The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 8th September 2022 There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 8th September 2022. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 8: Food processor that is broken by small peopleCOLONISEAAcross 9: Final letters backed wise work planOMEGASAAcross 10: Poet joins volunteers providing cover for knightTABARDAAcross 12: Sign of distress as fall follows sprintTEARDROPAAcross 13: Greek letter in religious painting, not the consonantETAAAcross 14: Possible need for invalid inferior writer switching contentsBEDPANAAcross 16: Unusually veracious, apart from one piece that's bad for circulationVARICOSEAAcross 17: Deny having daughter's ring put in a car?DISAVOWAAcross 20: Deployed joint force European commanded, holding weaponELBOWEDAAcross 23: Willing to admit nothing after the atom disintegratedATHOMETOAAcross 24: Neither posted nor moved?UNSENTAAcross 26: Valley's width in metric unitCWMAAcross 27: Second question in 30 — answer's 'trees'SEQUOIASAAcross 28: A youth going on lake for sailLATEENAAcross 31: Nasty person curate had to endure? Not entirelyBAD EGGAAcross 32: What's old in phony antique? Solve that!EQUATIONDDown 1: State we hear spelt without consonants?IOWADDown 2: Tiny bit in audiotapeIOTADDown 3: Ordered Democratic president outsideBIDDENDDown 4: Once a TV broadcast is ready, used in some countriesCENTAVODDown 5: Like solo organ performance in auditionMONAURALDDown 6: Comedians disturbed about upper-class lyingMENDACIOUSDDown 7: In heartless prison, I lowered blindJALOUSIEDDown 11: Start to grow capital, having got rid of a pestBUDDDown 14: Delivery info initially upset personBODDDown 15: Pitch checker's routine nap disturbedPIANO TUNERDDown 18: Wear thin, possibly becoming bareIN THE RAWDDown 19: Holes launchesOPENINGSDDown 21: What I must have, but not in that caseDOTDDown 22: Sections of vessels with three parts removedFOCSLESDDown 24: What's German city got that Irish quarter hasn't?UMLAUTDDown 25: Female contributing to the website we've viewed regularlyEWEDDown 29: Dance costume pronounced excessively datedTUTUDDown 30: Frenzied expression as English promise to pay upEUOI