The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 3rd August 2016 There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd August 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Short program about English fruit producerAPPLE TREEAAcross 10: Spy chief taken in by deception, in a senseSMELLAAcross 11: Standing before courtERECTAAcross 12: Travel with author's son and private teacherGOVERNESSAAcross 13: Interpreter of text, say, kept in college mostlyEXEGETEAAcross 14: Organisations unknown in small parts of plantSYSTEMSAAcross 17: Bit of a bloomer finishes off chess game — mateSEPALAAcross 19: Late genius that may prefix other solutionsECOAAcross 20: What poets generally do, Keats and Yeats don'tRHYMEAAcross 21: National leader performing in moving protestMONARCHAAcross 22: Part of grounds and pitch where kids can playSANDPITAAcross 24: Ruined couple's mutual fund — that shows effect of world revolutionFOUCAULTSAAcross 26: Except for its head, river is brownUMBERAAcross 28: Travels round city on LoireTOURSAAcross 29: Languages such as Hebrew, including old study of signsSEMIOTICSDDown 1: Celebrity of European person showing up hereNAMEDDown 2: Field hospital under pressure in dry settingSPHEREDDown 3: Pound invested in lesser bet — oddly, it's bound to make moneyBEST SELLERDDown 3: Pound invested in lesser bet — oddly, it's bound to make moneyBESTSELLERDDown 4: Pair contracted fever in capitalPRAGUEDDown 5: Male put on a garment nothing stopsHEAVESTODDown 6: Top player suffering reverse at first as leading manTSARDDown 7: Leading pairs eliminated from race came late — very grave situationCEMETERYDDown 8: Isolated state reduced, unfortunatelyALASDDown 13: Page in some novel set in town, of courseEPSOMDDown 15: Suddenly put in the know, quietly call in childSPRINGUPONDDown 16: Not dry, like 10 of 27, regardless of 1SWEETDDown 18: See 24 acrossPENDULUMDDown 19: Flaws in conclusions from some idiotic ass without sound reflectionECHOLESSDDown 22: Notice about South American oil sourceSESAMEDDown 23: Piano I installed in disorderly club open to allPUBLICDDown 24: Fellow scoffed a lotFATEDDown 25: Primate set over south part of churchAPSEDDown 27: Pink was revoltingROSE