The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 31st July 2017 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 31st July 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Go around in women's clothingSKIRTAAcross 10: Simply gives us tea when out — depend on it!AUSTERELYAAcross 11: Calls may be made via these money marketsEXCHANGESAAcross 12: Schemes thrown asideIDEASAAcross 13: One with a large bill gets the Spanish into a dreadful panicPELICANAAcross 15: One with a complaint but is prepared to waitPATIENTAAcross 17: Ideal stage for kitchen-sink drama?APRONAAcross 18: Comfortable place to sit and drinkLAPAAcross 20: Lake in Tanzania included in many a safariNYASAAAcross 22: At present not there, nor anywhere elseNOWHEREAAcross 25: Eggs on head of school — it's not for boysROEDEANAAcross 26: Cut and wound wild bearsSABREAAcross 27: Dramatic performance in translationRENDITIONAAcross 30: It needs pluck to play in triangular formationBALALAIKAAAcross 31: Weak and unable to succeed outrightFRAILDDown 1: Setting up Italian agreement, the French give groundISLEDDown 2: Looking round for a letter?CIRCULARDDown 3: Sicilian hotheadETNADDown 4: On the verge of alarming changesMARGINALDDown 5: Goes through customs at universityUSESUPDDown 6: Underground movement providing oppositionRESISTANCEDDown 7: About to give way and withdrawRECEDEDDown 8: Potato peelers may miss them, if they don't keep them peeledEYESDDown 13: Beginner in discomfort — that's obviousPLAINDDown 14: Rags-to-riches story recalled in new adaptationCINDERELLADDown 16: A writer Kipling never expected to meetTWAINDDown 19: A payment covered by friend of father, perhapsPARENTALDDown 21: A woman in Minnesota is likely to be thisAMERICANDDown 23: Bending elbow with boozer, beginning to sway unsteadilyWOBBLEDDown 24: An insect from near WiganEARWIGDDown 26: Boss upset and shows distressSOBSDDown 28: Suspect in a short time loses headIFFYDDown 29: A blue or white flowerNILE