The Guardian Cryptic Crossword January 19 2026 Answers (1/19/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword January 19, 2026 Answers

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January 20 2026 Answers »

#	Clue
1A	Almost perfect clothes for leisure activity
5A	Still retaining ultimate method of payment
9A	Old president finally gets changed, going to basin
10A	Perhaps tactful remarks describing snow that has settled
11A	Bless attack
12A	Paul Nash guarding part of his arm
14A	Jargon from mouth was spouting: I approve
18A	Concerned with flying a Lear, caution must be exercised
21A	Text for printer is not original
22A	Daring last desperate stand here for Soviets
25A	Such a sleepy town?
26A	Sports car of energy and character (1-4)
27A	Why gent fancied Welsh girl
28A	Substitute that offers protection for game
1D	One on the beach said not to be alone
2D	Faulty effect of snapping night flight
3D	Diagnostic aid extremely reliable
4D	Dragged – why to the church?
5D	Prudish Olive re-read author, a Holocaust survivor
6D	The last word in service
7D	Adding together twelve 0s and a 1 makes a huge number
8D	Big bags carrying lettuce for tsar’s cavalry
13D	Jogs round area and sells leftovers
15D	Method of communication depressed canine
16D	One clamped on wrist perhaps to keep close behind guard
17D	Distinctive feature of a piece of land one has
19D	Petition Lord’s, for example
20D	Stick notice in this place
23D	Sportsman removing top in bed
24D	Dossier of wasted life

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