The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 2nd September 2020 There are 14 across clues and 10 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 2nd September 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Small show of joy perhaps, after rent reductionTEARDROPAAcross 9: No 1 from Adele, originally by QueenLEADERAAcross 10: Strokes, the first of which produces 8sSWEEPSAAcross 11: Can't foul in the box, one might be feelingTENTACLEAAcross 12: A little child is half-price fareDISHAAcross 13: Football team's about to struggle with questions after final whistle?INTERVIEWSAAcross 15: Duel? Pot shot happened just before!LEDUPTOAAcross 16: Best work is before setter's filled stomachOPTIMUMAAcross 18: Tabloid outing 9? Pretty inappropriateUNBECOMINGAAcross 19: Trek round with openers from Middlesex, promptly after close of playYOMPAAcross 20: Got into bed with a novelOBTAINEDAAcross 22: Those drying Sierra winds?AIRERSAAcross 23: 'Aha!', said solver, 'A stinker!'EUREKAAAcross 24: Delicate six-footer in league champion sideLACEWINGDDown 1: Standard of wine drunk with journalist, eating a new sort of cheeseREDWHITEANDBLUEDDown 2: Sees enough and rages about cause of climate change?GREENHOUSEGASESDDown 3: Experts to include one into chopped hamPROSCIUTTODDown 4: Flying past in pick-up truck, towards Albany from New York?UPSTATEDDown 5: Scottish group just started live set in prisonCLANDDown 6: Limit on skill shown by ex-PM as a gardenerCAPABILITYBROWNDDown 7: Chicken sandwich, US style? That'll get one animatedYELLOWSUBMARINEDDown 14: Bad pun initially causes extreme anger or disgustREPUGNANCEDDown 17: Complaint, as Charlie Parker hurriedly withdrew broadcastBIRDFLUDDown 21: Shipbuilder dropping into Bath regularlyNOAH