The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 21st February 2024 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st February 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: At the heart of things, friend is after money, right?CENTRALLYAAcross 10: Held back love, meeting heartless female relativeONICEAAcross 11: Talked about an American citySPOKANEAAcross 12: Barman maybe offering sample outside front of pubTAPSTERAAcross 13: Little growth? Time to get hairpieceTWIGAAcross 14: Show contempt for horrible spiders etc.DISRESPECTAAcross 16: Asian folk label a diaryTAGALOGAAcross 17: River board offering description of water?POTABLEAAcross 19: A fine female with competence and friendly dispositionAFFABILITYAAcross 22: Girl endlessly radiant after somersaultOLGAAAcross 24: Little birds with minimal energy given tagsEAGLETSAAcross 25: Engineers attending a rip behindREAR-ENDAAcross 26: Frost's heard what Frost wroteRHYMEAAcross 27: Secret things drunkard hides in English heatherESOTERICADDown 1: Solid figures that could be tidier with a corset – ah!ICOSITETRAHEDRADDown 2: Providing with gift, due after deathENDOWINGDDown 3: Kitchen item in funny dream grabbed by its user?BREADDDown 4: Transient affair involving headless runners?FLEETINGDDown 5: Food eaten by boys, terribleOYSTERDDown 6: Expression of surprise about politician coming to place to see concrete?COMPOSITEDDown 7: Visitor to market, one on footBIG TOEDDown 8: Endless alarm – why adherent suffers, making progress with difficultyLEARNTHEHARDWAYDDown 15: Beaten journalist weighed down by personal baggageCLOBBEREDDDown 17: Name of massacre, with safe gents maybe hiding belowPETERLOODDown 18: Report of missile going over homeBULLETINDDown 20: Oldies in state of uncertainty? Yes, possiblyFOGEYSDDown 21: Over to one side, on a rollLISTEDDDown 23: See 3MAKER