The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 29 2025 Answers (12/29/25)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 29, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Setter recovered from the ‘hood
4A	Ranks include first of garrison’s fighters
9A	After what’s taken by Wags, that woman’s right about author
10A	Unsettle spirit and fifth columnist
11A	LS Lowry’s detail is obtuse
12A	Nags if out of drugs
13A	Jointly attempt to reverse effort to create nation-state?
15A	Lay ripped to pieces: ready to be sent back (5-4)
17A	Late Democrat after US leader of the War on Drugs
18A	Weapons! – a Republican manuscript
19A	Writer of rag denied misbehaving
23A	Spy readies boy to go on the run – one way to get out
24A	See 9
27A	Bona fide leader, the Sea Admiral at last
28A	Djokovic’s end leads tennis authority to a lesser star
29A	See 23
30A	King is in groin’s first waxing
31A	Weird kid – but worth a flutter? (4-2)
1D	Omit 26, it’s used on piste
2D	Debauchees: artist keeps no records
3D	Reduces intensity of cores of cheapo assets; consults quietly
5D	Pyongyang’s domain slammed into surrounding well
6D	US actor beheaded uncertain physicist
7D	Excitedly sourced, having hunted high and low
8D	Coffee, Mr Biden?
14D	51 on second team
16D	Cooking – mine kills – in ovens
18D	Dilettante – in the buff?
20D	Struggling harder – having taken pill, tried again
21D	One who determines entry in party or 8
22D	City where bird entertains new date
25D	Is in charge of the French after ribbing upset leaders
26D	Spanish show of approval for Hackney slum?

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