The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th January 2018 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th January 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Check those printing religious tracts?REPRESSAAcross 5: Beaten revolutionary featured in flyerBIRCHEDAAcross 9: How sugar can be used, if at all?FORTOFFEEAAcross 10: Chest protected by father's waterproofPARKAAAcross 11: Brought books back on approvalTOOKAAcross 12: Perseveres and catches a little birdSTICKSATITAAcross 14: Gulf national sounding full of coldQATARIAAcross 15: Brexiteers asking for this defeat on polling dayOUTVOTEAAcross 16: Bear from America digging into soilSUSTAINAAcross 18: Most utter support after turning upPURESTAAcross 20: Bloke gets the way things are done in small part of CornwallBODMINMOORAAcross 21: See 3CROPAAcross 24: Each individually at an advantageAHEADAAcross 25: Sum up chapter cut from historic volume one's pennedEPITOMISEAAcross 26: Speeds up in speech, as ten strikesHASTENSAAcross 27: Oriental crane ultimately like seabirdEASTERNDDown 1: Update troops before attackREFITDDown 2: An account traveller set, up providing support for climbersPERGOLADDown 3: Liberal prone to adopting Conservative hairstyleETONDDown 4: Crowd security?SAFETYINNUMBERSDDown 5: Case based on word of chap, or chaps, before I'm involvedBREACH OF PROMISEDDown 6: Treasury theatre put on old romance with current investmentREPOSITORYDDown 7: His friend has Hamlet's first speech abridgedHORATIODDown 8: Doctor gets a payment covering time he has to serve in USDRAFTEEDDown 13: Tense liar added ridiculous nonsenseTARADIDDLEDDown 16: Rebellious graduates wash thoroughly one day a weekSABBATHDDown 17: Injured Danes coming aboard in gloomSADNESSDDown 19: Abject drunk lives without ever losing heartSERVILEDDown 22: What diver may do with bill, on cutting poundPREENDDown 23: Employment from IT entrepreneur?JOBS