The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 9th August 2017 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 9th August 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Milk, oddly in a way, is as much as one can bearARMLOADAAcross 5: Archdeacon querulously admitting defeatCONQUERAAcross 9: Very much welcomes large grantALLOTAAcross 10: Doctor buys extra radiography equipmentXRAYTUBESAAcross 11: Exciting era in which submariner happened on way to measure currentANEMOMETERAAcross 12: Arrange sources of love and laughter for everyoneALLAAcross 14: Tin containing a beer full of energy and cheerSANGUINENESSAAcross 18: Rhubarb wolfed down? I approve!GOBBLEDEGOOKAAcross 21: Man from island wearing sweater inside outSIRAAcross 22: Roughly laminate covers of prewar Chambers?PARLIAMENTAAcross 25: They hope to pass morning in Spain surrounded by old loversEXAMINEESAAcross 26: Dorothy Parker missing land she adoresDOTERAAcross 27: Most rich drunks finally repentLUSHESTAAcross 28: Warm brief statement is broadcastSUMMERYDDown 1: Mount first of attacks, retaliating against traitorARARATDDown 2: He told a tale of France's grand riverMILLERDDown 3: 1 in 100 associate after work by choiceOPTIONALLYDDown 4: Confederacy of eleven, assumed to fail?DIXIEDDown 5: Cliff goes round tip of west Ireland disfiguring the landscapeCRATERINGDDown 6: Take home books about foundations of the WestNETTDDown 7: Victorious, like an exemplary public schoolboy of old?UNBEATENDDown 8: Others not as unsettledRESTLESSDDown 13: Model modern mum snatching a minuteMEMORANDUMDDown 15: Gran opted to act as child's sponsorGODPARENTDDown 16: Eulogising extremely good woman with lines of great delicacyEGGSHELLDDown 17: Employ brainiest Manx folk from Madrid?IBERIANSDDown 19: The crux of recent researchCENTREDDown 20: Famous sons delay leavingSTARRYDDown 23: Young woman, over time, stays freshLASTSDDown 24: Policy of alliance regularly dismissedLINE