The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 7th September 2017 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 7th September 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Charlotte's content to hold Australian's handAPPLAUSEAAcross 9: The sort of band Jones (Jane) twice discovered pinching moneyONE-MANAAcross 10: Location of paintings retrospective shows classETATAAcross 11: Gardener, little chap, strangely sham with cap of redTITCHMARSHAAcross 12: Police chief did this bad?RANCIDAAcross 14: A national song written about a curseANATHEMAAAcross 15: Who can't broadcast with eye open?ONWATCHAAcross 17: Routinely heard to use salsa in composition?AS USUALAAcross 20: We've no Messiah — Handel's beginning to adopt chicken dietHEATHENSAAcross 22: See uniform, intercepting US composer leaving home, make wavesBECURLAAcross 23: How nice it can be with Aled being immodest!INDELICATEAAcross 24: Take leaders from newsman in Classic knees-upNICKAAcross 25: Barking movie star, smarter nakedLASSIEAAcross 26: Commonwealth leader shot — very good one!TURNBULLDDown 1: Like The Lark, put ad around shelterUPATDAWNDDown 2: Make mark on Brunning's first collectionBLOTDDown 3: Brahms and Liszt used to put people outOUSTEDDDown 4: What's produced at three regularly? Yes!TEA TRAYDDown 5: How Date Nights finally dizzified blondes?TOWHEADSDDown 6: In what orchestras make, the pay varies — there's no universal system of thoughtMETAPHYSICDDown 7: Film, the essence of J Williams: AmistadIAMSAMDDown 13: Suchet's fancy, blending in variety of rare liqueurCHARTREUSEDDown 16: Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut againCLERIHEWDDown 18: General passages written up inspired by Indian city?AGRICOLADDown 19: Gnossiennes, part of which this ropemaker's got intoESPARTODDown 21: Camille Saint-Saëns, without Ms Callas, is, I suspect, typical of a European hotheadETNEANDDown 22: Makes dim British listeners embrace the overture to LohengrinBLEARSDDown 24: Bills writers run up in bars on vacationNIBS