The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 13th December 2023 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 13th December 2023. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Feared having a West Indian hairdo?DREADEDAAcross 5: Have a go at attack after United leadUPBRAIDAAcross 9: Extravagantly spend start of Sunday in ChelseaBLUESAAcross 10: Incitation to Congress succeeded, with instruction American ignoredSEDUCTIONAAcross 11: At large empty synagogue, using the facilities at firstON THE LOOSEAAcross 12: Taking first of month off is cunningARCHAAcross 14: Rocky mostly very upset Ali is possibly The GreatestSUPERLATIVEAAcross 18: Finally do buy everyone drinks and case for tobaccoGET AROUND TOAAcross 21: Outspoken England footballer getting stickCANEAAcross 22: Plug job, engaging new main writer for Leicester Chronicle?ADRIANMOLEAAcross 25: Lead ultimately lost, Liverpool almost beatenLEATHEREDAAcross 26: Where American casualties may be tense stillINERTAAcross 27: Scant capital in Santander bankSLENDERAAcross 28: Swore what sinner did on the BibleAVERREDDDown 1: Rubbish teacher gets sent up, one who's not yet settledDEBTORDDown 2: Give up, imprisoned by entirely heartless justiceEQUITYDDown 3: Drug supplier swans into entrance to Scotland Yard, I suspectDISPENSARYDDown 4: Policeman's firm where E might be takenDISCODDown 5: Unwanted lingerie I put down, looking embarrassedUNDESIREDDDown 6: Horny male one evicted from American carBUCKDDown 7: Trip facilitator rushed round island showing awful precipitationACID RAINDDown 8: Little craft displayed by chess champ - is he struggling?DINGHIESDDown 13: Is one permitted to catch Welsh lady from the south dressing?MAYONNAISEDDown 15: One takes swag from place south of Exeter on vacationPLUNDERERDDown 16: They enable reproduction of European goods and US phonesEGGCELLSDDown 17: Time for early people to invade Edgbaston eagerlySTONE AGEDDown 19: One showing off for all to see, cracking tough puzzlePOSEURDDown 20: Caught person keeping dry in state of distressNETTEDDDown 23: Gandhi wanting resistance here?INDIADDown 24: Haggard female has day in SloughSHED