The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 20 2025 Answers (10/20/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 20, 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 20, 2025 Answers

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October 21 2025 Answers »

#	Clue
1A	One offering unwanted advice to support troubled advertiser (4-4,6)
8A	Mathematician’s principle, first to last attached to basis of logarithms
9A	Date energy stabilised
11A	Being caught probing religious ascetic
12A	Program linked to a reduced kind of plants
13A	Short comic piece brother’s written capturing Queen
15A	Players in soccer game forming line on another pitch? (6-3)
17A	Keen frost wrecked fasteners
20A	US farm subdivision not opening for business
21A	Performing for men in unit
23A	Look at sites, backing corporation’s slice
25A	Spring not entirely long? There’s an extra day in it
26A	Krypton, oxygen, neon and tin from Scandinavia
27A	Twice note collapses in funds for Durham town (8-2-4)
1D	A night at the pub may give you it when you want it
2D	Drinks cold water on leaving bar upset
3D	Release volume dismissing an old rugby player
4D	After a month, satisfied to receive new increase
5D	Stop papers reversing demand about book
6D	Still no start of better time
7D	Scientist’s wife abandoning marriage fashion
10D	Unexpectedly chose to inhale pot – resounding effects in these places
14D	A Parisienne and American together, mostly sleeping? Extremely disquieting
16D	Extravagant dish largely avoided during occasion
18D	Finished early race, skipping second part of Cheddar Gorge
19D	Colourful parts of plant, small and mainly slight
22D	Jelly son consumed in a shot
24D	Figure of speech elevated by English Left

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