The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 19th February 2020 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 19th February 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Strongly anger unionists, being enthusiasticFIREDUPAAcross 5: Not quite have time to cover puzzles, essentially reversing instructionMITZVAHAAcross 9: See 6DUCTSAAcross 10: Exceptional grant and a fourth armed man?DARTAGNANAAcross 11: Humanitarian organisation's driver possibly going round in circlesROTARY CLUBAAcross 12: Fortitude may be needed in readiness for real snow and iceTRUEAAcross 14: Is Monet misrepresented in tiny but fundamental matter?QUESTION MARKAAcross 18: Merrymaking composer pens the ultimate in music, rejecting secure articlesBACCHANALIANAAcross 21: Redeem myself, partly to get an awardEMMYAAcross 22: Consider purposeful shop reprimandDELIBERATEAAcross 25: Desolate nature's in evolutionSATURNINEAAcross 26: Bothered bit by bit, as they sayFAZEDAAcross 27: Parker cooked hot fish outsideDOROTHYAAcross 28: About marriage, when it turns belligerentMARTIALDDown 1: Iron rod upon a hatFEDORADDown 2: Brief script, yet evenly readRECITEDDown 3: First in cold blast to become agitatedDISTRAUGHTDDown 4: What could make Cupid easily embarrassedPUDICDDown 5: In a kind of miracle, they say you are fickleMERCURIALDDown 6: One left rusticated arrangement of flowers in griefTEARDDown 7: May be even true of sexVENEREALDDown 8: Write down curse for Spooner's nagsHENPECKSDDown 13: Unattended vehicle's broken into in Paris: a damaged FordUNCARED-FORDDown 15: From the time of Rome, it took years to start with honestySINCERITYDDown 16: Snob houses closed, only half occupiedOBSESSEDDDown 17: Weapon of racism (lost without it)SCIMITARDDown 19: Long live the Emperor of Zanzibar, unclothed and dancingBANZAIDDown 20: Part of Venezuela due for uprising, like most of Europe onceFEUDALDDown 23: Brought up breakfast cereal, bypassing the beginning of stomach and small intestineILEUMDDown 24: See 12GRIT