The Guardian Cryptic Crossword January 29 2026 Answers (1/29/26)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword January 29, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword January 29, 2026 Answers

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« January 28 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Don’t be cruel to old comedian, simple at heart
5A	Duck as light motorcycle loses one wheel?
9A	Leave secretly, ramp unavailable
10A	Contended resistance stops suffering from malaria
12A	Go up: temperature perfect for returning
13A	Great area on Earth’s exterior in which woodlice are found
14A	Intuit a chess blunder, making up for it
18A	Resentful air spoiled farewell observances
21A	Such mathematics left audience floundering
23A	Be terrified of judge’s pronouncement
24A	Homeland Security for one get on closing clubs in E Coast city
25A	In depresssed area knight spies city
26A	They are beaten less, or flogged
27A	Game that looks easy for beginners in brief sketches
1D	Effusive person’s good conduct
2D	The Great Escape – film and book
3D	Inducement to include small number in series
4D	Apparently warming up, beginning to harry senior minister
6D	Weight of stone accepted in shopping basket
7D	Honest admitting name, sort of burglar in dock
8D	It’s good this getting shot of a pest
11D	Doubt the gospel?
15D	What noon means to some people: time correction
16D	Coming in last, contrary to expectations
17D	Batters liable to be caught in the bar
19D	Drawer twice the size of another
20D	Highest standards of ladies’ dancing
22D	Suffer, beyond medical help, disabled

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