The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 3 2026 Answers (9/3/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 3, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Wine-drinking insect, creepy-crawly
5A	Pot is as hot, thrice stirred
10A	Not Old Spice!
11A	Nuts cracked by trendy bankers
12A	Wrap up, wearing 14?
13A	Underwear, inside which butt – and dangly things
14A	Opium, say, kid smuggled into country
16A	Flower remains bathed in hours of sunlight
17A	Stuck in Belfast, Irishman busy
19A	Going west, has set out – a different way? (5-4)
23A	Stellenbosch country certainly not embraced by wine lover
24A	Sweet wrappers from Ouagadougou and Giza filling empty net
26A	14 to spray around tackle, he-man? I’m not posh, buy it!
27A	14, also Brut, set to be splashed all over
28A	As ‘Curious’, Britney Spears, is for presbyterians?
29A	See 26
2D	Charm in a second cracking magical character up
3D	Express then: green light (3-2)
4D	Princess seemingly enjoying orange bubble bath?
6D	Canopy breaking, roof shearing off
7D	Short poem on a rank 14
8D	See 27-Across
9D	Test teams heading for Pakistan, cricket, say, talks about that
15D	Dark art of server, visibly in pain
18D	Pipe down, soon crossing new river
20D	Old still, preserve order
21D	Kitchen implement: it has inspired me to gather up last bit of fondant!
22D	Piece noted through observations on a tangent
25D	Of Asian citizens, fifth of which live in European country

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