The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th December 2019 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th December 2019. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Predict yacht can become a form of psychotherapyPROPHESYAAcross 5: Cordial hospital not in the frameCASSISAAcross 9: Weapon religious group deployed round a water sourceCATAPULTAAcross 10: Items finish in ovenAGENDAAAcross 12: Curious opposites are back-to-backNOSEYAAcross 13: As tailor, may be? That's about rightSARTORIALAAcross 14: 'Latch heartless Doctor Faust', wrote von Goethe, bitter at the endDOORFASTENERAAcross 18: Haughty Louis IV moving forward — chasing fancy cup, sire?SUPERCILIOUSAAcross 21: Tasty offshoot in bookTOOTHSOMEAAcross 23: Hungary's borders accessibleHANDYAAcross 24: Cultural Revolution's end, in principleETHNICAAcross 25: Disappear, having heard comic 'encore'BENOMOREAAcross 26: Tries to be outrageously sassy after early startESSAYSAAcross 27: Come together with capacity to contain revolutionary chaosASSEMBLEDDown 1: Champion among nationalists turned nutsPECANSDDown 2: Dense fog — Central tube station first to get disruptedOBTUSEDDown 3: Delighted with the Guardian's stated time for an economy roundHAPPY HOURDDown 4: Only one to escape being stamped on?SOLESURVIVORDDown 6: Stalag ground is filled with hostilityAGGRODDown 7: Aware of extremely subversive and evil intentSENTIENTDDown 8: Trivial as whitebait?SMALL FRYDDown 11: Indigenous person, putting head down among tribe, starts to show superb ingenuityCREATIVENESSDDown 15: Firmness and kindness to start hand in glove after outbreakTOUGHLOVEDDown 16: We are its reincarnation, so to speakAS IT WEREDDown 17: Stop, but not to see the woman's frolics in waterSPLOSHESDDown 19: Internet mob broken upENTOMBDDown 20: Solvent sexy male, fine bottom halfXYLENEDDown 22: Treacherous, unlike JacobHAIRY