The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 4 2025 Answers (9/4/25)

Here are all of the answers to today's The Guardian Cryptic Crossword puzzle for September 4 2025 to help you finish it up!

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword September 4, 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 4, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 9/4/25, 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 Smart dish in toast that’s cut
5A Girl with plait, going right and left, plaited – this?
9A Bullies easy to defeat, we hear, in British sporting event
10A Great player in contest hosted by city of the Balkans
11A As infant’s movement odorous initially, full nappies emptied, or a potty
12A See 9
14A See 17-Down
18A Rousing stuff, I left amid applause at the end of the evening?
21A Motion passed in middle of 24-hour period?
22A Feller taking lift on saddle
25A Find a bridge beside stream
26A Leader in terrifying prat
27A Get rid of tips in cafe when tips collected
28A Support reverend, or several nurses
1D Little time upon hill in region
2D Two-foot fruit?
3D Fantastic tales concerned with river in South African city
4D Speed with which workforce set up?
5D Italian singer hearing one note in three, famously?
6D Rose garden we regularly cleared away
7D Ordering a beer – and being judged?
8D Bird with a long extendable neck? Or tucked in
13D Complete gent I suspect highly thought-of
15D Gritty, I’ve beaten you, nanna!
16D Puzzling score, tie fixed?
17D Tender scene where the Ponte Vecchio would take a battering after dark?
19D Might this car’s engine be purring?
20D Funny jokes about capital in particular – one of those?
23D Hammer beats tack
24D Sign you can’t trust Paul!

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