The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 22nd June 2017 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd June 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Contemptible to hammer it through backREPTILIANAAcross 10: Trump's vice, moneyPENCEAAcross 11: Bishop, say, tries fruitMANGOESAAcross 12: Perform in a long kind of boatGONDOLAAAcross 13: Change in current switched overEDITAAcross 14: Request to caller in telephone hell, said to infuriatePLEASEHOLDAAcross 16: See 14THELINEAAcross 17: New student, person who's bound to return with that womanFRESHERAAcross 19: Performance of coital nous in close contactOSCULATIONAAcross 22: Old city leader in sadistic dictator given gold starsURSAAAcross 24: Pub drink reportedly for memberINSIDERAAcross 25: Manage to detachPULL-OFFAAcross 26: Capital city in island close to Bangladesh, looking westwardHANOIAAcross 27: Reference that chap's found in houseTHESAURUSDDown 1: How we read the shift in world politics?FROMLEFTTORIGHTDDown 2: Let's see those teeth beginning to decay — I weep on failing to contain itOPENWIDEDDown 3: See 22MINORDDown 4: End rise of deficit in dropDISSOLVEDDown 5: Shown up, Paul's clothes embarrassing ultimately, a poserENIGMADDown 6: Web designer's tool present in labouringSPINNERETDDown 7: Popular Wizard of Oz role as a wholeIN TOTODDown 8: Offer of accommodation fine mostly, holiday in capital lacking luxury, initiallyBED-AND-BREAKFASTDDown 15: Beak funny, that is, for comedic ornithologistBILLODDIEDDown 17: Ripple of waves less rigidFLOPPIERDDown 18: Love for sale, a great deal secured by princeHARLOTRYDDown 20: Function is elevated in solid figureCOSINEDDown 21: Address in European city, not in and not outTURN TODDown 23: Swimmer looking miserableBLEAK