The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 20th September 2017 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 20th September 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Poet, otherwise sister to poet and painterROSSETTIAAcross 9: American who had four sisters in family in rural cottageALCOTTAAcross 10: Humorous writer, tragic figure abused by childrenLEARAAcross 11: Poet and novelist whose father was a detectiveCHESTERTONAAcross 12: Brothers putting together macabre writingGRIMMSAAcross 14: Mother dismissing the recorder of minutes for legal writerMORTIMERAAcross 15: Novelist repeating conclusion reached by member of 22 across's familyBENNETTAAcross 17: A book revised in new volume for son of Russian statesmanNABOKOVAAcross 20: Source of novel combination of children and partnersLAWRENCEAAcross 22: Novelist finding little energy in dotty auntsAUSTENAAcross 23: He wrote about brothers in party changing votes — heavens!DOSTOEVSKYAAcross 24: Friends of French literary father and sonAMISAAcross 25: Etonian yearbook author whose elder sibling saw everythingORWELLAAcross 26: Martin's father, 19th-century novelistKINGSLEYDDown 1: Happen in company encountered on way from ParisCOMETRUEDDown 2: Ruler initially used in producing triangle, square and rectangleTSARDDown 3: Spears and bowsSTICKSDDown 4: Cover up work of 22 across that's problematicDILEMMADDown 5: Cause of illness in kind of camel endlessly needing drug injectedBACTERIADDown 6: Offensive son, eager to learn about right, left separatelySCURRILOUSDDown 7: Performer's assistant goes to pieces when given new orderSTOOGEDDown 13: Relatively small groups one newcomer upset in digsMINORITIESDDown 16: In loving way, making proposal, with lady taking no noticeTENDERLYDDown 18: Singular craft seen in short humorous pieceONE-LINERDDown 19: Clearly produces Hawaiian instrument or Japanese ornamentNETSUKEDDown 21: On vessel overseas with king going southABOARDDDown 22: In a US city married undistinguished personANYONEDDown 24: Fail as boy, being oddly deficient in additionALSO