The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th January 2024

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th January 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Little character shown by husband in corporation occupying permanent residence
AAcross 6:	Main country for monster
AAcross 9:	Defective directive defended by agent
AAcross 10:	Machine gun dude fed to a Scot surreptitiously
AAcross 11:	Curious things I see with cat or cuckoo
AAcross 13:	Home of fried chicken and pork pie for pop icon
AAcross 15:	Cricket side takes part of wicket out for a while?	ONBAIL
AAcross 17:	Swift – doing what it does?
AAcross 18:	Thief looking at gull from behind
AAcross 19:	Those from outskirts of 21 across on posh carriage
AAcross 21:	Country found coming through Mali by air
AAcross 22:	Spooner's admonishment to ankle-biting chickens, the tops!	POLONECKS
AAcross 25:	Bird sanctuary foreign to herons
AAcross 26:	By the sound of it, albatross an albatross?
AAcross 28:	Issue securing pile, able to click into place	SNAPON
AAcross 29:	Movement of turntable perhaps derailing train too
DDown 2:	One bird or another dropping head
DDown 3:	That is an expression of pain in 16 down?
DDown 4:	Little rubbish is endured with ultimate character incarcerated
DDown 5:	Tick caught by mite cut in half
DDown 6:	Last seen of vegetarianism, then swallow – this?
DDown 7:	Parrot perhaps – when sick?
DDown 7:	Parrot perhaps – when sick?
DDown 8:	Vulnerable type meeting bird
DDown 12:	Canary, relative of 8 down?
DDown 12:	Canary, relative of 8 down?
DDown 14:	Gal with rook mistaken, however, for the Sparrow from Minsk
DDown 16:	Explosive device in birdcage, say?
DDown 20:	2 down that smells
DDown 23:	Heron bagged by hunter, gentleman from the south
DDown 24:	American diver – turkey, dodo or drongo?
DDown 27:	Music genre, 'ouse arising