The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 16 2025 Answers (10/16/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 16, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 16, 2025 Answers

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« October 15 2025 Answers

#	Clue
8A	This fighter set out to damage legislature
9A	Split personalities then repair boat?
10A	Right to back vote for a woman
11A	More than one competent fighter strips outside town
12A	Entity issuing fire, like working TV?
14A	Italian writer admitted time was not kind to those hearing this case
15A	Sort of mechanical man’s knocked out of cup
17A	Writer emphatically does not like the teeth of some animals
20A	Armstrong, say – or GNORTSMRA?
22A	It houses royal secretary who’s paid to assist doctor …
23A	… the King was in this depressed state
24A	A selection of Turkish tobacco rolling one way and the other
25A	Quietly great player acquires instrument for a pound?
26A	Is it Lynam and O’Connor circling one officer sees?
1D	Gulf City, Japanese mount, securing Ascot’s first cheer
2D	Read cons will be waiving right
3D	Wine-carrier fine muddling along
4D	The authority with which one rules one’s robes a joke
5D	It’s payback time for us English, landing in States
6D	A rising couturier Nick dresses like a star
7D	Employee of 14 bar counsel at first oddly rejects
13D	Good Catholic is still looking after aging birds
16D	After correspondence, friend departs to the far south
18D	Refinement links to the French Riviera?
19D	Broadcast grenade warning on the piste
21D	Rising marksman recording shot
22D	Corrupt chamber appears to be working
24D	Beer in a fancy wine bar’s neglected

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