The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 1st March 2021 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 1st March 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Crafty animal getting last of foodSHREWDAAcross 4: Optical illusion created by image moving over riverMIRAGEAAcross 9: Something used by students to study in bedCRIBAAcross 10: Silly me! Heroin taken during voyages in military vessels onceTROOPSHIPSAAcross 11: Cake that's special gone offSPONGEAAcross 12: Vocalist entertaining a Latin authorSALINGERAAcross 13: Part of year depicted in end of sonnet by old poetTRIMESTERAAcross 15: Goddess heard in place to stable horsesMEWSAAcross 16: Course provided by alternative practitioner leaving base close to OsloPATHAAcross 17: Last warning about women close to retirement getting money for the futureENDOWMENTAAcross 21: Patent obtained by a patient's first carer?APPARENTAAcross 22: Attempt to keep one pound in hatTRILBYAAcross 24: Relative taking extremely tender stable hand to a safe placeSTRONGROOMAAcross 25: Source of chef's cooking fat causing windCOILAAcross 26: Former partner playing tune in order to leave the stageEXEUNTAAcross 27: One with obsessive interest in the origin of Arabia translated KoranANORAKDDown 1: Fight about retro toolSCRAPERDDown 2: Bird runs over waste receptacleROBINDDown 3: Twins wrong to take drugs to one appearing in courtWITNESSDDown 5: Naughty child meeting a large American animalIMPALADDown 6: Articles on European Union kept by fellow returning to old seat of learningATHENAEUMDDown 7: Fast train meant primarily for Luxembourg's third head of stateEMPRESSDDown 8: Unease caused by Conservative standing in for magnificent leader in enormous countryCONSTERNATIONDDown 14: Cops tricked individual supplying class A drugMETHADONEDDown 16: Tube for liquid in mine covering domestic source of electricityPIPETTEDDown 18: Tomato spilt on new silken fabricOTTOMANDDown 19: Toff beat old club on the golf courseNIBLICKDDown 20: Former president of America consumed by misguided angerREAGANDDown 23: Experience cold during most of seasonINCUR