The Guardian Crossword April 18 2026 Answers
Saturday puzzle · 32 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword April 18 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 32 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.
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Football team 1-1 after leading at first, idiots missing header (9)LIONESSES9Across9
Old teacher’s pronouns (5)USHER5Across10
Charlie brings in bowl for dog’s dinner (5)CHAOS5Across11
Card for One Gentleman of Verona (9)VALENTINE9Across12
Feature of High Peak in which to disappear (4,3)THINAIR7Across13
Imogen’s model daughter required to be paid (7)IMPOSED7Across14
Dance music from Disney on air (5)WALTZ5Across17
Whippet? (3)CAT3Across19
Changing hands, more recent post (5)NEWEL5Across20
Boot her out? There are strings attached to that (7)THEORBO7Across21
Regularly take free measures of wood cut as logs (7)RECORDS7Across22
Huge energy in description of 60s London (9)SWINGEING9Across24
A number in the vicinity (5)LOCAL5Across26
Flimsy Caribbean agent (5)WISPY5Across28
See to twig confused for a different twig (3,4,2)GETWISETO9Across29
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Chorister sang out, missing note in the story of Cinderella (4,2,6)RAGSTO6Down
Total eclipse enthralling smart guy (4)ALEC4Down1
Star’s name shortened, in slang (6)POLARI6Down2
Feasting king has a small herbal brew, interrupted by short nap? (10)BELSHAZZAR10Down3
Like the usual answer (part) (2,4)ASEVER6Down4
For one, David succeeded opening a handy reader (8)PSALMIST8Down5
Opportunity coming round to change colour, artist has no hesitation (4)TURN4Down6
Round hospital, murderer noticed massacre weapon that was filmed (8)CHAINSAW8Down7
Penalty would be fit, if this swimmer knocked out (4)ORFE4Down8
In other words, what to do with broken-down car (2,3)TOWIT5Down13
Writer covering India with nothing about treatment for infection (10)PENICILLIN10Down15
Mostly ease off work, getting handouts (5)DOLES5Down16
More wary than anyone of lake, most unearthly (8)LEERIEST8Down18
Calvin’s business giving off bad smell gets halved (8)COOLIDGE8Down19
Stitched up by all the cardinals (4)SEWN4Down24
Artist’s ascetic discipline: cycling backwards (4)GOYA4Down25
Come close, perhaps threatening weaver (4)LOOM4Down27
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, April 18, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.