The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 4th February 2020 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 4th February 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Had maiden caught in cold shower some offensive words?HATE MAILAAcross 5: Plan to get English degree after schoolSCHEMAAAcross 9: Form 1 starts to consider some well-known booksCLASSICSAAcross 10: After work, seller is to escape getting involvedOPT OUTAAcross 12: Source of inspiration in lecture, having switched sidesERATOAAcross 13: Bishop in staggering movement, hero in act of defianceREBELLIONAAcross 14: Book to excite man into talesLAMENTATIONSAAcross 18: Scot and Austrian working together in a branch of scienceASTRONAUTICSAAcross 21: Added time had arisen after injuryADAR SHENIAAcross 23: Island thus seen looking west from Roman harbourOSTIAAAcross 24: Interrupts with instruction to reduce wickednessCUTSINAAcross 25: Mars — a visit (ET) to be arranged?VITIATESAAcross 26: City's place of vice, always hiding its faceDENVERAAcross 27: Physicist showing anxiety with short memoryANGSTROMDDown 1: Prime minister on television, one seeking to steal informationHACKERDDown 2: Emperor's function to keep rule in IndiaTRAJANDDown 3: Sugar upset tot before Virginia tucked into fish and duckMUSCOVADODDown 4: Put away in vehicle, packed in box: drug smuggled inINCARCERATEDDDown 6: Black stuff with core of soft or hard materialCOPALDDown 7: Them old books? I study something on the computer!EMOTICONDDown 8: A bit like part of Birmingham, creating surprise?ASTONISHDDown 11: Treat bionics unconventionally as medical specialistOBSTETRICIANDDown 15: Note penned by investigators for geological studyTECTONICSDDown 16: Weapon housed in rotten stableBALANCEDDDown 17: Distress of nurse once, characteristic concealedSTRAITENDDown 19: Country with rupee coinSTATERDDown 20: Carriage provided when Dane, maybe, is given honourHANSOMDDown 22: Criticise bargain with Europe, finallySNIPE