The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 3 2024 Answers (10/3/24)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 3, 2024 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 3, 2024 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 10/3/24, 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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« October 2 2024 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Promotes good new cut mushrooms
6A	Actor lady occasionally aloof
8A	Diary regularly written to illuminate − it’s as clear as this, so they say
9A	Crustacean is given old shell
10A	Maria’s half-cousin at last receives note identifying bird
11A	One avoiding a slide – none risk slipping
12A	Great price essentially for duck?
15A	Point at which layabout without name becomes rogue
16A	Where deer might have roamed according to an old English geologist
19A	Drawing to side
21A	British channel rower ignored fellow US poet
22A	Hold exercises, resulting in old complaint
24A	Part of backward African country receiving nothing
25A	Perhaps Swiss roll, a pure one
26A	Impress leaders of health club’s training ensemble after retirement
27A	Cowboys managed goodbyes ignoring expletives and insults at first
1D	Schumann originally composed like a romantic artist
2D	Football’s tarzans include outstanding players like this (3-4)
3D	God introducing short break for heathen
4D	Picnics maybe forbidden in empty gardens
5D	Insects, it could be who studies them
6D	Noticed but left bent cans
7D	Lack of control, run into toilet and appear briefly cool
13D	A goddess above people with time for laughter
14D	Relaxed nice moral person working in gallery
17D	Old city enthralled by king’s meal: tongue
18D	Horse, for example, going around working prison
20D	Show how his performance gets a sigh
22D	Stomach upset, right?
23D	Place votes for shows

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