The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 22 2025 Answers (12/22/25)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 22, 2025 Answers

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December 23 2025 Answers »

#	Clue
1A	Furniture ultimately not fit for the task
4A	Best sources of general revision before each exam
8A	Drunk escaping the bar for some downtime
10A	Stuff leaking from small sack
11A	Quick pasta sauce containing last bit of pepper
12A	Stickers have sides removed
15A	Drifts west after following the shoreline at first
17A	I broadcast using code
18A	New term describing trademark artist
19A	No storage unit had food
21A	Shrub in one area on cultivated plot
24A	Advantageous transformation – feature of AI?
25A	Put off expert rascal
26A	Mob surrounding old, nasty king
1D	Underground sites of TV channels
2D	Flawed Lib Dems he transformed
3D	Praise one-time tax cut
4D	Examining some farrago in government
5D	Monster rising up thus
6D	Excellent place people often store underwear? (3-6)
7D	Belts and items of footwear
9D	Instructed not to do business internally? (5-7)
13D	Increasingly grand position beset by utter anarchy at its core
14D	Briefly outline a certain, pronounced issue
16D	One who likes embracing popular moneymaker?
20D	Flight from Bari, at sunset, heading north
22D	The end of poverty right away
23D	Was a rat seen in Los Angeles?

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