Today's The Guardian Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Guardian Cryptic

(October 9, 2026)

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• 8. What minister is encircled by? (8,6) - Crossword Clue
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• 9. See 8 - Crossword Clue
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• 10. Eastern poet, Eastern poem (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Electrical current goes through it - mother somehow protects me (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Thus wife appears to be greedy female? (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Slats of wood - they may be found at fronts of bars (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 16. On ice Rex tumbles on account of a certain gland (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Spooner's bathroom parts in wayside booth (4,3) - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Female band playing to entertain priest (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Small bottle pouring out French wine shows type of decoration (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Lustrous metal in express (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Request leader to back popular music (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Last bit of the sticky stuff holding canvas together in protective layer (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Remove support outside London's business quarter (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 31. Foremost of singers, Bonnie? One establishing a fashion … (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 32. … a cut above? (3-5) - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. Nonsense about chum that's set up trick (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 2. See 1 - Crossword Clue
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• 3. A favourable outcome with US about to withdraw, making admission? (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Everyone was in debt? Not against the rules (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 5. School with English communications platform set up for chat (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 6. One dealing with the unknowns? (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 7. A French author breaking record, shut inside Liverpool club? (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Plant a firm built up (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Bob and Bill in enclosed space (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 15. A lecturer facing men in very old university, cunning in a heroic manner (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Meal isn't bad for providing nutrients (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Our waste recycled 'goes on beyond' in material terms? (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Little woman host puts right off (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 22. One who has made legal provision needs time to look over property (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Leader of expeditionary soldiers heading north in Mexican garb (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 25. President that is entertaining king (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Old computer in store - something that can be switched on and off (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 30. See 29 - Crossword Clue
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