The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 30th October 2013 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 30th October 2013. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: What tennis players may be doing in the forcesSERVINGAAcross 5: Whacking hostile delivery at the Oval?BUMPERAAcross 9: Swaggering, make better boxing punch first to lastCOCKSUREAAcross 10: In old Rome I love retiring president, a low form of lifeAMOEBAAAcross 12: Pat kindly covers up the foreign head's negligenceCARELESSNESSAAcross 15: Remaining board members (one third gone) promise too muchOVERCOMMITAAcross 17: Malicious utterance damaging leaders, perhapsMUDAAcross 19: Endless row over nothingNILAAcross 20: All gibbons gathered in distant watering holesBILLABONGSAAcross 22: Band of players celebrate after work for soloists curtailedCONCERTPARTYAAcross 26: Unorthodox bishop with answer for society's hatredPHOBIAAAcross 27: Suggestive payment made to landlord in receipt of benefitREDOLENTAAcross 28: Vinegary old hermit's no saintACETICAAcross 29: Rubbish written about church — editor firedTORCHEDDDown 1: Demand for the whole nation to go in fun sports event!SACKDDown 2: See 1RACEDDown 3: Fashionable carriage, for exampleINSTANCEDDown 4: Dynamic chaps with energy moving bushGORSEDDown 6: Bare man swimming in riverUNMASKDDown 7: Promotion before commotionPREFERMENTDDown 8: Reformed characters in parishes do wax lyricalRHAPSODISEDDown 11: Cheerful servant good for morose leaderGENIALDDown 13: Trouble afoot — temperature's cold in the Land of More PlentyCORNUCOPIADDown 14: Purchasing power of earnings in Brazil?REALINCOMEDDown 16: Doctor's sobriety half-gone — either halfMOIETYDDown 18: Crowd trouble on the rise after a cricketer's shamblesABATTOIRDDown 21: Soldier guarding modern artist's house, one of 12GEMINIDDown 23: Watch chain not originally belonging on watch?ALERTDDown 24: Fringes of more stylish networkMESHDDown 25: Film company dismissing one old bossSTUD