The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 28th April 2022 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 28th April 2022. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Cooked last of three dishes perhaps lacking third of meat?SHEPHERDSPIESAAcross 10: Little-known degree held by Guardian's head of entertainmentOBSCUREAAcross 11: Snappier person coming overCROSSERAAcross 12: Call up first wife, having received go-aheadEVOKEAAcross 13: Left in pieces after contestant finally made a mistakeTRIPPEDUPAAcross 14: Smarten up pages around marginPRIMPAAcross 16: Thought to have left out light mealREFECTIONAAcross 18: NB regular treatment needed for part of armGUN BARRELAAcross 19: Delayed training in troublesome communications appSKYPEAAcross 20: Transport official parking in trendy part of townINSPECTORAAcross 23: Father certainly repelled love goddessFREYAAAcross 24: Suffer to keep upSUSTAINAAcross 25: Receding storm in film of the open seasPELAGICAAcross 26: Feign reluctance to give reason for theatre closure?PLAYHARDTOGETDDown 2: Could it be confusing to an Irish student of old?HISTORIANDDown 3: Feet heard to stop for a whilePAUSEDDown 4: Employ pundit, regardless of pressureEXERTDDown 5: Edit clue, first of four condemned as underhandDECEITFULDDown 6: Views from master with time to go into particularsPROSPECTSDDown 7: Moved cautiously and led on, scratching headEASEDDDown 8: Oppose return to university: student on vacationCOMEUPAGAINSTDDown 9: Majority think again briefly when cutting caperPREPONDERANCEDDown 15: Earth's level area included in testPLANETARYDDown 16: Imagined country united after one king, then another, beheaded queenRURITANIADDown 17: Frantic Yale fugitive not fit, sadly, for such a placeIVY LEAGUEDDown 21: Fibre's length unchanged on rotationSISALDDown 22: Bound work with scarlet coverROPEDDDown 23: Large leaf taken from soil often flipped overFOLIO