Daily Mirror Quiz Crossword
Latest Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers, Clues & Hints — October 12, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 12, 2026
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Across
1.Any of various breeds of dog with very dense hair and a tightly-curled tail (5)5 letters4.African republic whose capital is Cairo (5)5 letters10.Leonhard -, 18th-century mathematician noted for his work on the calculus of variation (5)5 letters11.& 17A Australia-born actress whose roles have included Stella Oleson in 2007 horror film 30 Days of Night (7,6)7 letters12.1995 animated film featuring the characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear (3,5)8 letters13.US coin worth one hundredth of a dollar (4)4 letters15.Thick, incendiary liquid consisting of petrol gelled with aluminium soaps (6)6 letters17.see 11 Across (6)6 letters19.& 24A 1928 novel by P C Wren (4,5)4 letters20.Benjamin -, prime minister from 1874-80 (8)8 letters23.Sea of -, that part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands and Siberian mainland (7)7 letters24.see 19 Across (5)5 letters25.& 26A Pakistan-born cricketer whose 2011 South Africa Test debut was against Australia at Cape Town (5,5)5 letters26.see 25 Across (5)5 letters
Down
2.& 16D Macheath's wife in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical The Beggar's Opera (5,7)5 letters3.Device that controls the quantity of fuel entering an engine (8)8 letters5.Patrick -, author of the novels A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition (4)4 letters6.Louis -, 19th-century French pioneer in microbiology (7)7 letters7.Market town on the River Teign in Devon housing a horse racecourse (6,5)11 letters8.Kate -, actress whose roles included Laura Wilde in BBC TV series Howards' Way (5)5 letters9.see 22 Down (11)11 letters14.Wayne -, 1992 and 2003 Australian Open singles tennis tournament semi-finalist (8)8 letters16.see 2 Down (7)7 letters18.- whale, small marine mammal with a white band on each flipper (5)5 letters21.Tree native to the Philippines that yields a resin used as a herbal medicine (5)5 letters22.& 9D 1934 novel by Graham Greene (3,1,11)4 letters
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