The Guardian Cryptic Crossword March 5 2025 Answers (3/5/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's The Guardian Cryptic Crossword puzzle for March 5 2025 to help you finish it up!

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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