The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 5 2026 Answers (10/5/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 5, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Independent member’s back in political party? Very good
5A	Stage play after Oedipus Rex leads switched
9A	Stimulant that’s popular in bed, perversely
10A	Reproductive control of ape, correct?
11A	They confine ‘sub-atomic particles keeping motion at variance’
12A	See 11
13A	One’s doing U-turn – court put out
15A	English version of ‘Up Attlee’ uniform decoration
18A	It makes no sense of call from South Carolina windbag
19A	Remove a plant from its container and store?
21A	Valentine card I designed for utterly evil type
23A	See 21
25A	A line on summit, one hidden by – look! – a plateau
26A	Grass one put in labyrinth
27A	Musical ornamentation giving increasingly hollow sound
28A	Dark-hued cast put round growth
1D	Old man, emasculated and quite sad
2D	One whose number is up, having rounded Lido recklessly?
3D	Early craft houses (synthetic material)
4D	Insect represented on chalice
5D	Mature stripe not at the centre
6D	Wrongly take fruit (the Niçoise date) that’s crushed
7D	OK bloke’s name?
8D	Artist lives by sealing lead in china
14D	Extremely tentative about a simple, radical sort of photography (4-5)
16D	A riotous assembly swamps college – ghastly
17D	Maybe Pepys’ daughter going after head gardener
18D	Shooter’s recommended action for ducks and drakes?
20D	As a consequence of your once imbibing free beer
22D	Former queen hugging toe-curling cross-maker?
23D	Unfit, one needs ‘sleep time’
24D	Steps inside Forum ballroom

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