The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 26th August 2020 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 26th August 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Change colour visibly from goitre — pain throbbingREPAINTAAcross 5: Tramps given clothes — about timeTOERAGSAAcross 9: This is reality: being ruthless to make timeTRUTHAAcross 10: Composer working in orchestral movies cut lavish set piecesMORRICONEAAcross 11: Note what 10, 13 and 22 did: restored calmRECOMPOSEDAAcross 12: Boatman goes on south to get sun?STARAAcross 14: Boatman taken in, new to love and so on — about timeNONETOOSOONAAcross 18: Not really at all queer, I figure that's the same on all sidesEQUILATERALAAcross 21: Yearn for sleep? About timePANTAAcross 22: Composer of music and player of it: so damn wildFATS DOMINOAAcross 25: Part of tent peg and rod lie aroundRIDGEPOLEAAcross 26: Declare time to head offAVERTAAcross 27: Liberal, easy, not into enforcing norms toward beginnersLENIENTAAcross 28: Unruly girl, out of time: liability inside bar, BritishLADETTEDDown 1: About time, vessel determines to go backRETURNDDown 2: At no time taken in by blow to bellyPAUNCHDDown 3: Cruelly using Indian's skin over colour, chiefly, they sayINHUMANELYDDown 4: Work fulfilled? About timeTEMPODDown 5: Scourge of people between rock and hard placeTORMENTORDDown 6: Throw out — time's upEMITDDown 7: Acceptance of taking our time over choiceADOPTIONDDown 8: For poet, at no time stopping chorus of contemptSNEERINGDDown 13: Composer of old, once with movement about conflictNOEL COWARDDDown 15: Besotted with clue to stunNUTSABOUTDDown 16: Johnson returns with nothing in bungled alert — about timeTEMPORALDDown 17: Retired at fun run — lead didn't cut the oddsTURNEDINDDown 19: Terrible about time, to be frankDIRECTDDown 20: Centrally imposed overtime, holder of innumerable letters — one's jobPOSTIEDDown 23: Time to put letters in orderSPELLDDown 24: Time out of time — it's simpleMERE