The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st February 2023 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st February 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Put together our clothes, prepared to sign upJOINTHECOLOURSAAcross 9: Finally securing a little energy: that's somethingAT LEASTAAcross 10: See increases in slow slender creaturesLORISESAAcross 11: Alcohol? A tiny taste, about two months backPIMMSAAcross 12: Gives mail out, based on a scoreVIGESIMALAAcross 13: Waiting for security pass, as Stalin's nephew might have said?UNCLEAREDAAcross 14: Prime ministers given a flatbreadPITTAAAcross 15: A great deal expected soon in thisSIGHTAAcross 17: Result of overindulgence perhaps troubling, Pepys saidDYSPEPSIAAAcross 20: Simple song: could it be any louder?ROUNDELAYAAcross 22: Competitive place a long time backARENAAAcross 23: Artistic style of boxer's, with rapid movement aroundREALISMAAcross 24: Whisper, about to go in to get cleanBREATHEAAcross 25: A peculiar match abandoned with reference to drugsPHARMACEUTICALDDown 1: Compiler in trousers: are you about to become intellectual?JEAN-PAUL SARTREDDown 2: Sort of faith I will take lots of tricks, diamonds mostlyISLAMICDDown 3: Short-lived rain's poured in many a timeTRANSIENTDDown 4: Old legal right in French is superiorESTOVERDDown 5: Bound to make line break important in dictionaryOBLIGEDDDown 6: Master reacts offensively principally falling over rootstockORRISDDown 7: Stalks over the floor in a hurry, cutting friend shortRUSHMATDDown 8: Callas's able somehow to retain musical sense with purest toneASCLEARASABELLDDown 14: Stop admitting a latitude that's commonly acceptedPREVALENTDDown 16: One morbidly interested in death, say, remains in a stewGOULASHDDown 17: Tricky position, lying on front between two womenDILEMMADDown 18: Always in black, which is OK for a speakerSAYABLEDDown 19: One doesn't believe it's cold through the month, almost freezing!SCEPTICDDown 21: Cyclist has her day in the lead, weather having improvedDRIER