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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..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: One gives a clue for dog
AAcross 4: One gives a clue for dog
AAcross 9: Millions invested in business proposition that's a racket
AAcross 10: Card sharp gets in a round
AAcross 11: Roman city captured by portrait, somehow, if a Turner?
AAcross 12: Develop less macho view of hardness
AAcross 13: Vehicle reversed by man taking car from Cary Grant
AAcross 15: Extorted money and smuggled a bit out of Spain
AAcross 17: Novelist concerned with probing part of heritage
AAcross 19: A couple of letters or papers around chart
AAcross 22: Black bear's caged along with platform to play on
AAcross 24: One Colombian article about military police force
AAcross 26: Birdman's former duty
AAcross 27: See women getting drunk, showing cleavage
AAcross 28: Dodgy lawyer has uneasy rest after retiring
AAcross 29: Eastern mines lie level
DDown 1: Kinky corsets in private and public?
DDown 2: Invite right-winger to abandon disdain
DDown 3: Morse's last case stirring up memories
DDown 4: Provider of hit joke on opening of French letter
DDown 5: Grimace when run's abandoned, having stress in foot
DDown 6: Sailor's on river past an elevated Spanish portTARRAGONA
DDown 7: Reportedly, any abstemious soldiers must get promoted in rank
DDown 8: Talk rudely to leader, creating alarm
DDown 14: Position of aristo having high tea with Corbyn
DDown 16: Two lots of Eng Lit works to be slapdash
DDown 18: Current associate's holding back merchantETAILER
DDown 19: Democratic Party bores have to cheatDODOWN
DDown 20: Break cover, following duck through grass
DDown 21: American Psycho becomes less violent
DDown 23: One's in bed with female from another planet?
DDown 25: Rod Laver's back following nudge
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