Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 5, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.
The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 5, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 3/5/25, 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 |
Cursed setter has been sacked? |
| 5A |
See 2-Down |
| 9A |
Line of text, one penned by hand |
| 10A |
Orange etc, coloured ornament |
| 11A |
Love with sentimental parts melts away in amorous glance (3-3,4) |
| 12A |
Developing bug, a youngster recovered |
| 14A |
Awful noise, rear of car in bump, say? |
| 18A |
Workers choose time to stick on wings of honey bees, say |
| 21A |
Old European capital’s forgotten in Russian city |
| 22A |
Trumped-up ideas he fed to right-wingers behind the very same crime |
| 25A |
Therein I associate first |
| 26A |
I stand on capital in Rome, passing Tuscany originally? |
| 27A |
Clues where vernacular is reversed |
| 28A |
Field where ring found by English king having lost one |
| 1D |
Fix something herbal – how much of that? |
| 2D |
Cambridge institution let girl go, once trained |
| 3D |
Removing cargo, and I stumbled in where it’s easy to fall? |
| 4D |
Odds slashed in bet as golfer, result of chipping in, perhaps? |
| 5D |
Someone offering accompaniment – with soloist’s ‘Tea for Two’? |
| 6D |
Vegetable shiny, top rubbed off |
| 7D |
Articulate what requires translation in note left out |
| 8D |
High up, European victory secured |
| 13D |
Panglossian contract is sealed by it, I see |
| 15D |
Tragedian chooses half of play for adaptation |
| 16D |
See 22-Across |
| 17D |
Make notes about crush, divine |
| 19D |
Foreign character, meat certainly for Putin |
| 20D |
Cross near top of hill erected, clear below |
| 23D |
For instance, very green light (3-2) |
| 24D |
Princess, vain, in storming off? |
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