The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 25th September 2024 There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th September 2024. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: The hours oddly spent churning over and over secretHUSH-HUSHAAcross 5: Stokes derides shiftsSMOCKSAAcross 10: Vertex of Summer Triangle – dependably evident nightly – essentially blue at the outsetDENEBAAcross 11: Scintillating 7, in my flying visits, representative of the bigger pictureMETONYMICAAcross 12: New lander first to penetrate alien worldRED PLANETAAcross 13: Ara represents this single missing blue-green starALTARAAcross 14: Evidence of fall, meteoric for one boxerCRATERAAcross 15: Returning carrier ship receiving earth pictures, not immediately decipherable?REBUSESAAcross 18: Pounds, shillings and pence, steel warpedPESTLESAAcross 20: One helps out leading charactersALEPHSAAcross 22: Sample from traveller in G-suit, features of SaturnRINGSAAcross 24: Buzz’s first problem after shortage – result of huge collapseBLACK HOLEAAcross 25: One new member of quartet, Tim Peake, gutted VirginINVIOLATEAAcross 26: As an alternative, cut celestial pathORBITAAcross 27: Cherished by SpaceX – Eternal CityEXETERAAcross 28: Linesman’s not one for stress plugging in Empire StateTENNYSONDDown 1: What about launching a Soviet climber?HEDERADDown 2: Standards slipping, we fly at nightSANDDARTSDDown 3: See Phoebe, Bull and edges of 7 flying in astronomical equipmentHUBBLETELESCOPEDDown 4: Discussion group remains animatedSEMINARDDown 6: People on radio to instruct landing outside Belgium are sadly cracking upMENTALBREAKDOWNDDown 7: I circle the sun bed occupied by mining engineerCOMETDDown 8: Most assuredly ground-to-air ceasefires will include confines of spaceSECURESTDDown 9: Having visited e.g. 10, astronaut’s back home at last, he saysSTATERDDown 16: It takes a lot to learnSCHOOL BUSDDown 17: Characteristic of fans not winning gameSPORTIVEDDown 19: Group aboard last couple of rockets set up midnight rendezvousSABBATDDown 20: University types created cycles in unitACADEMEDDown 21: Hardly the sphere of the old-fashioned scientist!NEWTONDDown 23: Stars suddenly brighter and twinkly on average, before stormNOVAE