The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd January 2015 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd January 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Deals on wheels?TRAFFICAAcross 5: Son of Agamemnon taking ecstasy into the woods, heading offORESTESAAcross 9: Mark alongside notes showing instability of centre leftTENORAAcross 10: Freedom on piano that's banalPLATITUDEAAcross 11: Idealistic not right — but leaning that way?ITALICISEDAAcross 12: Read in this how I'm pusillanimous!WIMPAAcross 14: Gather together 50p, then start to launch an economic recovery programmeMARSHALL PLANAAcross 18: In conclusion to meeting, clientele appearing stupid — this lacking?INTELLIGENCEAAcross 21: See 9CLEFAAcross 22: Lords push Europe outUPPERHOUSEAAcross 25: Start losing it, having consumed eight beers rapidly for starters, as drunkINEBRIATEAAcross 26: Warning light that's black in a German car, not entirely visibleAMBERAAcross 27: 3/4 engrossed, then a little grossFULSOMEAAcross 28: Infidel on the scene of the crime?ATHEISTDDown 1: Morsel bird has chewedTITBITDDown 2: Void binding for a bookANNUALDDown 3: Dreadful story about gold, stupid when written upFORMIDABLEDDown 4: Island cold, this between Marc and Ma?CAPRIDDown 5: Number usually fighting among the congregation? Love will overcome!ON AVERAGEDDown 6: Go to join up, inscribing signature when illiterate?EXITDDown 7: Spreading bile and hurt, is one incensed?THURIBLEDDown 8: Thorough work of a cleanerSWEEPINGDDown 13: Feel cold in outskirts of British part of LondonBLACKHEATHDDown 15: Aircraft transaction simple, they saySAILPLANEDDown 16: Highest in Mephistopheles is the highest in devilryMISCHIEFDDown 17: Light present during twilight, upliftingETHEREALDDown 19: Parent left to vacate Asian island for Asian cityMUMBAIDDown 20: Old newspaper man put Sun leader in the middleHEARSTDDown 23: Purge of soldiers in hospital department after uprisingENEMADDown 24: For which initially three in orchestra about right?TRIO