The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd January 2020 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd January 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Doctor doesn't start working out inspirational womanEUTERPEAAcross 5: Order press to cover key letter from PlatoOMICRONAAcross 10: Periodically fancy that series of old deedsACTAAAcross 11: Roosevelt settled for Republican surveying deviceTHEODOLITEAAcross 12: Cretan king's mother's contribution to neuropathologyEUROPAAAcross 13: Sit papers dealing with main godPOSEIDONAAcross 14: Wary bishop is hosting Democrat Eddy near SicilyCHARYBDISAAcross 16: Lots of deities (female) face a setbackFATESAAcross 17: English lad gathers new woodEBONYAAcross 19: Check claim involving northern disputeCHALLENGEAAcross 23: Playwright succeeded with horror storySCHILLERAAcross 24: Old statesman exercised coercion on leavingCICEROAAcross 26: Star characters in Disney filmWHITE DWARFAAcross 27: Circus figure's painful backEROSAAcross 28: Ill-fated lover's articles, two of them foreignLEANDERAAcross 29: One who likes to scorn club firstIRONISTDDown 2: Rustic forbidden to appear in a French churchUNCOUTHDDown 3: A long time to museERATODDown 4: Favourite city medic's future wool supplierPETLAMBDDown 6: Coach amused stinging swimmer, one of 21MEDUSADDown 7: Grow crop, last of rye bordering vital groundCULTIVATEDDown 8: Open University book inspires college sequelOUTCOMEDDown 9: High priest of soul maybe told about dancingTERPSICHOREANDDown 15: Film dog in colour, one interrupting serviceRINTINTINDDown 18: Barman tours clubs with a European bunch of boozersBACCHAEDDown 20: Cryptic clue about providing radical Morning StarLUCIFERDDown 21: Repulsive women try to cuddle up, hugging RomeoGORGONSDDown 22: Promise place on FringePLEDGEDDown 25: Theban king about to rip off trousersCREON