The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st August 2019 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st August 2019. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Dating an old tennis champion's coolCOURTSHIPAAcross 6: Neighbour displaying a 26 after sun comes outABUTAAcross 10: Accommodate going back and forthPUT-UPAAcross 11: Roman official for and against Muslim ruler having no functionPROCONSULAAcross 12: Potentially the cause of most damage inside a restaurantDEARESTAAcross 13: White male husband, regularly drunkALBUMENAAcross 14: 'X' on map might show whereabouts of this diabolical theatre's curseTREASURE CHESTAAcross 17: Live with a friend: British female one's put up at the seasideBEACHUMBRELLAAAcross 21: Around one hour in Paris? Sadly, it could fly byAIR-SHIPAAcross 21: Around one hour in Paris? Sadly, it could fly byAIRSHIPAAcross 22: Special quality that's needed by female member of castXFACTORAAcross 24: One holding 26 in small room shows some intellectual capabilityBRAIN CELLAAcross 25: Cut thread ... half of which lost by hesitating?THRUMAAcross 26: Journalist thrown by boy band not workingBUSTAAcross 27: Withdraw from sun, with its required effect now lost on 26, largelySTAND-DOWNAAcross 27: Withdraw from sun, with its required effect now lost on 26, largelySTANDDOWNDDown 1: See way out of folly that's greedCUPIDITYDDown 2: You sell feminist underwear, bottoms only, leading to end of bra? That's radicalULTRADDown 3: An obsession, perhaps, with something found on the French Riviera?TOPLESSBATHINGDDown 4: Like some trousers to appear hot on high priestHIPSTERDDown 5: Experts backing spies' routinePROSAICDDown 7: A meal best canned in tin, sayBASE METALDDown 8: Gift books coming under 'Fiction'TALENTDDown 9: Was unsure about European wearing the French underwear as outer garments sometimesDOUBLE-BREASTEDDDown 15: Show up with energy Mars Bars producedEMBARRASSDDown 16: Extremely large number upset by a new dealer in Cheddar?DAIRYMANDDown 18: Unlucky, like chap that's caught shortHAPLESSDDown 19: Jaw about everyone before nine in the morningMAXILLADDown 20: Bad smell around a wee stunted treeBAOBABDDown 23: Roots supply trunkTORSO