Today's The Guardian Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Guardian Cryptic

(April 14, 2025)

ACROSS

• 9. A yearning for hope initially (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 10. About ready to flip, if ditched in canal (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 11. One who survives embracing political party that bombed (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 12. Crazy but well (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Brit absorbing 'hard worker' spirit (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Lover, once having pried, turned and ran out (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Nation elected to get back funds (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Shiner causes squint oddly (3) - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Sexual declaration used in poems? (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 22. State calls for end of free vote petition (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Say one's left deposit, in full (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Maybe squash plant variant? (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Hot tar's forced into near empty navigational aid (5,4) - Crossword Clue
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• 30. Bear on a Piano by surreal painter (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 31. X's house arrest finally overturned (5) - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 1. See 28 - Crossword Clue
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• 2. Single-stemmed plant's quality improved (8,4) - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Question one: What might be said to end a ride? (4) - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Habitually fit some plastic to retain temperature (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 5. Nice way to support nut production? Wrong (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Christian making Satan a bit peeved at first (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Imitate Spanish artist capturing Republican revolutionary leader (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Fine plant for skin (4) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Old writer holding lives in balance (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Car, jet brazenly parked on politician's path! (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 16. On a regular basis, a diver may be heard (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 19. Particle, negative, orbiting form of inert uranium (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Nautical remit: 'Aim to swim!' (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Concert part for theatre assistant (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Said dessert's a week's portion (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Row of bugs turned over (4) - Crossword Clue
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• 28. Malicious stuff, the crap about a 'jumped-up' Brit band member (4,4) - Crossword Clue
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• 29. See 2 - Crossword Clue
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