The Guardian Cryptic Crossword April 7 2025 Answers (4/7/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's The Guardian Cryptic Crossword puzzle for April 7 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword April 7, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword April 7, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 4/7/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
8A After short dash caught fish that’s come too close
9A Does some housework, run off feet
10A Comes into lots of land: who from abroad is squatting?
11A Gift of story book
12A Spread animosity at uni, filthy swine? I already knew about that
15A Competitor, one who has turned up without filling in card
16A Check on a rod for fish
20A Tusker has to be in pain, carrying round this on the face?
21A Gap that all can see in ruined canal
23A Abjuring alcohol, holding parties sadly’s ending in farce
25A Hours on knees ultimately enthusiastic about ancestor worship
26A Put hands together on mouth creating gibberish
1D Keep rapping: that may lead to a scrum (5-2)
2D Less comfortable indoors, young relative takes in US state one part at a time
3D Agree not to vote, even in France
4D Overgrown with prickles, front of house is with predictable exceptions totally covered
5D Madman in church starts to rebuke several people unable to keep quiet
6D One bird following another
7D Repairman captures a snake
13D Interpreter cis for now, might we hear?
14D Pouch closed, filled with noodle soup: capital!
17D Change a nasty sweet filling
18D In part of joint, a thousand erotic moves
19D Two infusions to finish off menu in country house
22D Some beautiful Namibians, one on each arm
24D A wife always on holiday?

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