The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th June 2020 There are 14 across clues and 10 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th June 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Leading trumpeter and percussionist missed out — appreciate playing as they wishedAPIACEREAAcross 9: Studio presenter's tieANCHORAAcross 10: Ship stores fish in jarsSHAKESAAcross 11: In row D?END-TO-ENDAAcross 12: In days gone by, I pocketed commissionAGIOAAcross 13: Hating working girls that take a turn at the tablesLAZYSUSANSAAcross 15: Game flirt getting run inCROQUETAAcross 16: Flammable liquid ruined hat after hot vessel tipped overNAPHTHAAAcross 18: Leave chaps on time in area of FranceDEPARTMENTAAcross 19: Players moaned audiblySIDEAAcross 20: Called ’owzat but was charmingAPPEALEDAAcross 22: Minute insects on the outside of a trio of vesselsTHRIPSAAcross 23: Is meagre with use of colour on boardSTINTSAAcross 24: No good wheedling about capitalNEW DELHIDDown 1: Where Maud's lover could have misled her?UPTHEGARDENPATHDDown 2: Exasperated compiler's utterance: 'Start again!'BACKTOSQUAREONEDDown 3: Most horrible thoroughfare falls within copper's territoryBEASTLIESTDDown 4: Successor to Ximenes got up and embraced one little girl or another from CornwallDEMELZADDown 5: Eisteddfod winner, dull, turned upBARDDDown 6: Arranged sestet with orchestra on the other sideACROSSTHESTREETDDown 7: Blue and sorrowful, below the surfaceDOWNINTHEDEPTHSDDown 14: Sea air won't upset poor communitySHANTYTOWNDDown 17: Fearing degree being dropped at universityREADINGDDown 21: Desire subtle changes be removed?LUST