from nameEAGLETAAcross 29: Drink needs part of the eye keeping directionRETSINADDown 1: 1,001 brushed aside by CromwellMACEDDown 2: Organised stockNEATDDown 3: Troop cover after engineers cut expensesRETRENCHDDown 4: Playing lute softly to relieve tensionLET UPDDown 4: Playing lute softly to relieve tensionLETUPDDown 6: Fruit, not originally but still …ANANASDDown 7: Dubious, like the filth?SUSPICIOUSDDown 8: Arbitrator in mad dance borrowed from Peter to pay PaulREFINANCEDDDown 11: Listen to variation of New Testament dateATTENDDDown 13: "It can be done — somehow I have" (Cable)ACHIEVABLEDDown 14: Bacon's original sourceSUCKING PIGDDown 16: Attic half overturned, brought to orderGARTERDDown 18: Stern — apt perhaps to take one side or the otherTRANSEPTDDown 21: Cope with a boy when grown up?MANAGEDDown 23: It may be high, but it's nothing grimODOURDDown 24: Smith, a bit short of specialist food providerDELIDDown 25: A good deal of land seen as one articleASIA