The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 18th March 2016 There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 18th March 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Punch thingsCLOBBERAAcross 5: Second before day's end took a heartbeatSYSTOLEAAcross 9: Netting first of three, expensive back scoredRATEDAAcross 10: Tucking away feast, German mathematician demonstrating vulgar qualityGAUDINESSAAcross 11: Dig in order to find plantFRITILLARYAAcross 12: Stop New York baseball team getting turned overSTEMAAcross 14: Pictures in sacred city detailed for spiritual healerMEDICINE MANAAcross 18: 14's heavy African freight?HIPPOCRATESAAcross 21: A couple in the end misbehaving, all kicking offITEMAAcross 22: Stress fracture acute, can't move in conclusionACCENTUATEAAcross 25: Dutch heart and soul in continental islanderTASMANIANAAcross 26: Item handed over a century after the onset of battleBATONAAcross 27: Yellow fleece, layer upon layer?CHICKENAAcross 28: More than one current meeting I cancelled, conference closes during tourTIDE RIPAAcross 28: More than one current meeting I cancelled, conference closes during tourTIDERIPDDown 1: A service dividing the Church shows bottleCARAFEDDown 2: Get the better of the fool among us? That's not rightOUTWITDDown 3: Morbid fascination ultimately ludicrous about low land in CornwallBODMINMOORDDown 4: August — that isn't bitter, on the contraryREGALDDown 5: Dinosaur slightly injured, shotSQUARECUTDDown 6: See 27SKINDDown 7: Extra work messed up, remove itOVERTIMEDDown 8: Relief to chew over source of lifeEASEMENTDDown 13: Final entry in diary dated soon, Brexit primarily catastrophicANDSOTOBEDDDown 15: Leadership ends in power struggle, in a manner of speakingDIRECTIONDDown 16: Following one god, jerk admits crimeTHEISTICDDown 17: A child of the Fourth Estate endlessly partying in Zermatt, say?APRESSKIDDown 19: See 24MATTERDDown 20: New brew in drink certainly securedSEWNUPDDown 23: Surrealist taking piece from pattern, stripedERNSTDDown 24: Sinister affair that's hypotheticalDARK