The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 29 2025 Answers (9/29/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 29, 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 29, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 9/29/25, 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	Students here affected America
5A	Tom possibly on a search for dead accommodating place
9A	Dodgy football club concealing debt
10A	Lines of type or squiggles
11A	Before gossip, stand aside
13A	Backward Yanks study!?
14A	What makes the real you deny it – twice, brazenly?
17A	Underwear that’s exasperating
18A	Catch wife in embrace of mate
20A	Crime of old lady: nabbing rocking cradle
23A	Use milk, almost curdled, for breakfast?
24A	Display lamb cooked in controlled zone
25A	Mature blend of rye? That’s cheating!
26A	Good as a woodwind section – but insatiable
2D	Range of adult records from former times
3D	Soldiers, with one jerk clinging on for support
4D	Labour needs a new election catchphrase?
5D	Customer is e.g. about to be covered in blubber as a means of improving looks?
6D	Bugs, garden tools, dance wear
7D	Garnish shows one’s out of touch romantically
8D	Could be Ludlow’s ATM network needs fixing
12D	Bird needs a shot to move gracefully
15D	Sort of trifle that produces tight coat!
16D	French writer’s not entirely over LA – “inexorable!”
19D	Sucker’s base program error
21D	Nosy overseer of missions by lake
22D	Pound to go out of business

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