The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 25th October 2017 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th October 2017. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: In drink, elder knocked over, seeing starsPEGASUSAAcross 5: Awful rogue bedding good fanGROUPIEAAcross 9: Preamble, introduction to read in literary compositionPROEMAAcross 10: Switch back selectionREARRANGEAAcross 11: To a great degree, where taste initially is found in sweetness?INMANYWAYSAAcross 12: Unsatisfactory track, non-starterPOORAAcross 14: Entering sport, degenerate retaining cards originally — general idea behind poker?PROCTOLOGISTAAcross 18: Toper sloshed, post complaintPROTESTATIONAAcross 21: Sell a pup to birdROOKAAcross 22: What do I find sensually gratifying? Don't mention it!MYPLEASUREAAcross 25: Winger starred with flankers in blue pantsREDBREASTAAcross 26: Where Victoria found love, priest's vestment not required, stillINERTAAcross 27: Jeer, as local put on stretcherBARRACKAAcross 28: Muslim queen is brighterSUNNIERDDown 1: Call on someone to gather first of licensed materialPOPLINDDown 2: Number one from George, John and Paul's dismalGLOOMYDDown 3: Where potential ministers learn caution ultimately, dividing two houses?SEMINARIESDDown 4: Do turnSCREWDDown 5: A very empty bowl firstly filling old tin vessel on dinner tableGRAVY BOATDDown 6: Top squares belonging to Guardian supportersOURSDDown 7: One has to record sleep after climbing peak in Nepal one's scaledPANGOLINDDown 8: Loathe flower boxEXECRATEDDown 13: Bill's partner welcoming king before state ceremonyCORONATIONDDown 15: Injured boxer not on old ship — this one?CUTTYSARKDDown 16: Cut of meat, free baitSPARERIBDDown 17: One's always helping to improve, using very bad grammar?DO-GOODERDDown 19: Initially brought from river on island, bonesHUMERIDDown 20: One giving permission, I say?LETTERDDown 23: Flower planted in plot, usuallyLOTUSDDown 24: Huge beast thirty seconds away from island?ORCA