The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 23rd June 2023 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 23rd June 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Cascara part-exchanged in South American cityCARACASAAcross 5: Is able to divide into sections as French or Italian balladCANZONEAAcross 9: Phoney source of fuel in Ireland, you said, is importedBOGUSAAcross 10: People badly affected by anxiety changed 5 downNEUROTICSAAcross 11: Old record is included in contracts for rock cognoscenti?GEOLOGISTSAAcross 12: Country finally rejecting any possible reason for complaintGERMAAcross 14: Plot Haiti conman concoctedMACHINATIONAAcross 18: Reversed so poorly, then drove initially in wrong gearOVERDRESSEDAAcross 21: Some land in Israeli cityACREAAcross 22: Author from Sicily and I fled valley, falling into Italian riverPIRANDELLOAAcross 25: Edible seaweed from best part of shore I miss in confusionIRISH MOSSAAcross 26: Relatively older Russian in play against a New York aceVANYAAAcross 27: Poles embracing orphan, those who look after kidsNANNIESAAcross 28: Rugs from western part of Persia and instruments from HawaiiPERUKESDDown 1: Capacity of youngster to matureCUBAGEDDown 2: Country upset about nothing in this part of the worldREGIONDDown 3: Muscat dome rebuilt to required specificationsCUSTOM-MADEDDown 4: Positive reaction from Spain that's binding in a part of EgyptSINAIDDown 5: States theme, as seen in 14, 20, 22 and elsewhereCOUNTRIESDDown 6: France's negative statement about European gasNEONDDown 7: Something used by cook, as it happens, in modified olioOLIVE OILDDown 8: Eastern workers in their part of the world right to use what is not theirsEASEMENTDDown 13: North of Kent port, letters he has passed acrossHANDEDOVERDDown 15: Really stupid 5 down in disarrayCRETINOUSDDown 16: One kind of African thus followed by anotherSOMALIANDDown 17: Architectural style from state on AtlanticGEORGIANDDown 19: German physicist more intelligent than he sounds?PLANCKDDown 20: Book some Italians taking horses across motorwayROMANSDDown 23: Greek storyteller making front of audience sit upAESOPDDown 24: Someone from an Asian country that is dismissing conclusionsTHAI