Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 2, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 2, 2026
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Clue index
All Across and Down clues
Across
1.Rubber bird I replaced by middle of May9 letters6.Best comedian with shaved head5 letters9.Right bores enthusiastic about prelude5 letters10.Piquant quality of Moroccan dishes including new spices, primarily9 letters11.Autobiography shows charm3 letters12.Mere end-of-year claptrap at work, or a good way to reward staff?11 letters14.Medley of writing, perhaps, in distant past7 letters15.See 127 letters16.Fish arrive in bays?7 letters19.Laboured like some circus performers?7 letters22.Annual ritual rearranging ten car seats11 letters23.See 123 letters24.Former revolutionary with brief question for Treasury department9 letters26.Overturned tennis umpire’s call for Don5 letters27.Make stick shelter5 letters28.One in women’s underwear going to the right restaurant9 letters
Down
1.Maybe Joey to leave motor racing track unexpectedly7 letters2.Gossip about one being more smart7 letters3.Vietnamese soup’s super when condensed, essentially – it reacts with proteins11 letters4.Marsupial droppings covering car with roof removed7 letters5.Managed two-thirds of schedule, showing animosity7 letters6.Short, elegant letter from Athens3 letters7.Jules, possibly, probing alien hypothetical communication infrastructure7 letters8.In error, dispatch young woman with object7 letters13.Having many locations, University claims millions put off11 letters16.She wrote request to block setter, 507 letters17.Swimmer cut my back7 letters18.Methodist urban housing muddle7 letters19.Performed song on the counter for drink7 letters20.Better assistant is trendy sort with time for husband7 letters21.Senior member cooked nurses bread in Japan7 letters25.A number going naked the day before3 letters
About this crossword
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