The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 6th December 2019 There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 6th December 2019. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Pudding where we'd expect to see tea, it's saidAFTERSAAcross 5: What some solicitors do on hearing a chargeACCOSTAAcross 8: Lady from Lisbon hears no evilSENHORAAAcross 9: Most equable ladies regularly appearing in filmMILDESTAAcross 11: Putting self-portrait on display, bashfullyHANGINGONESHEADAAcross 12: Skip university in pursuit of loveOMITAAcross 13: Patriots withdrawing singular honour for Hollywood legend?STAN LAURELAAcross 17: French madame and monsieur have words before ceremonyMARGUERITEAAcross 18: Boat from south Jersey or Guernsey?SCOWAAcross 20: Gather where beaver's seen and weather the stormTAKE IT ON THE CHINAAcross 23: Nurses treated current stabbing early in the daySUNRISEAAcross 24: Sailor looking fatigued aboard, running back and forthONWARDSAAcross 25: Playwright once releasing book to be grabbed by males ready for casting?MOLTENAAcross 26: Judge from Spain comes across the wrong wayESTEEMDDown 2: One furnishes capital home with more elaborate fencingFINANCIERDDown 3: Allude to trapping beast coming up from foreign partsEXOTICDDown 4: Take out child, heading off after school on vacationSLAUGHTERDDown 5: Democrat moving in to make changes for promotersADMENDDown 6: Merry monarch's order for salad?COLESLAWDDown 7: Countryman to consider keeping wife and daughter apartSWEDEDDown 8: Young peers happily sharing a mistress?SCHOOLMATESDDown 10: Result of making mini bats for children's game?TIDDLYWINKSDDown 14: Uneasy and unready to receive, getting outNOTATHOMEDDown 15: Careers madly round house for something to put shirt on?RACE HORSEDDown 15: Careers madly round house for something to put shirt on?RACEHORSEDDown 16: Breed of dog, one lean aggressive typePUGILISTDDown 19: Bird going up rubbish heap gets very little to eatPEEWITDDown 21: Japanese art, complete with fine raised frameKENDODDown 22: Eastern firm set up by an Indian, perhapsOCEAN