The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 22nd January 2015 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd January 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Big star to preserve workCANOPUSAAcross 5: With it, answer and leave showCHICAGOAAcross 9: Social class? Sign of Labour ignoring southeast backingORDERAAcross 10: Ed cut party talk that's complexELABORATEAAcross 11: A fault, ace — I go off for drinkCAFE AU LAITAAcross 12: Mansion? Fortune downPILEAAcross 14: Silly Myleene Klass thrived — financial red herring? How it stinks (The 27)AVERYANCIENTAAcross 18: One squeezed by awful mansion tax: Myleene ultimately probesEXAMINATIONSAAcross 21: See 14LIKEAAcross 22: Behind bank's financial summaryBOTTOM LINEAAcross 25: Sexy one to go on about "me"EROGENOUSAAcross 26: Mostly tight musicianSTINGAAcross 27: English politician: tax houses uproarTEMPESTAAcross 28: See 14ANDFISHDDown 1: Election's about house: formalityCHOICEDDown 2: Northern, overdrawn, not working: sleepNOD OFFDDown 3: Left a large English home? Against cuts? A blood vessel pops outPORTAL VEINDDown 4: See 14SMELLDDown 5: Union clashes? Channel 5 twice air broadcastCHARIVARIDDown 6: Current Tory imageICONDDown 7: Desires for wealth: a Conservative blocks changesAVARICESDDown 8: What greedy person does worries Left, at the top?OVEREATSDDown 13: "Cut costs so income moves" (Miliband)ECONOMISEDDDown 15: Models earn, so exposed figureREASON OUTDDown 16: Determined man with lines twistedHELL-BENTDDown 16: Determined man with lines twistedHELLBENTDDown 17: Film seen here as ship runs into catastrophe?DARKROOMDDown 19: British eyes reportedly all over Klass — girl's out wearing this?BIKINIDDown 20: Left England, taxes without cuts — hard periodLENGTHDDown 23: Shell out! Estate's includedTESTADDown 24: Myleene's gutted about Pure and SimpleMERE