The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 9th September 2015 There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 9th September 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 4: Article removed from commercial vessel for street traderCOSTERAAcross 6: After test the fellow's embarrassed like a pampered child?MOTHEREDAAcross 9: River runs out of pastoral Paradise in old part of CanadaACADIAAAcross 10: One of fifteen, number attending party held by employeesSTANDOFFAAcross 11: Butterfly to emulate uroboros?SWALLOWTAILAAcross 15: Lively policeman with greeting for oldCHIPPERAAcross 17: Explosive female in almost unbelievable incident of moral declineTHEFALLAAcross 18: Ace in odd bits of colour, one with great skill — and French tooCLAUDE MONETAAcross 22: Unorthodox doctrine in town with suffragan bishopCREDITONAAcross 23: Plant or treeORPINEAAcross 24: Relations in birthday act seen to be clownsBUMPKINSAAcross 25: Made a sudden movement, unlike a worm, sayLUNGEDDDown 1: Facial feature's pleasantly warmGENIALDDown 2: Shortened, like restricted road traversing areaCONTRACTEDDDown 3: Translation of Hellenic materialCHENILLEDDown 4: Events for three-year-olds in form one starts with cardboard and scissors?CLASSICSDDown 5: Medicine man's phoney and heartless old buffoonSHAMANICDDown 7: Bird in small stream first to fly offROOKDDown 8: Expert providing successive notes on timeDEFTDDown 12: Way to circumvent problem that could make little king quarrelWORKAROUNDDDown 13: A Parisian can get enthralled by witch, making a lasting impressionHAUNTINGDDown 14: Fancy having machine for catching fish!FLATHEADDDown 16: A narrow opening in river provides recreation for the JapanesePACHINKODDown 19: Repetition of odd upsetting medical abnormality?MURMURDDown 20: Disease unwanted by gardener in his cabbagesSCABDDown 21: Mrs Merkel, say, in need of a new starting-point?GERM