Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 23, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 23, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Sheep exist on Mexican food9 letters6.Cake figurine, stable character5 letters9.Rickety ocean craft5 letters10.Willing to end court situation9 letters11.Where peers congregate for game of cards3 letters12.Reform three-person group fronted by former Israeli PM11 letters14.Dead animals reported in small bag?7 letters15.For the moment, embracing holy book? Never!7 letters16.Cry out quiet sort’s pronoun7 letters19.Procedure for trimming most of keto meat7 letters22.Spooner’s seafood dish for demanding type11 letters23.Big jerk in western corporation3 letters24.Flimsy undergarment stylish for dummy9 letters26.Befuddle some characters in retro field day5 letters27.Undercover cop, perhaps with retro-style ponytail5 letters28.Bastard! Butler’s expletive overheard in European city9 letters
Down
1.Rustic’s neverending malady: acute pain7 letters2.Brown entrée in oven7 letters3.Employ alert screwball to cover expenses11 letters4.One girl crazy for heavy metal band?7 letters5.Royal’s lover’s idiot offspring7 letters6.Something to mind in central Singapore3 letters7.No limit? That’s what you think!7 letters8.Rancid hen meat gives you gas7 letters13.Sale of merchandise I alter?11 letters16.Players took the van, protected in a way7 letters17.Foul comedians (but not Gamble) not smelling so good?7 letters18.Disturbed, harried Harry has this7 letters19.Titleholder held up sailor in vocal quartet?7 letters20.Perry, accomplished in form of cricket?7 letters21.Pair of wrestlers spray graffiti on several mules7 letters25.What wolf might do, seeing horse3 letters
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