The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 30 2025 Answers (12/30/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's The Guardian Cryptic Crossword puzzle for December 30 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword December 30, 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 30, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 12/30/25, 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
1A Unveiling trees, touch fruit with bent cane
9A Jolly boyo, missing football club, depressed
10A A Beginner’s Introduction: Science 101 cancelled for non-attendance
11A Adorn orangutan with stethoscope?
12A Compound rates I calculate with select elements discounted, using life tables?
13A Fail to deal with right-wing extremism with a bit of history
15A Team leader requests you do them
16A Chinese coolness coming back around very softly, very cool
18A Mix up root and rip up dried petals
20A Provokes ire with artist fabrication
23A Policeman’s undercover operation
24A Silly people name their belly buttons, sometimes
25A Controversially, Roman wine bar serves nail polish remover
26A Chaps joined at the hip, later awkwardly embracing the cheerleaders
1D Formalised union with new arrangement in time and space (4-11)
2D Tries again to run lines, endlessly
3D Dump booze outside of a town in Ireland
4D Groups hiding in photography labs
5D Fulfilment staff turned up: soldiers in casual shirts
6D Dreaded one uprising of a Russian leader
7D Poles welcoming musical girl, the likes of Mary Poppins
8D Evil, strange, barbarous, monstrous Lake Constance?
14D Praise pet that’s barking … to get bite
15D In Yorkshire, the philosopher’s wedding attire
17D 16 fish, about three took flight with some laughter
19D Roots of Riemann zeta: only minus evens and half + imaginary included – that’s where roots come from!
21D Tyrannosaurus raised upper leg
22D Step-sister’s heart put out

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