The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 25 2025 Answers (9/25/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 25, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 25, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 9/25/25, 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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« September 24 2025 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Lexicographer’s book appearing in short film
5A	Bag abandoned in college
9A	One that is interrupting King, on more slippery ground?
10A	Red revolution backed by large number, we hear
11A	Indian policy located travellers’ organisation outside Indian city
12A	Mostly tense and sort of cross
14A	Inauspicious record over ancient city, no longer young
18A	Time remained out of joint in the morning
21A	Shakespeare character’s insufficiently sound
22A	Bed for us is kept by alien – green man on a journey?
25A	Reason sailor turned in, full of old beer
26A	Wings of angel frequently in heaven?
27A	Old percussion instrument from area outside the country?
28A	Old Pope restricting limits of the ordinary? That’s heartbreaking
1D	Question about the writer’s small expression of fantasy
2D	Extensive campaign to introduce new pancake
3D	Mistake over a company investing in odd parts of team’s ground
4D	Current Director leaving club
5D	Whitish plant and mineral found between rugby posts – ground not grey
6D	Arab currency to rise and retreat
7D	Recycling of minor stuff suppressed by a cross pilot
8D	Judge abruptly turned, blocking the way, leading to profanity?
13D	Water the Parisian and I in fact boiled to make hot drink
15D	Hackneyed stuff: playboy in pursuit of college bird
16D	Observed Arab possibly cutting support
17D	Difficulty, nothing less, circumvented by Greek soccer club
19D	I’m prepared to slip into knockout gown
20D	Idiot surrounded by boundless racket may get ear pain
23D	French ready to be upset about Welsh idiot
24D	Australian and American responses on rearing bean plant

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