The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 16th October 2020 There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 16th October 2020. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Charlotte races about in this?CHELSEAAAcross 5: See 1TRACTORAAcross 9: Copy of Two Thousand and One, with music finaleMIMICAAcross 10: Runs out of air? Oh dear!DIARRHOEAAAcross 11: Supports bar locksBUTTRESSESAAcross 12: Tie the knot after most excellent love is givenBESTAAcross 14: Get some sleep before family calls for tablewareNAPKINRINGSAAcross 18: See 3GLORIAMUNDIAAcross 21: See 12OWEDAAcross 22: Each letter is liberalPERMISSIVEAAcross 25: An underground place of humiliationABASEMENTAAcross 26: See 24LUNARAAcross 27: 19 artist's work to fade out ultimately, such a recipe for disasterTHEKISSAAcross 28: See 27OFDEATHDDown 1: Meet something funny with B FordCOME BYDDown 2: NY Times singularly spreading hatredENMITYDDown 3: Celebrity passes what sounds like ambulance during a limo tripSICTRANSITDDown 4: Range in the Arabian desertANDESDDown 5: In train wreck, old Sophocles?TRAGEDIANDDown 6: Wrong to be suspicious with a promotionAWRYDDown 7: Pony went bust worth not much moneyTWOPENNYDDown 8: Drive to evaluate Spooner's lily pad?ROAD TESTDDown 13: Are you, as they say, taken in by strong Arab commander leaving home course?FRUIT SALADDDown 15: Starts to put record straight about some current spoilersPAMPERERSDDown 16: Endlessly going off on tirade is not cleverIGNORANTDDown 17: Website tribute about the centre of AleppoHOME PAGEDDown 17: Website tribute about the centre of AleppoHOMEPAGEDDown 19: Life in Paris before Napoleon evacuated a capital cityVIENNADDown 20: Scarcity put right inside 28DEARTHDDown 23: 'Head off, bottom up' as a sloganMOTTODDown 24: Surgeon's first working rule: man, I like the aortic valve!SEMI