The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 12 2026 Answers (3/12/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 12, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	That’s all on Feds busting politician
6A	Swinging both ways in the guise of intolerance
9A	Seriously funny minute where head blown off in which Groucho’s prop backfires?
10A	Equerry’s rump plastered in red sauce
12A	Fly, say, in starter of soup etc, dining we found funny?
15A	Pompous, more than is usual at an airport, did you say?
17A	Hitch where consumption disturbed by whiff
18A	III wrong? Alternatively, I or II divided by the number
19A	Colour in image on rock for sign
20A	Some Sandinista, get role in a dictatorship after revolution – would I?
24A	Member of the orchestra I understand, violin player picked up?
25A	Queasy one, relative gulping oxygen is in a state
26A	Spot channel on the radio?
27A	Victorian author set to field question left after fumbles overheard?
1D	Food waste at several stores
2D	Flat flatfish: that’s about right
3D	Delicate creatures tomorrow and for another week, according to one’s horoscope?
4D	17 21 brief, 17 21 to 21?
5D	People staying at home, and stumbling, hopeful steps taken before a fall?
7D	Short, and a quite misshapen nose, ultimately
8D	Unctuous windbag, potential killer? (6-4)
11D	Show agony and sign the forms
13D	Heart palpitating over wife in bedroom, tickler of infant’s bottom?
14D	Back stabbed by company in African country – warmer in Asia?
16D	A packet with something sticky, work on sweetie that’s wrapped up
21D	Aversion to heights is never good where always at the summit?
22D	Sky, might you have said? Oddly it’s blue!
23D	Particular Turner turned up?

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