The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 1st September 2017 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st September 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Terror group erroneously claim to be thisISLAMICAAcross 5: Welcoming home girl getting pardonAMNESTYAAcross 10: A sound measure of the third manABELAAcross 11: What pilot does when seeing problematic rubbish bins filledFLIESBLINDAAcross 12: See art or 27 as represented in overseas territory celebrationEASTERAAcross 13: Man like Esau in Spooner's prayerHAIL MARYAAcross 14: Convertible car in this quarterCHRISTIANAAcross 16: Mentally prepare note to the far right of Germany and SwitzerlandPSYCHAAcross 17: Seize chateau at last by surprise? Not half!USURPAAcross 19: City in France, I trust, unwrapped fancy mealJERUSALEMAAcross 23: Blokes in song by northern quarterARMENIANAAcross 24: Quarter aspiration after jet engine startsJEWISHAAcross 26: Top player pocketing Arab cash is in partsSERIALISEDAAcross 27: Pine, perhaps, when one leaves Scottish islandTREEAAcross 28: Lack of faith in so many leaders chasing articlesATHEISMAAcross 29: Very fond of a party groupADORINGDDown 2: Time off creating soap and bubbles, primarily here?SABBATHDDown 3: Dish out a great deal, we hearALLOTDDown 4: Dead heart, say, is actually about rightINFARCTDDown 6: Selfie regularly appears in mother's quarterMUSLIMDDown 7: Expecting trouble with seafood pie, as cooked outsideECLAMPSIADDown 8: Of 21 philosophy carried by a distant rickshawTANTRICDDown 9: Shape designed to represent obstinacyPIGHEADEDNESSDDown 15: Harsh realities for a citizen of ancient kingdomISRAELITEDDown 18: One tempted mother of ten and paid out without hesitationSERPENTDDown 20: Fresh in Frankfurt and green on the insideUNJADEDDDown 21: 12 noon and it's heading to 90°EASTERNDDown 22: With some aplomb, I bless King James and coBIBLESDDown 25: Chestnut or biscuit?WATER