The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th March 2018 There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th March 2018. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Cut, but not polished, when suggested?ROUGHHEWNAAcross 10: English invading prosperous foreign stateREICHAAcross 11: 10 caught during escape don't countEXCLUDEAAcross 12: Keels over, having striven in conflictINVERTSAAcross 13: Remarkably old theologian disheartened laityODDLYAAcross 14: Brave comic ultimately loses interest in scriptWITHSTANDAAcross 16: Recondite manoeuvres protecting two hospital departments in secure housingDETENTION CENTREAAcross 19: What's put out for famous moggy, perhaps on Yorks coast?RED-CARPETAAcross 21: Bond's partner formerly occupying Students' UnionNEXUSAAcross 22: Person striving to keep motorways in better conditionTRIMMERAAcross 23: Husband's lacking in flair — a cure-all's offeredPANACEAAAcross 24: Manufacturer of cars, many with posh interiorLOTUSAAcross 25: Tsar's necessary after turn of century and easily dealt withNOTROUBLEDDown 1: Case supporting idle property ownerFREEHOLDERDDown 2: White rebel is obliged to guardsMUSCADETDDown 3: It's said capacious hanky's needed, if you're like thisRHEUMYDDown 4: Had a life before wife turned upWEREDDown 5: Confused detective hampered by gut reactionINDISTINCTDDown 6: Cleric appearing on donkey in church causes deep divisionCREVASSEDDown 7: I stray off course in South American mountainsSIERRADDown 8: So close, having swopped endsTHUSDDown 14: After fancy exercises, band's sobbing quietlyWHIMPERINGDDown 15: Confirmed nickname for Edward, the ocean sailor?DEEP-SEATEDDDown 17: Complex seminars not quite hitting the markNEAR MISSDDown 18: Charge imposed on a variety of basic commercial vehiclesTAXICABSDDown 20: Particular Democrat isn't first to yieldDAINTYDDown 21: Sergeant, say, getting up one day full of himself?NONCOMDDown 22: Son's leaving even now to work in fieldTILLDDown 23: Course of action at entering pub?PATH