Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 12, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 12, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Poet depicted in a university study5 letters4.Drug no good when engaging in battle8 letters8.Mmmmm … sporting achievement that was hard to surpass14 letters10.Voiced concern after order is dismissed8 letters11.Different offspring almost certain to succeed6 letters12.Patsy’s date of birth?9 letters15.Legal gag slapped on endlessly glib woman5 letters17.Show up abruptly at trade shows5 letters18.Cause of ludicrous honey wars9 letters19.Oddly, equal pay was enshrined in these regulations6 letters21.Surreptitiously deleting note would not be cricket? Actually it would8 letters24.Criminal reining in caper scamming royal family member?14 letters25.Classes by extremely lugubrious commanders8 letters26.Chose the final three classic test finishes5 letters
Down
1.Suspect key servant of being a mass killer12 letters2.Bends over painfully having strong drink on top of another9 letters3.French name given to commercial traveller5 letters4.Collapsed having experienced reversal9 letters5.US writer in hospital after breakdown following split4 letters6.Creature with limb trouble and unwell inside9 letters7.Marine features covered in this lesson5 letters9.Rogue sees attorney rolling in it …12 letters13.… we see her gallivanting around Lima and other places9 letters14.Variable pay packet leads to such desires9 letters16.Girl entering fresh pasture finds ancient burial site9 letters20.River pilots brief crew from the centre5 letters22.England has Ireland in a spin; how weird5 letters23.Puzzling message insignias regularly reveal4 letters
About this crossword
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