The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 18 2026 Answers (3/18/26)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 18, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 18, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 3/18/26, 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	Halve our shuttle service
9A	Appropriate names acquired by a partner in the past
10A	Having no end to continental shelf is an advantage
11A	Side with health arrangement for capsule protection?
12A	Accepted company is failing
14A	Bent aide put off protecting territorial head
16A	Get through Don’s confiscated article
18A	Dishevelled, drunk, empty? Dry out!
21A	Musical stagehand’s lock retainer
23A	Power failure abroad goes on a long time
24A	Diagram maker matches its bends
26A	Lawyer – southern kind
27A	Forced to dispose of top cut
28A	Husband: stuffy, with nothing up top
1D	King’s is turned by informer
2D	With which to get into a house, say on the house?
3D	Sound at heart if at home
4D	Scruffy type’s flab spread with age
5D	See 2
6D	Medic in ground with TNT charge
7D	Food shop with cross on top of entrance, elevated and barred
13D	Engrave ‘swell’ over end of the combine?
15D	What can cause a failure to appreciate music? An organ can at first
17D	See 15
19D	Is lip/gum hurt by this activity?
20D	Piano makes you elated – just
22D	Agreement to link air conditioning with cable
23D	Get boat moving with current
25D	To collapse after fellow’s gone is not common
26D	Fish is brought up by line at depth