The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 11th July 2017 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 11th July 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Upmarket — releasing one backside and pinching another, prone to wrinklesCRUMPLYAAcross 5: Lexicographer wearing underpants?JOHNSONAAcross 9: Capture look capturing foolLASSOAAcross 10: Ink may run into crone's activity for sunny daysHAYMAKINGAAcross 11: President's musical 21 mostly tinnedCHAIRWOMANAAcross 12: Temporary home of excavationsDIGSAAcross 14: Starting to catch a jerk stumbling into crevice? Splendid!CRACKERJACKAAcross 18: Head of government to OK thoroughfare stopping short of scaffoldGALLOWS-TREEAAcross 21: Flash car carrying nothing back to incubatorWOMBAAcross 22: Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop aroundPROCTOLOGYAAcross 25: Harmlessness of Old Town hosting university pub, previouslyINNOCUITYAAcross 26: Play prosecutor penning sheepDRAMAAAcross 27: Rushed around, keeping study causticERODENTAAcross 28: Unreal train route leads to genuine provinceUTRECHTDDown 1: Material impounded by evangelical iconoclastCALICODDown 2: Throw aunties out? Not I!UNSEATDDown 3: Mathematical equipment on side of agricultural vehiclePROTRACTORDDown 4: Boor's gleeful exclamationYAHOODDown 4: Boor's gleeful exclamationYAHOO!DDown 5: Bird and elk embroiled in conflict with careless pedestrianJAYWALKERDDown 6: Try to pick upHEARDDown 7: Shaky armistice cut short by weaponSCIMITARDDown 8: Ask again about portNAGASAKIDDown 13: Sponger to dance, wearing jaunty fedoraFREELOADERDDown 15: Voiceless, is in a phone company? That's like something out of IonescoABSURDISTDDown 16: Meringue material, for instance, affected weightEGG WHITEDDown 17: Musical genre for sweetheart on top of sergeant, sayFLAMENCODDown 19: Composite picture of patriarchMOSAICDDown 20: Soldier, perhaps, under war god and despotTYRANTDDown 23: Rodent getting self-effacing cat half-cutCOYPUDDown 24: High point of item carried overACME