The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 20th March 2023 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 20th March 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Stay after passport centre makes a bit of a messSPLODGEAAcross 5: Former pupils gather pine to make shapesOBLONGSAAcross 10: Artist starts to date all Lowry's imagesDALIAAcross 11: Crime heads manipulated old scientistARCHIMEDESAAcross 12: Talk again about environmentally damaging contributor to agricultural growthREPEATAAcross 13: Add too much to sketch and get a negative balanceOVERDRAWAAcross 14: Posh daily in top class cityBUCHARESTAAcross 16: Scandal I believe is somewhat defamatory …LIBELAAcross 17: … when copied thus?DITTOAAcross 19: A gel NASA developed includes iodine for pain reliefANALGESIAAAcross 23: Ask too much of tyrant, when America becomes RepublicanOVERLOADAAcross 24: Check alien showing a means to gain entryTICKETAAcross 26: Second rate shower might collectively display intelligenceBRAINPOWERAAcross 27: Swiftlet regularly seen on this placeSITEAAcross 28: Clear material picked up in accordance with plansPERSPEXAAcross 29: Capital ensemble established in island has not been successfulALSO-RANDDown 2: Water-based dish from France is high levelPLATEAUDDown 3: Chemical that removes hard bit from leatherOXIDEDDown 4: Trojan worker provides good supportGRAFTERDDown 6: Cooked up plot to acquire fossil fuelBOILEDDDown 7: Great activity that led to finished Verdi compositionOVERDRIVEDDown 8: Upstanding Scandinavian infiltrates work unit producing small bombGRENADEDDown 9: Basic directions for what you are doing!ACROSSANDDOWNDDown 15: Uneven treatment of most IrishHIT-OR-MISSDDown 18: Hot lines? Quite the oppositeINVERSEDDown 20: Dead centre of Gibraltar approached from the sideLATERALDDown 21: Drink that did for group when Mike leftICED TEADDown 22: Go, after throwing out rugTOUPEEDDown 25: Name for flowering plant with no rootCOSMO