The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 14th December 2016 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 14th December 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: One gives a clue for dogSETTERAAcross 4: One gives a clue for dogPOINTERAAcross 9: Millions invested in business proposition that's a racketCOMMOTIONAAcross 10: Card sharp gets in a roundTAROTAAcross 11: Roman city captured by portrait, somehow, if a Turner?OSTIAAAcross 12: Develop less macho view of hardnessMOHS SCALEAAcross 13: Vehicle reversed by man taking car from Cary GrantSUBSIDYAAcross 15: Extorted money and smuggled a bit out of SpainRANSOMAAcross 17: Novelist concerned with probing part of heritageGREENEAAcross 19: A couple of letters or papers around chartDIGRAPHAAcross 22: Black bear's caged along with platform to play onBANDSTANDAAcross 24: One Colombian article about military police forceIMPELAAcross 26: Birdman's former dutyTITHEAAcross 27: See women getting drunk, showing cleavageLOW-NECKEDAAcross 28: Dodgy lawyer has uneasy rest after retiringSHYSTERAAcross 29: Eastern mines lie levelSTOREYDDown 1: Kinky corsets in private and public?SECTORSDDown 2: Invite right-winger to abandon disdainTEMPTDDown 3: Morse's last case stirring up memoriesEVOCATIVEDDown 4: Provider of hit joke on opening of French letterPUNCHERDDown 5: Grimace when run's abandoned, having stress in footICTUSDDown 6: Sailor's on river past an elevated Spanish portTARRAGONADDown 7: Reportedly, any abstemious soldiers must get promoted in rankROTTENDDown 8: Talk rudely to leader, creating alarmDISMAYDDown 14: Position of aristo having high tea with CorbynBARONETCYDDown 16: Two lots of Eng Lit works to be slapdashNEGLIGENTDDown 18: Current associate's holding back merchantETAILERDDown 19: Democratic Party bores have to cheatDODOWNDDown 20: Break cover, following duck through grassHOLIDAYDDown 21: American Psycho becomes less violentABATESDDown 23: One's in bed with female from another planet?SHEETDDown 25: Rod Laver's back following nudgePOKER