The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 15th January 2018 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 15th January 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Recurrent saying in busy pubs?BOTTOMSUPAAcross 6: Oddly shunned, said piteous goodbyeADIEUAAcross 9: Suffuse disrobed limbs with beginnings of unalloyed eroticismIMBUEAAcross 10: Consummate marriage? Not so!MATCHLESSAAcross 11: Accommodation and clothing denied to French revolutionary over timePIED-A-TERREAAcross 12: Filthy place ultimately became eyesoreSTYEAAcross 14: Conveyance of gas round back of Number 10CHARIOTAAcross 15: Spooner's fake history published on the internetPODCASTAAcross 17: Port went off, in a manner of speakingANTWERPAAcross 19: Quietly handle extremely rare love potionPHILTREAAcross 20: Left-wingers in Italian towns campaigned hard and longITCHAAcross 22: Are responsible for Her Majesty meeting Blue Peter dog in privatePERPETRATEAAcross 25: Where Communists alone are elected to run neonatal facilityINCUBATORAAcross 26: Drug finally injected into bare elbowNUDGEAAcross 27: Decent sandwiches start to entice relativeNIECEAAcross 28: Depend on Jane name-dropping without ostentationAUSTERELYDDown 1: First to burst flaccid balloonBLIMPDDown 2: Present for discussion on second key food additiveTABLE SALTDDown 3: Gracious Evita reportedly turned up to embrace workersOPERATIVESDDown 4: Collage of Matisse showing least variationSAMIESTDDown 5: A supporter of minePITPROPDDown 6: Pain of brill swallowing tip of hookACHEDDown 7: Sluggish ferrets regularly found beneath homeINERTDDown 8: Draw peacekeepers' fire with high explosiveUNSHEATHEDDown 13: Maiden, with tact, ordered entreeADMITTANCEDDown 14: Alliance of nearly everybody in CongressCOALITIONDDown 16: Turn red, sat awkwardly on top with a leg on each sideASTRADDLEDDown 18: Criminal cartel headed by leader of pheasant pluckersPLECTRADDown 19: Surreptitiously photograph your American manuscriptPAPYRUSDDown 21: Memory of country singer on the radioCACHEDDown 23: Each is ruefully discontented after night beforeEVERYDDown 24: Old boyfriend said to be member of orchestraOBOE