The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd January 2014 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd January 2014. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Boob reportedly making a lot of noiseCLANGOURAAcross 9: Compiler turned round compiler's former rapperEMINEMAAcross 10: Stereotypically privileged insect?WASPAAcross 11: Female getting going with concrete structureFLAUNCHINGAAcross 12: Party girl keeping one large chest measurement under wrapsHIDDENAAcross 14: Find out about unusual end of spectrumINFRAREDAAcross 15: Various mediocre, tailless rodentsDORMICEAAcross 17: Affected style of ornamental entranceARCHWAYAAcross 20: Liver not wholly absorbing origins of alcoholic binge — result is almost obsceneSCABROUSAAcross 22: Type of express, perhaps, chasing its tailSTRAINAAcross 23: Graffiti fade off building materialDEFACEMENTAAcross 24: Plant that's loud and looseFLAXAAcross 25: Oracle's source, or prophet's, in cityDELPHIAAcross 26: 22 across-er's article not so hot outsideCOLANDERDDown 1: Camel's relation almost in love with actorALPACINODDown 2: Bargain to get legs overSNIPDDown 3: Head of college leaving home for final destinationCOFFINDDown 4: Bad actor going to Italy (a country)CROATIADDown 5: Express disapproval about return of Scandinavian girlJENNIFERDDown 6: Beauty and Woman were synonymous with "domestic appliance"DISH WASHERDDown 6: Beauty and Woman were synonymous with "domestic appliance"DISHWASHERDDown 7: Where to communicate with some of those ancestors?SEANCEDDown 13: Anticipating release, had poem by Portishead translatedDEMOBHAPPYDDown 16: Inclined to be cross about un-American show containing gapCHOLERICDDown 18: Mounting vigour, imbued with energy, proves enliveningANIMATESDDown 19: What's distilled in German city's churchESSENCEDDown 21: Smart chopper guttedCLEVERDDown 22: Colonise piece of furnitureSETTLEDDown 24: Clement's penaltyFINE