The Guardian Crossword October 22 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 66 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 66 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 22 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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Spinning toy – beetle (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Lyrical film about regular parts of forest (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Devices designed to capture sound (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Roadside stopover (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Comic character being nasty about R’n’B (2,4)65 AcrossReveal answer → Milan-based fashion house (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Setting for The Crucible (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → ___ Lobos (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Roar in Italy for opera composer (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → Male pig (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → 1990 film starring Macaulay Culkin (4,5)99 AcrossReveal answer → Grand yarn twisted in glue (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Hi, flap or black (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Excitedly recording chats about origin of Sasquatch, a creature that may not exist (12,3)1511 AcrossReveal answer → Blocks German agreement most regularly ignored (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → Waiting to involve extra director before mostly heated attempt to secure rights (7,3)1013 AcrossReveal answer → Sets of six legal deliveries (cricket) (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → Make possible (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → = (6)616 AcrossReveal answer → Wartime leader the writer found occupying French elevation, covered in blood (10)1017 AcrossReveal answer → Tip, nail or print (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → Scotch: old fool at first returned one litre (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → The Marriage of ___ (Mozart opera) (6)619 AcrossReveal answer → Failure to notice sensitive tenant is upset (15)1520 AcrossReveal answer → Wanderer (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Jester – fruit dessert (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Reckons French are investing in good applications (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Impetuous, easily angered (3-6)924 AcrossReveal answer → Film aboard spacecraft getting cool reception? (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Vegetable – national emblem of Wales (4)425 AcrossReveal answer → Inventor is absorbed by revolutionary point (6)625 AcrossReveal answer → Venomous tree-snake – salmon bog (anag) (9)926 AcrossReveal answer → Amiable spy with beer ignored by Americans (6)626 AcrossReveal answer →

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Tiresome homily concluding an Aesop fable (5)51 DownReveal answer → Author Calvino, for one (5)52 DownReveal answer → Fine US city initially helps odd chap from another state (9)92 DownReveal answer → It’s paired with eye to produce fastening (4)42 DownReveal answer → Make adjustments to weaker batsmen over runs (6)63 DownReveal answer → Gives up (5)53 DownReveal answer → Stiff marsh or water grass (4)43 DownReveal answer → Besotted (2,4)64 DownReveal answer → Disapproval is following involuntary response in a lot of bad behaviour (9)94 DownReveal answer → Shut with force (4)44 DownReveal answer → House of Commons denizens (3)35 DownReveal answer → Take no notice of (6)65 DownReveal answer → Millions curious to see legendary giant (5)55 DownReveal answer → Lose it completely and fruitily? (2,7)96 DownReveal answer → Papal directive to surround Birmingham market area (8)86 DownReveal answer → Temperature in a French resort almost doing for lark (5)57 DownReveal answer → Car part – shake brew (spoonerism) (5,4)97 DownReveal answer → HQ excited with parachute action (4,7)118 DownReveal answer → Experts in botany, say, are left enthralled by uncovered figures (11)1110 DownReveal answer → Commotion – fluff reek (anag) (9)911 DownReveal answer → Grass-cutter (9)912 DownReveal answer → Past (days/times) (5)513 DownReveal answer → Obstructing Democrat’s opening for energetic complaining (9)914 DownReveal answer → Cephalopod – pound sterling (5)514 DownReveal answer → Response to accusation almost completely about the French flour (9)915 DownReveal answer → Say it’s so wrong to involve first of these show-offs (8)816 DownReveal answer → Decorative style originating in France (1730s) (6)618 DownReveal answer → Get to the bottom of (6)619 DownReveal answer → Friendly African country welcoming invasion by Gabon (6)619 DownReveal answer → Sounded surprised about Australian leading (5)521 DownReveal answer → Bitterness (4)422 DownReveal answer → March/April period in Japan is angelic (5)522 DownReveal answer → Blood vessel (4)423 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Thursday, October 22, 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.