The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 17th April 2017 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 17th April 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: See (with 26 down) 5WELLSAAcross 10: Fish from port perturbed European cooksTORPEDOESAAcross 11: Top person now harbouring unconscious mass of primitive energiesPRESIDENTAAcross 12: Get extremely tiddly, imbibing rum in this?TODDYAAcross 13: Pass on education, primarily, in thisCOLLEGEAAcross 15: Occupied regal office in foreign edificeREIGNEDAAcross 17: Good-heartedly backed this seeSIGHTAAcross 18: Ungainly vessel nevertheless returnedTUBAAcross 20: See 28DERBYAAcross 22: In place of bishop, I'd put back old chessmen, oddlyDIOCESEAAcross 25: See 23 13 across, or 11LINCOLNAAcross 26: Minimal information about English fellow in suitBEFITAAcross 27: Middle East airline introducing key moves to land elsewhereEMIGRATESAAcross 30: Otherwise stern, sees what's lacking in long sentencesTERSENESSAAcross 31: Piece of choral music in Anglican townCANTODDown 1: Hands over in exchangeSWAPDDown 2: Award for seaside resort that's sad and wearyBLUE FLAGDDown 3: It's a north-facing wine regionASTIDDown 4: See step broken on end of flight most difficult to climbSTEEPESTDDown 5: Dramatist, say, who corrects things that are wrong in speech?WRITERDDown 6: Spanned, it's clear, in first studyBESTRIDDENDDown 7: See 5LONDONDDown 8: See getting regular letters from episcopacyESPYDDown 13: Prepared to steal from box with diamondsCASEDDDown 14: Prayers irritate when inserted in recordsENTREATIESDDown 16: Academic accepting you once as leading figure in fieldDOYENDDown 19: Bishop and I cutting version of St Luke that's taking up most spaceBULKIESTDDown 21: Applauding after son's caught settling down to sleepROOSTINGDDown 23: See 29OXFORDDDown 24: See 23 13 acrossEXETERDDown 26: See (with 9) 18BATHDDown 28: People care when the odds are switchedRACEDDown 29: From what we hear, drive away, partly brakeSHOE