The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 4th February 2022 There are 14 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th February 2022. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Work for printer — me?TYPESETTINGAAcross 9: Having variations in tune qualityUNEQUALAAcross 10: Tries on pants off the shelf?IN STOREAAcross 11: 1-1: only in second half is eleven beaten badlyANEVENBETAAcross 12: Free hit to legLET GOAAcross 13: Initiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria's Xmas ClubAJAXAAcross 14: Remember what, until her rude awakening, Goldilocks didn't have?BEAR IN MINDAAcross 16: Duke, licensed to fly, dropsDOWNSWINGSAAcross 19: Pressure applied to a US felonPERPAAcross 20: One settling on bark after windPAYERAAcross 21: Mark's boy holding onto old record company passSEMICOLONAAcross 23: As if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic!CROATIAAAcross 24: Misleading, as stationary ship may be?LYINGTOAAcross 25: Dressing job performed in theatre smashes European finalsELASTOPLASTDDown 1: Why we'll never please everybody who neatly erases goofs?THERESALWAYSONEDDown 2: Erstwhile plum dufferPRUNEDDown 3: Is this clue like an Alka-Seltzer?SOLUBLEDDown 4: Checker, perhaps, who won't be sticking at twenty-oneTWISTERDDown 5: Where each August competitive sailors may be offensiveINSOLENTDDown 6: Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousnessGOOUTLIKEALIGHTDDown 7: Little girl's make-up case guards PIN, enigmaticallySUGARANDSPICEDDown 8: View from another wing, beneath the lower partSECONDOPINIONDDown 15: Empress turned up when crossTSARITSADDown 17: Tick brown cans you need to recycleINSTANTDDown 18: Girl's top, simply ghastly part of uniformGYMSLIPDDown 22: Pop's broken tea serviceCHINA