The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 4 2025 Answers (8/4/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 4, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 4, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 8/4/25, 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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August 5 2025 Answers »

#	Clue
5A	Show advertiser dog
6A	More than one dog pants
9A	Report of standard weapon
10A	Order contains coercive measure
11A	Fat dog on lead in fact
12A	Cobra peeps out, seeing Rover?
13A	The cat peers out, studying spaniel?
18A	Locum excited, so seductive?
21A	Dog’s dinner?
22A	Banker heading for jail with Sunak once and Johnson
23A	Paul’s holding dog back – temper!
24A	Yapper, lurcher’s head bitten by parasite
25A	Articulation of feeling for money
1D	Great sacrifices at imperial French city
2D	Crime clear, set up for court action
3D	Clues: dogs
4D	Dog cluer?
5D	Dog solver
7D	Clue: solvers’ dog
8D	Seller with key, say, a geezer
14D	Ceiling plastered with resin initially more sticky
15D	Awfully nice dog nips rear of postman, getting letters mixed up?
16D	Dog fed old cracker
17D	Dog lover has female kennelled
19D	Dog – spaniel?
20D	Complain loudly when first of youths ‘it ‘ard?

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