The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 28th March 2017 There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 28th March 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Offering to trick folkDONATIONAAcross 9: See 14 downBERTHAAAcross 10: Cloth cap in a city is retroALPACAAAcross 12: Bed for us at rear of office, conserving holidaysECOTOURSAAcross 13: Complain over nothing left for workers' shareCARAAcross 14: See 21BAILEYAAcross 16: Having answer, engage in attempt to win, losing in this programme?GAME SHOWAAcross 17: Ahead of strike, navy issue coarse stuffGROGRAMAAcross 20: Led soak to reform in office lunch?ALDESKOAAcross 23: See 26INSTANCEAAcross 24: Handled shirt, covered in regular pattern all roundTITLEDAAcross 26: Brief time made even briefer in power, sayFORAAcross 27: Saturate with pressure before eating foodPERMEATEAAcross 28: Back in Derbyshire on Snake Pass?ELAPSEAAcross 31: Only let out to act as senior servantBUTTLEAAcross 32: For Armstrong, it's Aldrin that takes the strainCOLANDERDDown 1: See 13POOLDDown 2: Joke with a lady?GAGADDown 3: Theft, once taxmen go in fastPIRACYDDown 4: Urged on wild bearUNDERGODDown 5: Major in a law degree, not the usualABNORMALDDown 6: Starry trio after gold is on mad raceORIONSBELTDDown 7: As solver, sound hesitant to get into second-rate stuffSHERLOCKDDown 11: Sound stimulus for princePHIDDown 14: For such artillery, protection at the front involves good earthworkBIGDDown 15: OK to run off with current partnerLEGITIMATEDDown 18: Wield axe round repetitively rhymed linesRONDEAUXDDown 19: Toughened Queen of the French upANNEALEDDDown 21: Here many condemned medieval sort of bridgeOLDDDown 22: About to leave submission for which counsel may argueDEFENCEDDown 24: Show fear, losing heart: stiff drink neededTREBLEDDown 25: See 11LIPDDown 29: Face problems, any number intruding on oneACNEDDown 30: Check incomplete caste markSTEM