Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 6, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 6, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Independent member’s back in political party? Very good7 letters5.Stage play after Oedipus Rex leads switched7 letters9.Stimulant that’s popular in bed, perversely5 letters10.Reproductive control of ape, correct?9 letters11.They confine ‘sub-atomic particles keeping motion at variance’9 letters12.See 115 letters13.One’s doing U-turn – court put out5 letters15.English version of ‘Up Attlee’ uniform decoration9 letters18.It makes no sense of call from South Carolina windbag9 letters19.Remove a plant from its container and store?5 letters21.Valentine card I designed for utterly evil type5 letters23.See 219 letters25.A line on summit, one hidden by – look! – a plateau9 letters26.Grass one put in labyrinth5 letters27.Musical ornamentation giving increasingly hollow sound7 letters28.Dark-hued cast put round growth7 letters
Down
1.Old man, emasculated and quite sad7 letters2.One whose number is up, having rounded Lido recklessly?9 letters3.Early craft houses (synthetic material)5 letters4.Insect represented on chalice9 letters5.Mature stripe not at the centre5 letters6.Wrongly take fruit (the Niçoise date) that’s crushed9 letters7.OK bloke’s name?5 letters8.Artist lives by sealing lead in china7 letters14.Extremely tentative about a simple, radical sort of photography9 letters16.A riotous assembly swamps college – ghastly9 letters17.Maybe Pepys’ daughter going after head gardener9 letters18.Shooter’s recommended action for ducks and drakes?7 letters20.As a consequence of your once imbibing free beer7 letters22.Former queen hugging toe-curling cross-maker?5 letters23.Unfit, one needs ‘sleep time’5 letters24.Steps inside Forum ballroom5 letters
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Are these answers for October 6, 2026?
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