Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 5, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 5, 2026
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Across
5.Overindulged, set off pistol6 letters6.Every route announced each time6 letters9.Christmas dinner perhaps a complete failure6 letters10.Finally whistle the proper spiritual8 letters11.Be very afraid of abandoning resistance? Exactly4 letters12.Shock: seat is the lowest possible level10 letters13.Small suggestion we hear for simultaneous publication11 letters18.How angry can a kangaroo be?10 letters21.Contemptible type using two hands only occasionally4 letters22.Time for breakfast8 letters23.First-rate introduction to reading?6 letters24.Old nurse goes to stretch6 letters25.Conceal what is on one’s phone6 letters
Down
1.Not unusual to have most of the week off?8 letters2.Quietly covering for team member6 letters3.Almost two letters from Athens, or the lot8 letters4.One stupidly repeating standard nonsense6 letters5.The crockery may be flying6 letters7.Perhaps salt water in quantity beginning to surge forward6 letters8.Scavenger who smooths the sand?11 letters14.The battle of the doorbells?8 letters15.Detour is confusing stranger8 letters16.Wild dog is annoyingly evasive: vote for decapitation6 letters17.Enable relaxing – in whalebone?6 letters19.In Labour, for example, I found equality6 letters20.Carefully describe date and time to take in major film6 letters
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