The Guardian Crossword October 12 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 60 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 60 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 12 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Pit workers? (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Poet depicted in a university study (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Catch (in the act) (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Like a lion (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Drug no good when engaging in battle (8)84 AcrossReveal answer → This duck might get you down (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → He met Sally (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Worship (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Michael ___ Barres (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Mmmmm … sporting achievement that was hard to surpass (4-6,4)148 AcrossReveal answer → One’s worshipped (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → It says where and when an article was written (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → Voiced concern after order is dismissed (5,3)810 AcrossReveal answer → Flesh of the lower jaw (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Different offspring almost certain to succeed (4,2)611 AcrossReveal answer → Patsy’s date of birth? (9)912 AcrossReveal answer → Task involving a quick trip (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Skip school (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Legal gag slapped on endlessly glib woman (5)515 AcrossReveal answer → Hood (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Show up abruptly at trade shows (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Sentimentality (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Cause of ludicrous honey wars (6,3)918 AcrossReveal answer → By mistake (2,5)719 AcrossReveal answer → Oddly, equal pay was enshrined in these regulations (2,4)619 AcrossReveal answer → Apple device? (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Highest possible test result (4,5)921 AcrossReveal answer → Surreptitiously deleting note would not be cricket? Actually it would (2,6)821 AcrossReveal answer → Criminal reining in caper scamming royal family member? (8,6)1424 AcrossReveal answer → Classes by extremely lugubrious commanders (8)825 AcrossReveal answer → Chose the final three classic test finishes (5)526 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

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ClueLetters#Answer
Suspect key servant of being a mass killer (2,5-5)121 DownReveal answer → Not by sea or air (8)81 DownReveal answer → In classical mythology, a water nymph inhabiting a river, spring, or waterfall (5)51 DownReveal answer → Agassi or Gide (5)52 DownReveal answer → Bends over painfully having strong drink on top of another (7,2)92 DownReveal answer → Clear and convincing (6)62 DownReveal answer → Cold ones (5)53 DownReveal answer → French name given to commercial traveller (5)53 DownReveal answer → Swirling bit of water (4)43 DownReveal answer → ‘I have to say I’ve seen better’ (3)34 DownReveal answer → They don’t drink – tell store, tea (anag) (12)124 DownReveal answer → Collapsed having experienced reversal (4,5)94 DownReveal answer → Lowest possible temperature (8,4)125 DownReveal answer → US writer in hospital after breakdown following split (4)45 DownReveal answer → Like some martinis (3)35 DownReveal answer → Blow here? (12)126 DownReveal answer → Creature with limb trouble and unwell inside (9)96 DownReveal answer → Throw here? (7,5)127 DownReveal answer → Marine features covered in this lesson (5)57 DownReveal answer → Rogue sees attorney rolling in it … (2,4,6)129 DownReveal answer → Makes a face (8)812 DownReveal answer → … we see her gallivanting around Lima and other places (9)913 DownReveal answer → Variable pay packet leads to such desires (9)914 DownReveal answer → Cricketing record-keeper (6)615 DownReveal answer → Girl entering fresh pasture finds ancient burial site (9)916 DownReveal answer → ____ Me to You, 1963 Beatles song (4)418 DownReveal answer → River pilots brief crew from the centre (5)520 DownReveal answer → England has Ireland in a spin; how weird (5)522 DownReveal answer → Puzzling message insignias regularly reveal (4)423 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Monday, October 12, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.