The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st April 2017 There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st April 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 7: Unconvincing verdict on reorganisationCONTRIVEDAAcross 8: Western sultanate's frailty, according to HamletWOMANAAcross 9: Like a great stylist Puritans love madlyPROUSTIANAAcross 10: Baffle with incomplete limbSTUMPAAcross 12: Folk band turned into premier ethnographic exhibit, for startersPEOPLEAAcross 13: A bird, dropping one animal, returned diving equipmentAQUA-LUNGAAcross 13: A bird, dropping one animal, returned diving equipmentAQUALUNGAAcross 16: Philosopher placing article amid pieces of musicBARTHESAAcross 19: Snake's exhausted, holding soldiers backSERPENTAAcross 22: Disagree about American electrical apparatusDIFFUSERAAcross 25: Promise to put piano on shelfPLEDGEAAcross 27: Be useful to island engulfed by reflux of magmaAVAILAAcross 28: Eels prove slippery and fail to riseOVERSLEEPAAcross 29: Slow down born libertineBRAKEAAcross 30: Important person's documentation found in herePRESIDENTDDown 1: Unrefined blades in churchCOARSEDDown 2: Set about 30 8 of 18 3?STRUMPETDDown 3: True vice half-destroyed, surprisingly, by its oppositeVIRTUEDDown 4: Escape from 5, getting A & E confusedGET AWAYDDown 4: Escape from 5, getting A & E confusedGETAWAYDDown 5: Entrance friend eating golden treacle to begin withPORTALDDown 6: Squirrel's introduction to nut curtailed by fishSALMONDDown 11: Odoriferous plant secures second trickRUSEDDown 14: See 17USEDDown 15: See 16GETDDown 16: Be thrifty and move on timeBUDDDown 17: Say no to iron getting turned into 11REFDDown 18: Requiring little effort to be relaxedEASYDDown 20: Rule out piece of Chopin, say, covering his headPRECLUDEDDown 21: Virtuosic old city set in Spanish coastBRAVURADDown 23: Upend fountain erected around the beginning of NovemberINVERTDDown 24: Loud, dangerous and full of funFRISKYDDown 25: District capital's hospitalPARISHDDown 26: Novelist about to infiltrate some DNAGREENE