The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st January 2015 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st January 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Mate rounded Cape unnoticedHUBBYAAcross 10: They worship former Tory leader, full of lies or nonsenseIDOLISERSAAcross 11: Had better drug previously, it seemed to ArachneMETHOUGHTAAcross 12: Split from husband, heading off to give birth in cowshedHALVEAAcross 13: Grey matter with a laminated coverTHALAMIAAcross 15: Cold meal wrapped in foilSCUPPERAAcross 17: Date of road tax moving forwardTRYSTAAcross 18: Mo's audible nervous habitTICAAcross 20: Perfectly embodies the ultimate in courageous soldier materialTOASTAAcross 22: Do successors occupy country, having ousted last PM?PREMIERAAcross 25: Lure fish in a westerly direction and downwindLEEWARDAAcross 26: Show indifference and keep quiet, when confronted with wigSHRUGAAcross 27: People who undermine subordinates slyly, but noiselesslySABOTEURSAAcross 30: They went in search of sheepskin, as bottled gas ran outARGONAUTSAAcross 31: Chat show host walks on waterPIERSDDown 1: Buddy and Charlie don't know the words?CHUMDDown 2: Passing mention of sex in broken YorubaOBITUARYDDown 3: Rookie Conservative, upside down and back to frontTYRODDown 4: Six ducks living on Scottish islands, one with more than one tongueLINGUISTDDown 5: Chemist stocks drug for starsBOOTESDDown 6: Shadowy figure trashing hotel suiteSILHOUETTEDDown 7: Friend tied knot round wattleDEWLAPDDown 8: American female tennis legendASHEDDown 13: Ram's purpose, in sumTOT UPDDown 14: Styptic band inserted into a temporary splintASTRINGENTDDown 16: Esteemed journalist is buried under grassRATEDDDown 19: A centre for research into breadfruitCALABASHDDown 21: You can count on these four Swedes swearing out loudABACUSESDDown 23: Ends of Rice, Brown and Garner? Time for angerENRAGEDDown 24: Hit squire near the knuckleRISQUEDDown 26: Most of matchmaker's meeting with male went smoothlySWAMDDown 28: Booze off limits to birth control enthusiastTOPEDDown 29: Really big sizes are in the ascendant, OK?SO-SO