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The Guardian Crossword October 3 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 80 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 80 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 3 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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British aircraft carrier sunk by a U-Boat in 1941 (3,5)3 AcrossReveal answer → Keep (something) cool (11)111 AcrossReveal answer → Moral system regarding race not new (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Eclipse subject31 AcrossReveal answer → Flurry54 AcrossReveal answer → Cared about Lebanese tree (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Singer whose hits include Hello (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Toxic chemical element, atomic number 33 (7)76 AcrossReveal answer → French word before ‘cuisine’ or ‘couture’56 AcrossReveal answer → Mountain observed in severe storm (7)77 AcrossReveal answer → Possessed57 AcrossReveal answer → Former Russian rulers58 AcrossReveal answer → Initially cold and nasty vessel (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Pacific island republic, capital Port Vila (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Completely (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Leader in table to finish, having displaced second (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Meal – and a drink (3)310 AcrossReveal answer → Cosmic trailblazer (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Parliamentary body which reviews value for money in public administration (3)311 AcrossReveal answer → Ragtime dancing? Go elsewhere (7)711 AcrossReveal answer → National park including parts of southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania (9)912 AcrossReveal answer → (Old-fashioned) soon (7)713 AcrossReveal answer → Locum openings for some trainee and new doctors in Norfolk (5-2)713 AcrossReveal answer → Stop contributing to sudden downturn (3)314 AcrossReveal answer → One dies for his or her beliefs (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → One of two deep blood vessels in the human forearm (5,4)914 AcrossReveal answer → Toward the top of a slope (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → Catch ten at sea (3)316 AcrossReveal answer → Adjustment to interim bus stops? (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Male relative (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Joey __, TV reality star (5)518 AcrossReveal answer → Concede – acknowledge defeat – maybe it’s tragic at the outset (5)519 AcrossReveal answer → Made a choice (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → “Land of __”, from last line of The Star-Spangled Banner (3,4)720 AcrossReveal answer → Wipe lance after splintering (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → __ your Life – what Posh, Ginger, Sporty et al advised us in 1997 (5,2)721 AcrossReveal answer → Kelly Gang leader (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Anglicised form for the Norse goddess of youth (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Actor – at reading (anag) (9)922 AcrossReveal answer → Daredevil – devours tuna (anag) (11)1124 AcrossReveal answer →

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Spa amenity51 DownReveal answer → Nickname for Boston, MA (4,4)81 DownReveal answer → Big occasion in the Seventies (5)51 DownReveal answer → French city associated with its eponymous 24-hour race (2,4)62 DownReveal answer → Colour, extensive, but not grand (3)32 DownReveal answer → Bit of wheat (3)32 DownReveal answer → Say out loud52 DownReveal answer → Early photographic technique – and its product (13)133 DownReveal answer → Heavily defeated? Sounded terrified, abandoning son (7)73 DownReveal answer → Critical phase of a spacecraft’s journey home (7)73 DownReveal answer → Must-haves53 DownReveal answer → Funny act – performer in Lloyd-Webber musical? (3)34 DownReveal answer → Tequila serving44 DownReveal answer → Sir __ Murray, tennis champion (4)44 DownReveal answer → Drainage channel (6)64 DownReveal answer → Ocelot’s feet45 DownReveal answer → Decline to ignore King and pass on (7)75 DownReveal answer → Company of 10 __, Elizabethan slave traders (11) (11)115 DownReveal answer → Passion for fashion, say (5)55 DownReveal answer → Needle worker? (9)96 DownReveal answer → Stranger carrying compass (5)56 DownReveal answer → __ Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (5)57 DownReveal answer → Historic, momentous (5-6)117 DownReveal answer → US fashion designer and his eponymous brand (6,5)118 DownReveal answer → Unpowered flight (4-7)118 DownReveal answer → Ghost? People have always noticed this odd manifestation from earliest points (7)710 DownReveal answer → Unbranded contribution from Eugene Richards (7)712 DownReveal answer → Soaked in a flavoured liquid (9)912 DownReveal answer → Hitler’s wife (3,5)813 DownReveal answer → Christmas figure’s first appearances in stores after November tenth? Absolutely (5)513 DownReveal answer → __ Hart, character in Chicago played by Renée Zellweger (5)515 DownReveal answer → Condescend to plan avoiding South (5)515 DownReveal answer → A novel by Sartre – or an album by Blondie (2,4)616 DownReveal answer → Innovator (7)716 DownReveal answer → Undamaged (6)617 DownReveal answer → Small child heads for the other table (3)317 DownReveal answer → Frozen water: Arctic evidently contains it (3)318 DownReveal answer → Edward __, Palestinian American academic best known for Orientalism (4)419 DownReveal answer → Picture-frame joint (5)519 DownReveal answer → Borrower’s promise (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, October 3, 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.