The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 16th November 2022 There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 16th November 2022. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: Duck upset about erect garden plantLUPINAAcross 10: Managing, or playing with, ClintonINCONTROLAAcross 11: Hidden eastern prisoner tried to break outsideRECONDITEAAcross 12: Heroin in the morning? Well over the topHAMMYAAcross 13: About sexual partner with depression: the result of earthmoving occurrencesCLAYPITAAcross 15: Game: if lost, it would make you mad?MARBLESAAcross 17: Follow writer, but not Penny Townsend, sayENSUEAAcross 18: It's often potted and propagated with top removedREDAAcross 20: Pole accepts the church over style and ornamentationDECORAAcross 22: Nutty quality refined and introduced to stewMADNESSAAcross 25: Perhaps the young Mozart's expert crack at symphony's finalePRODIGYAAcross 26: At first, convict turned grey in the penCAGEDAAcross 27: Monsieur Simenon excited about college for the art of memory assistanceMNEMONICSAAcross 30: Britain enters whopper motor event quite freelyLIBERALLYAAcross 31: Disagree about line taken by WoodCLASHDDown 1: Obscure book recommendation — book withdrawnBLURDDown 2: Constables cooked plaice aboard ship?SPECIALSDDown 3: What to expect from, say, an uncooperative Frenchman soon?ANONDDown 3: What to expect from, say, an uncooperative Frenchman soon?ANON.DDown 4: Bury's opposite side: tin production, right?DISINTERDDown 5: Funny person quit protecting aide's backSCREAMDDown 6: Possibly another one in party, broadcastingONTHERADIODDown 7: First border described by ChinaPRIMALDDown 8: Parking was to be found for Candida, perhapsPLAYDDown 13: Best college sheetsCREAMDDown 14: They would be crowned before getting on boatsPRETENDERSDDown 16: Right time to turn back during eg rambleSTRAYDDown 19: Organic compound put into water gets egg producer extremely youthfulDIPHENYLDDown 21: Unemotional Clinton not turned away by one stateCLINICALDDown 23: In Florida? Go bag a Sri Lankan shrineDAGOBADDown 24: Just start to simmer and make insinuationsSIMPLYDDown 26: Indifferent military officer on dateCOLDDDown 28: Feel leaderless? That's painful!OUCHDDown 29: Old hunting cry that's heard in part of central LondonSOHO