The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 12th August 2020 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 12th August 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Went astray, shortly going round town in County ClareENNISAAcross 4: Report of Conservative party leader no longer thrivingBLOOMINGAAcross 8: Backward-looking philosophy to suit minister being nastyRESTITUTIONISMAAcross 10: Failed to be ready for new phase of agriculture?PLOUGHEDAAcross 11: Complete home: perhaps dab on the outsideFINISHAAcross 12: Unjustifiably claimed an idiot's wrong — answers finally will get stuck inSOI-DISANTAAcross 15: Like that woman Jane who went out with Paul?ASHERAAcross 17: International organisation in illustration of old cityPUNICAAcross 18: Little woman's surprisingly stoical — that blood pressure's at the lower endDIASTOLICAAcross 19: Engineers left account of progress made?REPORTAAcross 21: Possibly the bed's a place of healingBETHESDAAAcross 24: Ringers with excellent musical techniqueDOUBLE STOPPINGAAcross 25: Killer of insects — one by mechanical process getting any numberROTENONEAAcross 26: Bit about your setter being like a pussycat?TAMEDDDown 1: Fantastic support arose for what Brexiters will now deny usEUROPASSPORTDDown 2: Rate no sin bad, being a hereticNESTORIANDDown 3: Smart singerSTINGDDown 4: Street poet outside old university getting money from BulgariaBOULEVARDDDown 5: Nothing was gripping in newspaper noticeOBITDDown 6: Tramp? Patch up one with affected pietyMENDICANTDDown 7: Child of immigrant couple that is beginning to settle in after upheaval?NISEIDDown 9: Maybe Thor's not given enough bangs for his bucks?SHORTCHANGEDDDown 13: Suffer with a bitter feeling, not one that will afflict you for everINCURABLEDDown 14: Note a Guardian columnist, one boiling up inside?TEAKETTLEDDown 16: What Scot does in street — refuses to budgeHOLDSFIRMDDown 20: Something needed for 1 down recently taken in post office?PHOTODDown 22: Leave house and topple overHOPITDDown 23: Rex and Brian in a gambling centreRENO