The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th March 2016 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th March 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Whole of oblique triangleINTEGRALAAcross 9: Objects of contemplation left in parts of churchNAVELSAAcross 10: 101, or 99?CONEAAcross 11: My darling and I intertwine with desireADMIRINGLYAAcross 12: Hollow in part of Yorkshire golf course?TROUGHAAcross 14: Poorness of English team, half-heartedly shamefacedEXIGUITYAAcross 15: Pain he's suffering to get fitINSHAPEAAcross 17: Wordy poetry about personal problemVERBOSEAAcross 20: Flipping dreary bogs in Arctic outpostSVALBARDAAcross 22: Banks leaving Barbados to move overseasABROADAAcross 23: New product in pub getting enthusiastic receptionINNOVATIONAAcross 24: Betting money VW finally goes westPOOLAAcross 25: Rodin's The Kiss is French — and most permissiveLAXESTAAcross 26: Typical examples of sanctimonious writings on MDMAEPITOMESDDown 1: Accompanied by men, fled from mountain principalityANDORRANDDown 2: 24 across and nothing moreMEREDDown 3: Inhalation on entering waterBREATHDDown 4: Fallen plumes arranged end to endSLUMPEDDDown 5: Add life to Greene's novel about Haiti's nadirENERGISEDDown 6: 2 perhaps, yet more unfeelingEVENNUMBERDDown 7: 49 to 51, time to be gloomyILLLITDDown 13: Sinful single nurses call for attentionUNHALLOWEDDDown 16: Rustic vegetables infested by insects?PEASANTYDDown 18: Rise as one, delighted to welcome veteranSEASONEDDDown 19: She displays plates of meat to be probed by doctorLDRIVERDDown 21: Damager of London museum going on trial at lastVANDALDDown 22: First of attempts to free the BBCAUNTIEDDown 24: Heavy tread of diplodocusPLOD