The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd September 2021 There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd September 2021. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Hopeful hellfire ultimately denied in Eve's reluctance to partake of forbidden fruit?APPLICANTAAcross 10: Top off, cookOUTDOAAcross 11: Child, one accommodated in large shedBAIRNAAcross 12: 6's vessel on streamSTEINBECKAAcross 13: Curious tree was topSWEATERAAcross 14: Cast of Cats, say?ANAGRAMAAcross 17: Characters regularly seen in small-town shopSALONAAcross 19: Cut in refinement, get work by 14 of more than one 6?THEAAcross 20: Lexicographical publication, old, old manuscriptCODEXAAcross 21: 6's blunder, one line backLE CARREAAcross 22: 6's brief smile, fakeGRISHAMAAcross 24: Local worker, margin squeezed in tradeBARTENDERAAcross 26: Almost having taken head off, order dismissalEARLYAAcross 28: See 8TITLEAAcross 29: See 19WASTELANDDDown 1: Straight punch catching back of Fulham supporterJAMBDDown 2: 6's atop wall?UPDIKEDDown 3: Resident in Mississippi, a not unerringly trained listenerPIANO TUNERDDown 4: State goes out with a dictatorCAESARDDown 5: Leg across always in cramped quartersSTEERAGEDDown 6: Name Welsh artist and English pop starJOHNDDown 7: Ill-prepared monarch sheltered, having lost crown at seaETHELREDDDown 8: It, for example, requires change of kit in port on the MerseyBOOKDDown 13: Rough stuff, one caught by filly that's rolled overSISALDDown 15: Mathematician who screwed up?ARCHIMEDESDDown 16: Saw long coat, metreMAXIMDDown 18: Wound cord before judgeLACERATEDDown 19: Drink inferior to sea water reportedly limitedTIEDDOWNDDown 22: Loud, one needing quiet after kid turned upGARISHDDown 23: A zip's caught — whoopee!HURRAYDDown 24: See 26BATHDDown 25: Blade's ego?EPEEDDown 27: Joy to behold finally, a grandmasterYODA