The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd January 2016 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd January 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Antimony pollutes dirty harbourGRIMSBYAAcross 5: Poorly assembled program in divine settingSCRAPPYAAcross 10: Without exception one's abandoned buildingBARNAAcross 11: Left back to dwell on the ball? It's up in the airTROPOPAUSEAAcross 12: Tolkien's art?MIDDLEAAcross 13: Leaves here to instruct parent heartlesslyTEA CADDYAAcross 14: I keep time, but I'm missing from relaunch of 28 27METRONOMEAAcross 16: See 24STICKAAcross 17: See 12EARTHAAcross 19: Airplane, a presidential one?JEFFERSONAAcross 23: See 4THELINESAAcross 24: Very disappointed about the Spanish holiday, without a phone extensionSELFIEAAcross 26: Alliance blocks programme of legislatorSENATORIALAAcross 27: See 28MORIAAcross 28: In endless remembrance, I bury all but the last skull among othersMEMENTOAAcross 29: Looking witheringly on apparently good fasteningPITYINGDDown 2: Grasp what's behind porkies, we are toldREALISEDDown 3: Very keen to keep working for unityMONADDDown 4: Where one may read in no man's land?BETWEENDDown 6: Chapter to be spoken or to be sungCHORALDDown 7: In brief panic attend to joint — I'm ready to carveALABASTERDDown 8: Researcher coopts daughter for experimentPOST DOCDDown 8: Researcher coopts daughter for experimentPOSTDOCDDown 9: Bum getting smaller? Mine is hellBOTTOMLESSPITDDown 15: Having run with the others, I grabbed some food to get backRETALIATEDDown 18: Perform greeting, welcoming non-female bossACHIEVEDDown 20: Pasta to satisfy one's hunger, while taking in the Guardian?FUSILLIDDown 21: Moronic sort of letterOMICRONDDown 22: Walking about 30cm requires no energyONFOOTDDown 25: Gordon Bennett is executed rudely, a BritLIMEY