The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st April 2023 There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st April 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Group of doctors show off info about worthy folkWHOSWHOAAcross 5: Island has significant area bordering sea, we hearMAJORCAAAcross 10: Press endlessly saying things without meaning themIRONAAcross 11: Ultimately, Aquinas and Catholics disseminated such philosophy?SCHOLASTICAAcross 12: Heartless decrees by working president onceWILSONAAcross 13: Everton and Derby's first team clothes not changedUNEDITEDAAcross 14: Relative somewhere in the UK swallows indefinite number of drinksBROWNALESAAcross 16: Always entertained by bishop, say, of old civilisationMAYANAAcross 17: Son given either end of tasty pork pieSTORYAAcross 19: Birds with wit circling good spot to the westWILDGEESEAAcross 23: Large drop drunk by that guy, one capital portHELSINKIAAcross 24: Keeping poles apart, joined European countrySWEDENAAcross 26: Patience, say, I manage to keep in company, getting arm twistedCOMIC OPERAAAcross 27: eg 1st of December, 2nd of May, 6th of August, 4th of June?DATEAAcross 28: Work hard in fact to return formal attireTOPHATSAAcross 29: Release a lot of mendacious fascistsUNTRUSSDDown 2: Runner has day for run, showing more enduranceHARDIERDDown 3: Channel goes wrong about rating given to filmSINUSDDown 4: Pavlova with hot topping getting huge praiseHOSANNADDown 6: Oblivious to the world, like flipping British PMASLEEPDDown 7: Wilful child mostly climbing, say, around homeOBSTINATEDDown 8: Caught that chap about to bring up adult fantasyCHIMERADDown 9: One cannot stand Bill going round hideous dive drunk (with 10 members of 9 to be found in the grid)AHOUSEDIVIDEDDDown 15: Extremely devious setter's rising in value — Logodaedalus, sayWORDSMITHDDown 18: Italian who drew one game after anotherTIEPOLODDown 20: Pooh-pooh bust said to interrupt boom, perhapsDISDAINDDown 21: Covers of special celeb mag keep mum in a spinSHEATHSDDown 22: Like hikers taking fellow as well towards the topONFOOTDDown 25: Engineers fail to turn down supplierEIDER