The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 3 2025 Answers (12/3/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 3, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 3, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 12/3/25, 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	Packed Oslo twice up for development
9A	Get into a habit that is holding back career
10A	No longer the thing, to retire?
11A	Means to go east of state road
12A	Pretentious sitcom character by chance catching cold in this country
14A	My name is – goodness – dirt!
16A	Date agreed? Possibly lower
18A	Musician reversing taxi, grabbed by the male police officer
21A	Key used in song of praise – a bugbear
23A	Paper is, however, full of decay
24A	Now into April and start of Spring presidential reviews of troops? (5-5)
26A	Give up blow?
27A	Loud footwear is tacky
28A	Paint bird and cat soaking up sun
1D	Every reason you should order sex on cue!
2D	Clean break when book replaced by daughter
3D	Follow the sun and be destroyed?
4D	One month before electronic components will be contamination-free
5D	Smart but somewhat inhibited
6D	Paying member, inferior to writer, Regina
7D	Caught ascending with loss of pressure to achieve take-off
13D	Handy means of felling oak with the car’s explosive power
15D	Report the old man
17D	Something spotted when one had got up, eyes opening
19D	Commercial produce around tree cut
20D	Stand is protecting England’s earliest plants
22D	Parvenu ancestral housing shade
23D	Hike – or gym exercise?
25D	Fool around with second hand
26D	Klimt’s definitive work? Plonker!

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