The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 1st December 2015 There are 15 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 1st December 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Escape? Never!GET AWAYAAcross 1: Escape? Never!GETAWAYAAcross 5: Wrong treatment — not the first to cause extreme sufferingTORTUREAAcross 9: Superior part of Oxford?UPPERAAcross 10: Clapped out software program subsequently much admiredAPPLAUDEDAAcross 11: Top horse for an executive scoutHEADHUNTERAAcross 12: Endlessly stroke stomachCRAWAAcross 14: Spooner's rig fabricated for forward movementPROGRESSIONAAcross 18: Treat me with transplanted nerve tissueWHITE MATTERAAcross 21: Adolescent right to leave wooden utensilsTEENAAcross 22: Around the end of night shift, concierge becomes selfishEGOCENTRICAAcross 25: Clarify dodgy clue that's holding a little backELUCIDATEAAcross 26: Muscle, a little thing in the earMIGHTAAcross 27: Get ready to stop mum's bagpipesMUSETTEAAcross 28: He runs down animal outside stall — tail sliced offDECRIERDDown 1: Call for quiet, say, being tactlessGAUCHEDDown 2: Large tile exactly placed around edges of plinthTOP HATDDown 3: Bicker over one dispatching a member of the flockWORSHIPPERDDown 4: Barney scratches head — terrible itchYEARNDDown 5: Classified status protects English constitutionTOP-SECRETDDown 6: Rise up behind parentREARDDown 7: Corroborate where Nabokov placed comma?UNDERPINDDown 8: Providing funds, though die in the red?ENDOWINGDDown 13: Tremendous novel, so romanticASTRONOMICDDown 15: Pop round letter bearing oven bill insideORANGEADEDDown 16: Firing squad place inventor in lineSWAT TEAMDDown 17: Salad ingredient or Spooner's green nightmare?PINENUTSDDown 19: Good cook rehashes Italian starters for a spellGRI-GRIDDown 19: Good cook rehashes Italian starters for a spellGRIGRIDDown 20: Duck! A wheels's worked free from the motorbikeSCOTERDDown 23: Faith burned missing matCREEDDDown 24: Intimate clinch in TV partHINT