The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 8th January 2020 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 8th January 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Membranes (a thousand) in a messAMNIAAAcross 10: Music storage medium playing on air gets inside headPIANOROLLAAcross 11: After interval, judge is indifferentTHIRD-RATEAAcross 12: Produce cut when Pence intervenesSPAWNAAcross 13: 'Butterfly Month' involves performingMONARCHAAcross 15: See 29SEASONSAAcross 17: Prized example of peer pressure at the startPEARLAAcross 18: Obliterate extremely lacking African princeRASAAcross 20: African country's familiar populist politician changes sidesNIGERAAcross 22: Cast out parsley?PLAYERSAAcross 25: Jewellery calls for attention to collarEARRINGAAcross 26: No hope at all for this £1,001?GONERAAcross 27: Fish workers' means of effecting a run-throughPIKESTAFFAAcross 30: Teller gets changed to run raceRACONTEURAAcross 31: British historian? Lay off this Chinese region!MACAUDDown 1: Concluding it's foot-shapedLASTDDown 2: Paganini is to be played without 'pop' symbolsINSIGNIADDown 3: Knave takes king for jokerCARDDDown 4: Hard time getting back into Prague ground to assemble, as in former daysUPGATHERDDown 5: Features about the coreless apples?EATERSDDown 6: Tool case linking deviceBOXSPANNERDDown 7: Cup presented wrongly to a lazy personPOTATODDown 8: Dope cut with large narrow hollowGLENDDown 13: Clear the mess made by Flash, the dog?MOP UPDDown 14: Multi-wheeled transport used in this posh car enclosureROLLERRINKDDown 16: Holly cut off singular killjoySPRIGDDown 19: Order repeatedly issued by them for audio equipment?SPEAKERSDDown 21: Direction of type of desktop display system jig?GUIDANCEDDown 23: Learn? I can't — lacking time for observation and applicationARNICADDown 24: Drinker's snack?SUPPERDDown 26: Miss touring Gibraltar, having rejected RabatGIRLDDown 28: Timeless puzzle causes depressionSUMPDDown 29: A year's worth of the drink, son, inside for us — no getting drunk!FOUR