The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 4th July 2016 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 4th July 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Force acquiring thousands by way of businessCOMMERCEAAcross 5: Sculpted statue — that's clever!ASTUTEAAcross 9: Remove it, as ordered, for extra payOVERTIMEAAcross 10: Shaving, father receives phone callPARINGAAcross 12: The Muhammedan world is hitISLAMAAcross 13: Reserved, but singularly partisanONONESIDEAAcross 14: Smith's work with a principal is progressing wellFORGINGAHEADAAcross 18: Conclude negotiations about the academic year?AGREETOTERMSAAcross 21: Food from the earth — £500 to an aficionadoMONKEY NUTAAcross 23: Impertinence one might get from a waiterSAUCEAAcross 24: Shade that makes little differenceNUANCEAAcross 25: Poison counterANTIDOTEAAcross 26: Bottom place on top of a mountSADDLEAAcross 27: Stopped and taken into custodyARRESTEDDDown 1: Inevitably, it crumblesCOOKIEDDown 2: Food that makes us extremely slim. lithe and invigorated, for startersMUESLIDDown 3: Off the cuff, so to speakEX TEMPOREDDown 3: Off the cuff, so to speakEXTEMPOREDDown 4: Such land is an accepted basis of discussionCOMMON GROUNDDDown 6: Plate of fishSCALEDDown 7: Employed the Italian in various dutiesUTILISEDDDown 8: Urge school principals to become intellectualsEGGHEADSDDown 11: A singing bank teller?COUNTERTENORDDown 15: Peace for the time being — it's a crime, if one breaks itARMISTICEDDown 16: Sort of step many debtors neglect to makePAYMENTSDDown 17: An over-indulgent draughtsman?DRUNKARDDDown 19: Yet you may feel so, if taken in by somebodyPUT OUTDDown 19: Yet you may feel so, if taken in by somebodyPUTOUTDDown 20: A story, for example, viewed in advanceLEGENDDDown 22: We hear forty of the Romans distinguish themselvesEXCEL