The Guardian Crossword October 21 2026 Answers

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Below are all 61 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 21 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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Fire-resistant barrier between stage and audience (6,7)131 AcrossReveal answer → Deserved relaxation eventually, being lugged around (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Name shortened to ‘Kate’ in Blackadder (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Post-shower item (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Bag is in right end of busy dressing room (8)85 AcrossReveal answer → A votre ___ (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Iron – newspapers (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Sec, on a bottle (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Wrath (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Behind closed doors (2,7)99 AcrossReveal answer → Really excellent ball game cheers king (4-4)89 AcrossReveal answer → Make smarter – Christmas tree erected? (6,2)810 AcrossReveal answer → Food manufacturers are in protected position (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → Vipers and others (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Vaccination booster? (4,2,3,3)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Live with a socially superior admirer (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Male goose – look (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Sacked, one inept dancer who is so unnaturally tall? (2,6)814 AcrossReveal answer → Compound organism forming crusts on stones and trees (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Park, skin or stalker (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Police chief overrides law for possibly harmful agents (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Relating to love – idealistic (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Astroturf is too much for left-winger (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Neverland princess – plant (5,4)920 AcrossReveal answer → Love acting, without hope of success (7,5)1220 AcrossReveal answer → Barker, Townsend or Perkins (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Learn about the past during this (7,6)1322 AcrossReveal answer → Boiler given oxygen going vigorously like this? (5-1)623 AcrossReveal answer → His toast wants a spread? I don’t believe you (2,4,2)824 AcrossReveal answer → Uncanny children almost messing with time (8)825 AcrossReveal answer → Old district, not one part of America (6)626 AcrossReveal answer →

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Large rubbish receptacles – fails to attend (5)51 DownReveal answer → Go onto (5)51 DownReveal answer → Money maker a failure? Not entirely (4)42 DownReveal answer → Produce from wandering birds (4-5,4)132 DownReveal answer → One careful ___ (5)52 DownReveal answer → It is essential, born on earth, to accept some failing occasionally (5,4)93 DownReveal answer → Honest to ___ (5)53 DownReveal answer → Sometimes disparaging term for a birder (8)83 DownReveal answer → Abbrev. in a recipe (3)34 DownReveal answer → Mediterranean island, capital Nicosia (6)64 DownReveal answer → Modern business caught up in catastrophe (6)64 DownReveal answer → Dance, bow or drop (4)45 DownReveal answer → A ‘the’ in French (3)35 DownReveal answer → Breaded fish women organised after children’s game and before church (7,8)155 DownReveal answer → Specialist doctors – numbers? (13)136 DownReveal answer → Monument not cheap to sculpt (8)86 DownReveal answer → A lot of lies not initially a problem (5)57 DownReveal answer → Actor Leslie ___ (The Naked Gun and Airplane!) (7)77 DownReveal answer → Indulgence of endlessly pilfered allowance (10)108 DownReveal answer → Unit of digital data storage (8)812 DownReveal answer → In a row preserving alliance is concerning high-ranking politician (10)1012 DownReveal answer → Split the bill (2,5)713 DownReveal answer → Alter slightly (6)615 DownReveal answer → Become part of group felling giant tree (9)915 DownReveal answer → Emphasise bell stops contest (5,3)816 DownReveal answer → ___ as a whistle (completely emptied) (5)518 DownReveal answer → Simple restaurant’s gravy overcomes resistance (6)619 DownReveal answer → Pasta shaped like grains of rice (4)419 DownReveal answer → Captain Ahab for one losing weight gets fitter (5)521 DownReveal answer → Capital both sides lost in trade union’s protest (4)422 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Wednesday, October 21, 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.