The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 25th January 2013 There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 25th January 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Regime seeing annihilation of middle class as key againRETYPEAAcross 4: Prohibition of smacking's good and rightSLAP-BANGAAcross 9: Show electronic cable?EVINCEAAcross 10: Father Jack, perhaps, embraced by Anglicans, causing splitCREVASSEAAcross 11: Joe Bloggs entertains them in varietyMAN IN THE STREETAAcross 13: I'd a way to help poorer countriesFOREIGN AIDAAcross 14: List some prime numbersMENUAAcross 16: He helps virgin to shed clothesAIDEAAcross 18: It's very hard to bear Spooner's married lady friendDEAD WEIGHTAAcross 18: It's very hard to bear Spooner's married lady friendDEADWEIGHTAAcross 21: Waste ground next to railway? It's increasingly profitableGROWTH INDUSTRYAAcross 23: News broadcast shot at homeBULLETINAAcross 24: Mature bulb regularly coming into flowerNUBILEAAcross 25: Alienate Argentines, dropping in unexpectedlyESTRANGEAAcross 26: Heartlessly asking boy about potential source of misunderstandingAGEGAPDDown 1: Regretted vulgar soundsRUEDDDown 2: Might an East End trichologist treat this for nothing?THIN AIRDDown 3: Stop that manic panic about stuff!PACKITINDDown 5: Generous — and inclined to be magnanimousLARGE-MINDEDDDown 6: Turns from small to big noise during escalationPIVOTSDDown 7: Unemotional principals in Faust were sackedAUSTEREDDown 8: Garbo doesn't have time to tease relativeGREAT-AUNTDDown 12: Pounding ingredientsTENDERISINGDDown 13: French-Belgian compromise, easily brokenFRANGIBLEDDown 15: Engorged lower half of wildebeest upset another wildebeestBEESTUNGDDown 17: Tiny amount of petrol mistakenly offered at under a dollarDROPLETDDown 19: Getting dressed, kid goes over to CrosbyGARBINGDDown 20: Goddess later giving up booze?ATHENADDown 22: Ocean's water departed on a rising tide?DEEP