The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 7 2025 Answers (10/7/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword October 7, 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 7, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 10/7/25, 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	Writer of prose can start to turn verse out
6A	Problem has engineers attending vehicle
9A	Measure copper coin
10A	Our unusual day-to-day record is beginning to trouble medical expert
11A	Point made by idiot, learner expelled
12A	Secret agent put out in prominent position
14A	Office worker about to be dismissed as member of religious group
15A	New hotel bringing in a new intoxicant
16A	Examined excellent item of furniture
19A	What’s exciting for male? It’s to do with what mini reveals
22A	Mum, one of the celebs who values goods above godliness?
23A	River settlement not quiet
24A	Grown-up, one getting on, receiving a fan’s fawning
26A	Cooked a suet dish
27A	Old characters travel around to get meat
28A	Most fond of outdoor life, stops delving into screen message
1D	Baddy captured by American agency’s chirpy types
2D	Bishop into something radical, mostly very cold and inhuman
3D	Be got hold of by a merchant working in reception area
4D	Sporting contest – time for Jack to travel
5D	Curse of firm limited in growth
6D	Port imbibed by patriot
7D	Country woman given education in statistics group
8D	Poet not to lounge?
13D	Maybe like things put into boxes or chests I made specially
16D	Fish old fellow catches quietly in Italian river
17D	Story told originally in a French book about a Moabite woman
18D	Nobody was such a writer
19D	Receiver gets hold of excellent glazed earthenware
20D	Hermit with cunning plan to eat half a cake
21D	Shining, keen to hide slightest bit of blackness
25D	This writer’s going after a goal

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