The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 8th September 2017 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 8th September 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 7: Rich relative given gold ring by Uncle SamSONOROUSAAcross 9: Ask for it?APPEALAAcross 10: See 24POORAAcross 11: Led astray by party leader taken in by ridiculous load of nonsenseFLAPDOODLEAAcross 12: Loud music on tablet, after soft drinkFRAPPEAAcross 14: Cool phone?LAID-BACKAAcross 15: Have complete faith in lawyers? Not initially, when upset about first of burglariesSWEARBYAAcross 17: One that's played with Pelé and Lukaku recalled a King Power outingUKULELEAAcross 20: Setter perhaps loves the German whose assistance is not always welcomedDO-GOODERAAcross 22: Lovely place to live no one wants?DESRESAAcross 23: Kids' mother follows nose, right away finding partyHOOTENANNYAAcross 24: Cat with bad intention gets the birdWHIPAAcross 25: May claim this? Patience possibly neededSTRONGAAcross 26: One that reads the Mirror in Lens?EYEGLASSDDown 1: It's never this cat getting run over, when looking both ways before beginning to walkTOMORROWDDown 2: Lout in black jumper turned upBOORDDown 3: Swell quarters, altogether sweetTOFFEEDDown 4: Carefully choose journalist welcoming new measure of resolutionHAND-PICKDDown 4: Carefully choose journalist welcoming new measure of resolutionHANDPICKDDown 5: Kiss-and-cuddle accounts are for the birdsSPOONBILLSDDown 6: French government with a Liberal left in chargeGALLICDDown 8: May claim this, from time wearing blackSTABLEDDown 13: Support for key person in soap playing instrumentPIANO STOOLDDown 16: Being a dad briefly involved frivolous reparteeBADINAGEDDown 18: Extremely wary, in case needing to cross lakeLEERIESTDDown 19: Caper around with the ultimate in ostentation?PRANCEDDown 21: Whence fortified wine once produced? On river there only, originallyOPORTODDown 22: Rising late, without handy place for early retirement?DAY BEDDDown 22: Rising late, without handy place for early retirement?DAYBEDDDown 24: See 24 acrossWILL