The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 12th March 2018 There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 12th March 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: What contentious folk often get for seconds?BACKSUPAAcross 5: Miserly investment in worthy sculpture, for instanceFINE ARTAAcross 9: Is rubbish put back in trunks?TORSIAAcross 10: Get dirty, menacing look after partyDISCOLOURAAcross 11: "Almost clean" Brexit arranged, that can be deliveredEXTRICABLEAAcross 12: Painter's energy always returnsGOYAAAcross 14: Wild animal with truer colourULTRAMARINEAAcross 18: Rein in twins, those running the enterpriseRINGLEADERSAAcross 21: What Jersey did, presumably, banning English humourMOODAAcross 22: Whistleblower runs, busy and able to change directionREFRACTIVEAAcross 25: Grouse when main road's used the wrong way — playing ball!COMPLIANTAAcross 26: Audacious League of Nations enterprise originally unsupportedALONEAAcross 27: Here at sea might one see son strip off?SUN DECKAAcross 27: Here at sea might one see son strip off?SUNDECKAAcross 28: Bent journalist beyond suspicionHUNCHEDDDown 1: British state's contribution to continental breakfast?BUTTERDDown 2: Minister's canny, calling in the artilleryCURATEDDown 3: Music from Southern religious ceremonies?SPIRITUALSDDown 4: Here we go for relief — relief coming up in stagesPODIADDown 5: Fire's fluid seal brokenFUSILLADEDDown 6: Gas, once found, regularly dischargedNEONDDown 7: A game soldier first to produce a written defenceAPOLOGIADDown 8: Cow with last of clover to chew coming in laterTHREATENDDown 13: Any child is mad giving pound for a necklaceDAISY-CHAINDDown 15: Characteristic craft revolutionised nameless countryTRADEMARKDDown 16: Charming qualities masking Nutmeg's ugly looksGRIMACESDDown 17: In Montmartre, a joint seldom foundUNCOMMONDDown 19: Put paid to king, moving bishop not pawnKIBOSHDDown 20: Top husband in contest getting promotionBEHEADDDown 23: Punster's last to cut gagRETCHDDown 24: This is oddly colouredCLUE