The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 8th January 2018 There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 8th January 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Animal in a shopping centre turned roundLLAMAAAcross 10: Without preparation, extreme confusion surrounds Post OfficeEX TEMPOREAAcross 10: Without preparation, extreme confusion surrounds Post OfficeEXTEMPOREAAcross 11: Protection used before the French strike fundamentalist part of AmericaBIBLE BELTAAcross 12: Relative enters sleepy land with person of no fixed abodeNOMADAAcross 13: Polish punishments extremely severe!FINESSEAAcross 15: Made box containing Europe's last old pennyCREATEDAAcross 17: Loosely state preferenceTASTEAAcross 18: Returned rotten fishDABAAcross 20: Area of swamp drained by expertSPACEAAcross 22: Beans, maybe, grown from sticky stuff found in sedimentLEGUMESAAcross 25: Spouse in hospital visited by American musiciansHUSBANDAAcross 26: Spot tail of largish New World mammalSLOTHAAcross 27: "Satisfactory" secondary school getting Ofsted's fifth X at beginning of termCOMPETENTAAcross 30: Popular report's shocking treatment for great thinkerINTELLECTAAcross 31: Celebrity holding middle of musical instrumentSITARDDown 1: Float up and down round large shapeless massBLOBDDown 2: A new boss upset surgeonSAWBONESDDown 3: Listened to chief with long hairMANEDDown 4: Clergyman is always upset by "RIP"REVERENDDDown 5: Still using second strategy, not ConservativeSTATICDDown 6: Scribe has last word about a new university attended by relativeAMANUENSISDDown 7: In favour of rug designFORMATDDown 8: Bow out of second-rate finaleBENDDDown 13: Lard deal (with 50% off) is disastrousFATALDDown 14: Spanish and English troops heard cry by very large swimmerSPERM WHALEDDown 16: First part of Dan Dare broadcast causing terrorDREADDDown 19: Huge creature found in shell of bizarre male insect?BEHEMOTHDDown 21: A tipsy mate restricting Rex to Italian liqueurAMARETTODDown 23: Animals eating farmer's last cereal productGROATSDDown 24: Private clubs hidden in trees, oddlySECRETDDown 26: Lose balance, upsetting lagerSLIPDDown 28: Lexicographer seeking to preserve minority languageERSEDDown 29: Black stuff found on top of Turkish dessertTART