The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 3rd March 2021 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd March 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Papers can't lie? Wrong, just the sameIDENTICALAAcross 10: Is Puck good? Ring a friendAMIGOAAcross 11: Some 'iffy' remedies returned? On the surface, that's roughEMERYAAcross 12: Upset our shy girl right away, as a rascal mightROGUISHLYAAcross 13: Saw son cut down to 1, for easier assimilationSPOTTEDAAcross 14: Another married loverADMIRERAAcross 17: Game is second sale item not wonLOTTOAAcross 19: Department investigating contracted detective's retirementCIDAAcross 20: Lots of actors originally starred in a musicalCASTSAAcross 21: Crack marksman departed with detectiveDEADEYEAAcross 22: Name saint or pope? Brother no longer canFRANCISAAcross 24: Artist back in stock, in refined Colorado townKIT CARSONAAcross 26: Creamy-white, like a Welshman?IVORYAAcross 28: Stoned female content to down 10 beersNIOBEAAcross 29: Playing darts, lady is mean and wicked!DASTARDLYDDown 1: See 24SIZEDDown 2: Straight there, after travelling roundHETERODDown 3: Unadventurous guy? Then the woman stripped offSTAY-AT-HOMEDDown 4: Small-minded? Afraid so!SCAREDDDown 5: Conservatives behind the Times newspaper, not the ScotsmanOLD GUARDDDown 6: Stood next to current queenRANIDDown 7: Well-off area: right district selected originally for a Keith or Gordon?RICHARDSDDown 8: Doctor X, vegan animal rights activistMOBYDDown 13: Humming after crossword essentially well-constructedSOLIDDDown 15: Flute? Part played is routineMECHANICALDDown 16: After tip-off, gets hold of fruitRASPSDDown 18: Farm vehicle turned up, worked into drawingTRACTIONDDown 19: Unfaithful lover is 4 after strayingCRESSIDADDown 22: Death of European with no middle nameFINISHDDown 23: Lots of people, 8 being the 25th of them?CROWDSDDown 24: Long for the longer sleepers perhaps half of LNER and one third of LMS usedKINGDDown 25: Attention-seeking expression in article by the EdgeAHEMDDown 27: More than one solver yet to finish? Child's play, perhaps, using thisYO-YO