The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 27th March 2014 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 27th March 2014. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Like, essentially, to spread malicious rumoursASPERSEAAcross 5: Vie for domestic income?COMPETEAAcross 10: Member taking nothing from nowhereLIMBAAcross 11: Something dentist may have to do with lineageEXTRACTIONAAcross 12: Repeat usual rubbishPARROTAAcross 13: A friend in America with endless addiction to emirateABU DHABIAAcross 14: Member of clergy apprehending fairy inverted in mirrorREFLECTORAAcross 16: Stick to gamePOKERAAcross 17: Introduction to Strange Fruitcake?SCONEAAcross 19: Sellers, turning round recreational area, left fire extinguisherSPRINKLERAAcross 23: French paper absorbing a drinkLEMONADEAAcross 24: Left to replace inner parts of Tchaikovsky scoreTWENTYAAcross 26: Piano music Nero performed in front of stagePROSCENIUMAAcross 27: Debate quelling monarch's feverAGUEAAcross 28: Food and drink obtained from catering establishmentINGESTAAAcross 29: Compound of steel, sulphur and oxygen creating problem for horseOSSELETDDown 2: Edible fungus — upset after eating it?SHITAKEDDown 3: Last vestige of topped limbEMBERDDown 4: Thomas the Tank, perhaps, cradling Controller's headSCEPTICDDown 6: Pop a question that's not entirely obscureOPAQUEDDown 7: Collage of meat-eating vigilantes, top to toePATCHWORKDDown 8: Blue or turquoise top causing ructionTROUBLEDDown 9: Port drunk with chasers -— it gets you very highSTRATOSPHERICDDown 15: Crustacean to depose government before entering thoroughfareLANGOUSTEDDown 18: V-sign scrawled on her CVCHEVRONDDown 20: Wrung this headless bird's neckISTHMUSDDown 21: Put out electronic message, not initially vulgarEXTRUDEDDown 22: Progenitor's yearly chargePARENTDDown 25: Wipe out head of regiment in comfortERASE