The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th February 2016 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th February 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Put on rack in custodial sentenceSTRETCHAAcross 5: Seek answers amid 24 or 25 sheetsINQUIREAAcross 10: Shakespeare's dog Nipper?CRABAAcross 11: Force into modest car and get strandedRUN AGROUNDAAcross 12: Expected to come back into season, almost like medieval societyFEUDALAAcross 13: Non-fliers, holding US wheel-protector back, honourably dischargedEMERITUSAAcross 14: Nameless 23 given high-tension illuminationSTARLIGHTAAcross 16: Man with no time but lots of money?MISERAAcross 17: Faux pas boss cut shortGAFFEAAcross 19: 7 squandered stand-inBLUEBEARDAAcross 23: Agog about origin of Liver BirdSTARLINGAAcross 24: Plough furrow backwards, becoming swollenTURGIDAAcross 26: Perfume for female Indian of rank holding an animal backFRANGIPANIAAcross 27: Kick-start computerBOOTAAcross 28: Outlay of former writer extracting Greek character from museEXPENSEAAcross 29: Go hither and thither with Shed and ’is missus?MEANDERDDown 2: Anguish concealed by mentors?TORMENTDDown 3: Plant journalists — one of them receives honourEMBEDDDown 4: Composer's strings binding soldiersCORELLIDDown 6: Fanatic collecting what's laid up in lumpNUGGETDDown 7: In Mexico, druid, dropping boundaries, reconstructed 19, sayUXORICIDEDDown 8: Neuro-doctor operated on Shakespeare's Globe?RONDUREDDown 9: Picture of brain spread around, coating new mushroom ringENCEPHALOGRAMDDown 15: Allusion to "taste for decapitation"?REFERENCEDDown 18: The Gaul gets to tear 6 apartASTERIXDDown 20: Get into tangle stirring 10 drinkENTWINEDDown 21: Capital inwardly greeting Zambia's rootstockRHIZOMEDDown 22: Star teacher is going round universitySIRIUSDDown 25: Endlessly dressing feathered friendROBIN