The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th February 2021 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th February 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Call from the US electorate?NO-TRUMPAAcross 5: Mysterious flash enveloping trailerSHADOWYAAcross 10: Adonis is bossSTUDAAcross 11: Retro plain squares under the table, perhaps?ON ALL FOURSAAcross 12: God placing 6 and Egyptian equivalent back-to-back behind youURANUSAAcross 13: More difficult check reviewed on godTHORNIERAAcross 14: Female god performsDOESATURNAAcross 16: Worshipper for whom church in Dudley providing sanctuaryHINDUAAcross 17: Half-Vulcan box contains head of PrometheusSPOCKAAcross 19: Hard work initially, easier otherwise to maintain orderWEARISOMEAAcross 23: Wonderful goddess hiding in woodFIVESTARAAcross 24: Goddess concealing second of beauty spotsVENUESAAcross 26: Chaotic form disowned, happy to come firstUPSIDE-DOWNAAcross 27: Reach god by bus, finallySPANAAcross 28: 'We have arrived', daughter announcedUSHEREDAAcross 29: Most immediate gain overwhelming godNEARESTDDown 2: North American province, not a different South American cityONTARIODDown 3: Artist's country escaping Roman godRODINDDown 4: When heavenly body drops idle godMOONSETDDown 6: God dressing priest in short stockingsHELIOSDDown 7: Island originally home to climbing marsupial — one of these is as dead as a dodo?DOORNAILSDDown 8: Mass inspiring god, Mars' device?WARHEADDDown 9: Where Morpheus might live to dream, more bunks emptied outMASTER BEDROOMDDown 15: Close game receives outstanding support, finallySECRETIVEDDown 18: God lifting couple into drinkPRIAPUSDDown 20: Nemesis rising, for example, over my dead bodyREVENGEDDown 21: Heaven-bound American uncle entertaining European women inspired by DionysusMAENADSDDown 22: Goddess putting second and third of 21 in order?ATHENEDDown 25: I won't ever remove lid from inverted can!NOSIR