The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 8th August 2016 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 8th August 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Business expenses liable to cause a storm?OVERHEADCHARGESAAcross 9: Jack upsets aunt with the French spiderTARANTULAAAcross 10: Island for outcast in CopperbeltCORFUAAcross 11: Begged for petrol, initially, containing additivePLEADEDAAcross 12: Read without spontaneitySTUDIEDAAcross 13: Declaim regularly, being a priestELIAAcross 14: He searches for another gearFORAGERAAcross 17: Understand and win popularityCATCH ONAAcross 19: Frightful house — I'd moveHIDEOUSAAcross 22: Shorten a river crossingABRIDGEAAcross 24: High-class navy vesselURNAAcross 25: Gates secured by catches?WICKETSAAcross 26: Stunt of former pilot in a spinEXPLOITAAcross 28: They fly or take a trainRAILSAAcross 29: Useless advice!ECONOMISEAAcross 30: Result of not passing an oral examination?DENTALTREATMENTDDown 1: Feeling extremely happy, having reached the North Pole?ONTOPOFTHEWORLDDDown 2: Strange oriental lakeEERIEDDown 3: Ashamed to kill one's best friendHANGDOGDDown 4: Apart and sure to be differentASUNDERDDown 5: Form shown by Olympic finalists in big raceCLASSICDDown 6: Bill is an aristocrat, we hearACCOUNTDDown 7: Dressed for dinner, perhaps?GARNISHEDDDown 8: Money well spent on hearing aids?SOUNDINVESTMENTDDown 15: Revised version of a Communist battleREDACTIONDDown 16: One getting a lot of runs in AustraliaEMUDDown 18: A pound for a white dressALBDDown 20: Supervise, we hear, somewhere abroadOVERSEADDown 21: Dubious character?SUSPECTDDown 22: New name given to a single bloomANEMONEDDown 23: Relationship hit by drinkRAPPORTDDown 27: The girl with nothing to exist for?OLIVE