Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - September 4, 2026
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Puzzle date
September 4, 2026
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Across
1.Wine-drinking insect, creepy-crawly7 letters5.Pot is as hot, thrice stirred7 letters10.Not Old Spice!4 letters11.Nuts cracked by trendy bankers10 letters12.Wrap up, wearing 14?6 letters13.Underwear, inside which butt – and dangly things8 letters14.Opium, say, kid smuggled into country9 letters16.Flower remains bathed in hours of sunlight5 letters17.Stuck in Belfast, Irishman busy5 letters19.Going west, has set out – a different way?9 letters23.Stellenbosch country certainly not embraced by wine lover8 letters24.Sweet wrappers from Ouagadougou and Giza filling empty net6 letters26.14 to spray around tackle, he-man? I’m not posh, buy it!10 letters27.14, also Brut, set to be splashed all over4 letters28.As ‘Curious’, Britney Spears, is for presbyterians?7 letters29.See 267 letters
Down
2.Charm in a second cracking magical character up7 letters3.Express then: green light5 letters4.Princess seemingly enjoying orange bubble bath?7 letters6.Canopy breaking, roof shearing off6 letters7.Short poem on a rank 149 letters8.See 27 Across7 letters9.Test teams heading for Pakistan, cricket, say, talks about that13 letters15.Dark art of server, visibly in pain9 letters18.Pipe down, soon crossing new river7 letters20.Old still, preserve order7 letters21.Kitchen implement: it has inspired me to gather up last bit of fondant!7 letters22.Piece noted through observations on a tangent6 letters25.Of Asian citizens, fifth of which live in European country5 letters
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