The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 7th March 2017 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 7th March 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: In part from ancestral courtROMANCEAAcross 5: Lie about providing effervescent tonicFICTIONAAcross 9: Advocate of trade holding back titleBARRISTERAAcross 10: Focus of Detective Frost?CRIMEAAcross 11: Porky's tip on the radioTALEAAcross 12: R-rendition of Celtic air (Like a Long Tail Feather)RECTRICIALAAcross 14: Revulsion of empty hangar filled with gold, ornate ring topsHORRORAAcross 15: Conductor wants date put offRATTLEDAAcross 16: Use a needle to wind back bird film?WESTERNAAcross 18: Notch almost circling rod, used in a certain style of walkingNORDICAAcross 20: Universal misfit with loud mobile?FILMSTUDIOAAcross 21: "Broadcast not fair!": sweet, wrinkly thingUGLIAAcross 24: Gallery not good for Christ's sayingsLOGIAAAcross 25: Fancies cultivated US soil in Louisiana's capitalILLUSIONSAAcross 26: United, king and queen stamp about — bizarreSURREALAAcross 27: Moral sense against lost disciplineSCIENCEDDown 1: Android's radical with boron implant?ROBOTDDown 2: Look after extra large fruitMORELLODDown 3: Rather bleak form of ironNOIRDDown 4: Go-getting internee, Pearl, tearing around the cityENTREPRENEURIALDDown 5: Basics of brewing Pilsner (cf spirit)FIRST PRINCIPLESDDown 6: Account on agency model in essence is prepared Italian-styleCACCIATOREDDown 7: "First in Latin, almost", I swaggeredINITIALDDown 8: Wound up like a compass?NEEDLEDDDown 13: Appeared to gobble, er, lush spread — such a pity!CRUELSHAMEDDown 16: Pads out batter cakesWAFFLESDDown 17: Last leg, erecting housing for three-year-old eventSTLEGERDDown 19: Might describe toenail wax with local protectionINGROWNDDown 22: Baby problem?ISSUEDDown 23: Like the Channel Islands, having cells for sporesASCI