The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 15th December 2016 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 15th December 2016. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Licence form falsified and filled out with unsourced requirementFREEDOMAAcross 5: Put off and rescheduled hosting day in ParisADJOURNAAcross 9: Out of capital, journalist immediately starts getting on with lifeBEINGAAcross 10: State positionSITUATIONAAcross 11: Want unpredictable result? How dull!LACKLUSTREAAcross 12: Combine temperature scale on exhaustFUSEAAcross 14: Working round obsession to wear cape leads to oblivionNOTHINGNESSAAcross 18: Alien, else Spanish, hourglass property?SHAPELINESSAAcross 21: President: "I appreciate that newspaper"TAFTAAcross 22: African city tot is given a yeast cakeADDIS ABABAAAcross 25: Soldier about to turn back warshipPRIVATEERAAcross 26: Right away, here's to you getting advancePOSITAAcross 27: Student of the sun absorbing extremes of temperatureSCHOLARAAcross 28: Reversing, say, a spacecraft's docking procedureMOORAGEDDown 1: A bone broochFIBULADDown 2: Previn certainly not all show!EVINCEDDown 3: Work at and learn to comprehend something needing to be filled in — a comfort to a setter?DOGBLANKETDDown 4: Folk artist who made use of tabletsMOSESDDown 5: An experience one's late in coming toAFTERLIFEDDown 6: He thought a lot of 9, our setter in casual wear creation, coming to end of clueJEANDDown 7: Not hardened, lacking cover, sunlessUNINUREDDDown 8: The very person to snoop around new swimmerNONEELSEDDown 13: Top cleaner: for instance, good synthetic waste productEGGSHAMPOODDown 15: Type of junior student's note attached to end of sensory organTHIRD-YEARDDown 16: They have the same atomic number (one), therefore, added to drinksISOTOPESDDown 17: It's deceitful — "hat", if clued cryptically?BADFAITHDDown 19: Disgust by dumping gold in natural gas locationNAUSEADDown 20: See 6SARTREDDown 23: After short time, one gets into one's pilgrim garmentIHRAMDDown 24: See 6PAUL