The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 31st March 2021 There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 31st March 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Writing that could make me propose — a contradiction in terms?PROSE POEMAAcross 10: Thomas, poet and Nobel Prize winnerDYLANAAcross 11: Is inclined to delete nothing from pieces of poetryCANTSAAcross 12: Wildly romanced, clutching English or Italian love storiesDECAMERONAAcross 13: Nasty European immersed in ten gallons, perhapsHATEFULAAcross 14: Washed over front of crowd gathered togetherBATCHEDAAcross 17: Indulge, oddly, poetaster's ending — his work's limitedIDLERAAcross 19: Dedicated lyric to listeners that's outstandingODEAAcross 20: Untrained old volunteers retreating in conflictATWARAAcross 21: Reveals our country's introducing new degreesUNMASKSAAcross 22: Harsh about replacing author's final pieceAUSTEREAAcross 24: Genuine article installed by company that signals dangerFIRE ALARMAAcross 26: Cut that 3, when split and reassembledSEVERAAcross 28: Patriarch named in a chapter in part of OTJACOBAAcross 29: Rhyming slang, say, is included by US author, maleLONDONISMDDown 1: Starts off every poem in collection in style of HomerEPICDDown 2: Boy with fishing gear, eg lines set on Westminster BridgeSONNETDDown 3: Poetic structures in novel serve in support of textVERSEFORMSDDown 4: French composition from Byron — delightfulRONDELDDown 5: Is the speaker on type of TV friendly?AMICABLEDDown 6: Source of first introduction that rhymes?ADAMDDown 7: Humorous bio priest cut and cutCLERIHEWDDown 8: Ascribed source of many rhymes before longANONDDown 8: Ascribed source of many rhymes before longANON.DDown 13: It's found among 3, with fixed syllabic structure, similar to thisHAIKUDDown 15: Radio station's broadcast about reading — and writing?TRANSISTORDDown 16: Elegy, say, cleared upDIRGEDDown 18: Fruit put on heap — one concerned next clue but oneLIMERICKDDown 19: Nameless constable demolished barrierOBSTACLEDDown 22: Old man disturbed in treeALMONDDDown 23: One upset about verse is completing stanzasENVOISDDown 24: Lots of islands having female dotty characters?FIJIDDown 25: Quartet's initial scheme for 2, perhapsABBADDown 27: Frost's old-fashioned poemRIME