Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 14, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 14, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Piglet grabbing time with a sheep, say8 letters6.Solver’s after scrap, then seeking reflection – admirable6 letters9.Silver honey pots for something fragrant to eat6 letters10.Rubbing it in, first of ointment absorbed by tongue in horse8 letters11.I had cakes in there, fancy was left9 letters13.Pooh-pooh s-schmaltz5 letters15.Antipodean native in flap, cut after tripping over6 letters17.Notice alongside short relative bear being picked up?6 letters18.Something sweet in hideaway found by bare neck6 letters19.Instructions Kanga’s house builder read out?6 letters21.Top loose, feeling like one’s balloon has burst?5 letters22.Studs made lines all over the place9 letters25.Unruly lass, nameless one, up for adoption8 letters26.Cow with lump of Pooh, might he say?6 letters28.Run over pip that’s been dropped, by the sound of it?6 letters29.Notorious Australian journalist, hack ultimately spearing elephant8 letters
Down
2.Three of four proving cryptic, observed puzzler?3 letters3.Very little brain, an eejit – so?5 letters4.One on prickly cacti I found on surface of desert – that’s sharp!10 letters5.Right from start, wonderful thing?6 letters6.See 84 letters7.A curler swerved around it upwards, netted9 letters8.Criminal minds and rude criminal gang in cuddly characters’ manor?11 letters12.Nothing about don that’s boring is in the red poetry book11 letters14.Without ramifications, joke locked in redbrick outhouse?10 letters16.Author’s written about lost wandering albatross9 letters20.See 21 Across6 letters23.Small drink for Piglet, say5 letters24.Old doghouse, draughty kennels4 letters27.Fish eagle’s wings above lake3 letters
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