The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 16th March 2022 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 16th March 2022. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: In hospital with curtain round after a bad fallAVALANCHEAAcross 6: Turn computers into a dishonest businessSCAMAAcross 10: Poet mislaying his third watchVIGILAAcross 11: Type of company stockREPERTORYAAcross 12: Let cash fall out of bagSATCHELAAcross 13: Anyone at first, latest in long sequence sick in crowded tenementANTHILLAAcross 14: Left TV programme, missing the forecast of good weatherREDSKYATNIGHTAAcross 17: Following plant surveys, ordered this one?VENUS'S FLYTRAPAAcross 21: Agreed to return after short dipCURTSEYAAcross 22: One in flight of birds finally falling to rookAVIATORAAcross 24: Examiner buttons lip for a termTRIMESTERAAcross 25: Skewer doll on back of truck for returnKEBABAAcross 26: Superior-sounding greetingHIYAAAcross 27: Sees great possibility in Roman exploitsRES GESTAEDDown 1: Warning notice: face cover finally mandatoryADVISORYDDown 2: Goes to the gallows, not the first time, in dreadANGSTDDown 3: The body of male college members useless with scrambled eggALLTHEKINGSMENDDown 4: Circular band nearly full of golden petalsCOROLLADDown 5: Resolve to be complicated now?EXPLAINDDown 7: Boy in church worried his rectorCHORISTERDDown 8: Prime minister's surreptitious bugMAYFLYDDown 9: Pop wants gradually to remove Thatcher at the beginning, that prickly characterMRSTIGGYWINKLEDDown 15: To extend my range as Duke, I write poetryDIVERSIFYDDown 16: Falstaff, say, with bulge not even ready for surgeryOPERABLEDDown 18: Unscrupulous type locked in cells, hystericalSHYSTERDDown 19: Old cabs provided reversed over a wide areaFIACRESDDown 20: Taps closed, gas turned up for warming drinkSCOTCHDDown 23: Apocryphal story very much shortenedTOBIT