The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 21st December 2015 There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 21st December 2015. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Inflame family that’s led astrayKINDLEAAcross 5: Lecture when spirit is trapped insideMORALISEAAcross 9: Received account for sheets of paper, 500ACQUIREDAAcross 10: Short sailor Rex put outABRUPTAAcross 11: Had rights and changed a challenging criterionHIGHSTANDARDAAcross 13: Iron Lawrence found at the fairFETEAAcross 14: Model, one playing musical instrumentMELODEONAAcross 17: Pull the French king from fighterWRESTLERAAcross 18: Parent, one new to HeadMAINAAcross 20: Welsh ferries set out for fairground ridesFERRISWHEELSAAcross 23: Initially no improvement made by accepting student quicklyNIMBLYAAcross 24: Branch our journalist protectedARMOUREDAAcross 25: Poke fun at cruel idiot, mostly drunkRIDICULEAAcross 26: Commoner boy‘s mixed up with donNOBODYDDown 2: Villain cheated a bit to make slow progressINCHDDown 3: Issues of a feminine natureDAUGHTERSDDown 4: Anger near criminal, for example, being upsetENRAGEDDown 5: Behaving very oddly — furious, like a demo over hair, reportedlyMADASAMARCHHAREDDown 6: Study can make something legibleREADABLEDDown 7: Look up racy image, displayed initially for to be shockingLURIDDDown 8: Excellent boy in charge, when moving at very high speedSUPERSONICDDown 12: Ruling is in trouble, but it's not absoluteDECREE NISIDDown 15: Failed attempt at bad, bad quips about MikeDAMPSQUIBDDown 16: Benediction not to be sneezed at!BLESSYOUDDown 19: Hesitation married son deviously hides in discourseSERMONDDown 21: Barbie almost cooked for Jewish scholarRABBIDDown 22: Minister to nurseTEND