The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 1st August 2017 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 1st August 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Country that informally gives boozer heartAUSTRALIAAAcross 6: Advantage of top-cut grassEDGEAAcross 8: Canadian resort artistWHISTLERAAcross 9: Grey hat tipped or removedSOMBREAAcross 10: Cross, if Yorkshire holds become fixedOSSIFYAAcross 11: Wasn't the only entertainer to fashion hoods etcCOHOSTEDAAcross 12: Key sporting event about to returnOPENERAAcross 15: Hacked email about eastern country's US-style diseaseLEUKEMIAAAcross 16: Breakdown is its own possible cureANALYSISAAcross 19: Runners on this start to slow stepSLEDGEAAcross 21: Eat it and dancing is hitATTAINEDAAcross 22: Fold back electronic snail mail reply facilitator (Roman Catholic)CREASEAAcross 24: Miss relief — in piecesMAIDENAAcross 25: Act without control and don't spare a tearLETITRIPAAcross 26: Put up with no bull!BEARAAcross 27: So astronauts may be bound to get tense, being overwhelmed by hardware malfunctionEARTHWARDDDown 1: Result of one who was fired up for a sporting contest?ASHESDDown 2: Rows over press-ganging school's head for assemblySESSIONDDown 3: Broadcast put backRELAYDDown 4: Year One, being involved in Latin: state "poetic"LYRICALDDown 5: Orchestrated UN's clash with second German political unionANSCHLUSSDDown 6: Sense a change, taking millions all togetherEN MASSEDDown 7: Digging group entertaining fancy diner?GARDENINGDDown 13: Pointedly edit written work?PUNCTUATEDDown 14: Figures on ancestral houses echoing qualityRESONANCEDDown 17: Character who drowned, one grabbed by shark possiblyLEANDERDDown 18: Senior, quaintly rotten inside, whose clients put something on the horsesSADDLERDDown 20: Vengeful character taking pick to Egyptian godELECTRADDown 22: Round hook?CATCHDDown 23: Dies in distress — Kay intervenes — sent heavenwardSKIED