The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st February 2018 There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st February 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Something metallic covering behind or something 18 covering much more?CAFTANAAcross 4: Acquaintance gets sealed deal? Not rightCONTACTAAcross 9: Suit constrains part of bellyPINSTRIPEAAcross 10: Where some Brummies find home in GlastonburyASTONAAcross 11: Move furtively and quietly behind cowboy's enemy?CREEPAAcross 12: Former type of exam: English compositionPASTORALEAAcross 13: What colonist will do, having captured a foreign citySEATTLEAAcross 15: Meal with nasty smell, the thing to send backTIFFINAAcross 17: Rev in moving circle?CLERICAAcross 19: Little dog eats poet's works and causes troublePLAYSUPAAcross 22: Subsequently stifles one pet's noise, solution being foundLIMEWATERAAcross 24: Indication of freezing timeTEMPOAAcross 26: Kind of senior officer leading army corpsGENREAAcross 27: Get your butts on the ground!ORDER ARMSAAcross 28: After travelling, you finally stayed for 24 hoursTUESDAYAAcross 29: Like a rogue child invading a railwayARCHLYDDown 1: Strikes briefly undermining firm making moneyCOPECKSDDown 2: Crime, but not of one type of criminalFENCEDDown 3: Alexander the Great's regent rebelling against father?ANTIPATERDDown 4: One may shed some light, destroying secretsCRESSETDDown 5: Maoris hang around New Zealand writerNGAIODDown 6: A curate is naughty? We understand the risksACTUARIESDDown 7: Mess about with difficult puzzle, not beginningTINKERDDown 8: Extra money request when in need of a drinkTIPPLEDDown 14: In Parisian avenue, fellow would briefly danceALLEMANDEDDown 16: French brother endlessly drinking coffee is 11FLATTERERDDown 18: Like some fabric in bed, fashionableCOTTONYDDown 19: Remuneration restricts staff — it's a travestyPARODYDDown 20: Collecting financial documents, work steadily and devotedlyPIOUSLYDDown 21: Escape from land after start of fightingFLIGHTDDown 23: Exercise in part of south-east England being reportedWIELDDDown 25: See 5MARSH