The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th September 2024 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th September 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: A cat knocking over nice grey power sourceATOMIC ENERGYAAcross 9: Food group is regularly wrapped in paperFRUITAAcross 10: In America, it makes Joe eat fierce curryCAFETIEREAAcross 11: 24 down bored by current Republican actorOLIVIERAAcross 12: Yellow birdCHICKENAAcross 13: Heard spiel about car showroomDEALERSHIPAAcross 15: Spot of blue materialSMUTAAcross 18: One dismissed by head cookCHEFAAcross 19: Note wonderful fashion, I seeSUPERTONICAAcross 22: A world-beating fine hotelWALDORFAAcross 24: Touring end of pier eating assorted rockGRANITEAAcross 25: It’s a crime to break truceARMISTICEAAcross 26: Old man sat cooking dishPASTAAAcross 27: Rickety garden shed stores North American weaponsHANDGRENADESDDown 1: A lecturer to ponder – starter’s missing saltALUMINATEDDown 2: Sketches exposed columnsOUTLINESDDown 3: Over race, I pick up bit of cramp and sufferINCURDDown 4: Powerful drug, strong etc working in 5EFFECTIVEDDown 5: Involve roughly 10 + 1 + 49?ENTAILDDown 6: European consents to remove coat before kingGREEKDDown 7: Give fines during road tripAFFORDDDown 8: Over £10 for an apple?RENNETDDown 14: Small tuft of hair? That’s right, more than tiddlySQUIFFIERDDown 16: Soldier meets elite soldiers to gather tops of trees, including small parts of logsMANTISSASDDown 17: Bound to be caught after initially sloggingSTRAPPEDDDown 18: Wife quietly wearing fur, treading carefully around this?COWPATDDown 20: Monarch raising some plesiosaur (a sea creature)CAESARDDown 21: Drunk upset by heads of shandy, each drink chuckedTOSSEDDDown 23: Lover not finished with woman’s propositionLEMMADDown 24: New information surrounding 19GREEN