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The Guardian Crossword October 2 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 66 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 66 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 2 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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Mere end-of-year claptrap at work, or a good way to reward staff? (11-7,3)11 AcrossReveal answer → Temporary resting place (4,3)71 AcrossReveal answer → Rubber bird I replaced by middle of May (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Gets ready to cook51 AcrossReveal answer → Best comedian with shaved head (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Fail spectacularly56 AcrossReveal answer → Wow57 AcrossReveal answer → List individually – ie, emits (anag) (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → Small, medium, or large48 AcrossReveal answer → Right bores enthusiastic about prelude (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Self-denying (individual) (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Pool unit39 AcrossReveal answer → Piquant quality of Moroccan dishes including new spices, primarily (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Edible, expensive fungus (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Autobiography shows charm (3)311 AcrossReveal answer → Prominent bit of teapot (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Awkward – I’m shafted! (anag) (3-6)913 AcrossReveal answer → Medley of writing, perhaps, in distant past (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Cane fruit (9)915 AcrossReveal answer → Fish arrive in bays? (7)716 AcrossReveal answer → Enthusiasm (5)518 AcrossReveal answer → Laboured like some circus performers? (7)719 AcrossReveal answer → Traffic jam (5-2)721 AcrossReveal answer → Loyal, steadfast (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Annual ritual rearranging ten car seats (6,5)1122 AcrossReveal answer → Invasive plant known as giant rhubarb (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → His spouse has died (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Former revolutionary with brief question for Treasury department (9)924 AcrossReveal answer → Overturned tennis umpire’s call for Don (3,2)526 AcrossReveal answer → Make stick shelter (5)527 AcrossReveal answer → One in women’s underwear going to the right restaurant (9)928 AcrossReveal answer →

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Maybe Joey to leave motor racing track unexpectedly (4-3)71 DownReveal answer → Refined quality (5)51 DownReveal answer → Cause of insomnia in a fairy tale31 DownReveal answer → Gossip about one being more smart (7)72 DownReveal answer → Aries animals42 DownReveal answer → Aggressively masculine (5)52 DownReveal answer → Vietnamese soup’s super when condensed, essentially – it reacts with proteins (11)113 DownReveal answer → Cyber-commerce53 DownReveal answer → Confront a difficult situation (4,3,6)133 DownReveal answer → Franco Manca offering54 DownReveal answer → Popular saying (6)64 DownReveal answer → Marsupial droppings covering car with roof removed (7)74 DownReveal answer → Verb on a tea packet55 DownReveal answer → Managed two-thirds of schedule, showing animosity (7)75 DownReveal answer → Shoplifter’s nemesis (8,5)135 DownReveal answer → Short, elegant letter from Athens (3)36 DownReveal answer → One’s out of place (6)66 DownReveal answer → Saw (literary) (6)67 DownReveal answer → Jules, possibly, probing alien hypothetical communication infrastructure (7)77 DownReveal answer → In error, dispatch young woman with object (7)78 DownReveal answer → Immature insect (4)412 DownReveal answer → Having many locations, University claims millions put off (11)1113 DownReveal answer → Where to go? (4)414 DownReveal answer → Leave one’s job (6)615 DownReveal answer → Signs of discolouring (6)616 DownReveal answer → She wrote request to block setter, 50 (7)716 DownReveal answer → Woodcutter? (6)617 DownReveal answer → Swimmer cut my back (4,3)717 DownReveal answer → Methodist urban housing muddle (7)718 DownReveal answer → Performed song on the counter for drink (7)719 DownReveal answer → Connection between muscle and bone (5)519 DownReveal answer → Better assistant is trendy sort with time for husband (7)720 DownReveal answer → Additional (5)520 DownReveal answer → Senior member cooked nurses bread in Japan (7)721 DownReveal answer → A number going naked the day before (3)325 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, October 2, 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.