The Guardian Crossword October 20 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 20 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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Pristine, well ordered (5,3,4)121 AcrossReveal answer → Maiden to depart mansion and ask about coats (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Bird, gastric and swine, eg (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Large gland secreting bile (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Retired bachelor to play cricket during quiet day off (7)75 AcrossReveal answer → Neighbours (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Fossil, so to speak (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Verve (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Aloe-like plant (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Tense card game discarding hearts? That’s unexpected (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Group of secret agents – 007’s jewellery? (3,4)710 AcrossReveal answer → Lug leg iron around lacking oxygen is hard to endure (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Singular small Spanish dish (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Trade documentaries aim to leave without a partner (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Reduced-size secret material photograph (8)812 AcrossReveal answer → Select condiment the French left out (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → 19 animal swiped by one? (12)1214 AcrossReveal answer → Stick, wick or holder (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Mind, piece or stroke (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → The press reporting how a government lawyer might act? (6,6)1218 AcrossReveal answer → Casually mention celebrities as if they were friends (4-4)818 AcrossReveal answer → eg x or y on graph (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Animals: Pink Floyd’s musical masterpiece ends in excitement (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Bike rider (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Location of music stand _ (10)1022 AcrossReveal answer → Offal (ruminant’s stomach muscle) – rubbish (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Canadian province (3,9)1224 AcrossReveal answer → … and themed cryptic for those sentenced to suffer (3,6)925 AcrossReveal answer → In two seconds president ditches in Scotland (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Cunning US car going by railway (7)727 AcrossReveal answer → PC D? (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Masterly, say, like the Tate Modern? (6)61 DownReveal answer → Widen like a bell (5)51 DownReveal answer → Distributed defamation (5)52 DownReveal answer → Cook green ravioli to start (6)62 DownReveal answer → Enclosure for young children (7)72 DownReveal answer → It dangles inside you (5)53 DownReveal answer → Toque wearer (4)43 DownReveal answer → Express kind of lorry dropping off floor (10)103 DownReveal answer → Become established (5)54 DownReveal answer → Powers, Butler or 7 (6)64 DownReveal answer → Drug money (5)54 DownReveal answer → Dawn – elevenses or afternoon tea? (8)85 DownReveal answer → Perhaps case about gravy (5,4)95 DownReveal answer → Poked nose into other people’s business (5)56 DownReveal answer → Stratford theatrical org. (3)36 DownReveal answer → Labour leader supports party over poster (4)46 DownReveal answer → Sleepwear – grinds sheets (anag) (12)127 DownReveal answer → Sailor: I can rise, framed by moon from the beginning (2,6)87 DownReveal answer → Stimulation from coke and coffee generates dancer’s move (4,4)88 DownReveal answer → Large furniture van – innocent chap (anag) (12)128 DownReveal answer → Dreams of cool relaxing siestas (10)1013 DownReveal answer → More muddy and viscous (8)813 DownReveal answer → Publicity, for example Reagan being with child (9)915 DownReveal answer → Paper previously displayed on vehicle windscreen (3,4)716 DownReveal answer → Influenced camp (8)816 DownReveal answer → Chinese dumpling (6)617 DownReveal answer → Part of ship where Marvel Avenger sleeps, according to Spooner (8)817 DownReveal answer → Large American parrot (5)519 DownReveal answer → Corrupt cop takes a shilling away in bag (6)619 DownReveal answer → Botch clue for ‘wets’ (4,2)620 DownReveal answer → Seethe inwardly – slow-cooked meat or veg (4)421 DownReveal answer → Stopped as repaired bonnet’s fallen off (5)523 DownReveal answer → Stock exchange index rejects dollar over American future (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Tuesday, October 20, 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.