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The Guardian Crossword October 9 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 63 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 63 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for October 9 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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Across

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What minister is encircled by? (8,6)8 AcrossReveal answer → Just like a (stereotypical) man (8)81 AcrossReveal answer → Not that41 AcrossReveal answer → Word after ‘heat’ or ‘crime’45 AcrossReveal answer → Same here! (4)45 AcrossReveal answer → Black ___ spider56 AcrossReveal answer → Squirrel’s nut57 AcrossReveal answer → Reject48 AcrossReveal answer → Extreme prefix (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Male chicken (in US & Canada) (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Eastern poet, Eastern poem (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → Involving places that are far apart – nostalgic end (anag) (4-8)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Electrical current goes through it – mother somehow protects me (8)812 AcrossReveal answer → Islands off Scotland’s west coast (5,8)1313 AcrossReveal answer → Thus wife appears to be greedy female? (3)313 AcrossReveal answer → Slats of wood – they may be found at fronts of bars (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Given less than one’s due (5-7)1215 AcrossReveal answer → On ice Rex tumbles on account of a certain gland (8)816 AcrossReveal answer → Spooner’s bathroom parts in wayside booth (4,3)717 AcrossReveal answer → Bad feeling (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Gap between what’s said and what’s meant (5)519 AcrossReveal answer → Make them meet to cover the basics (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Female band playing to entertain priest (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Said no (8)821 AcrossReveal answer → Small bottle pouring out French wine shows type of decoration (8)823 AcrossReveal answer → Lustrous metal in express (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Request leader to back popular music (3)326 AcrossReveal answer → Last bit of the sticky stuff holding canvas together in protective layer (8)827 AcrossReveal answer → Remove support outside London’s business quarter (6)628 AcrossReveal answer → Foremost of singers, Bonnie? One establishing a fashion … (6)631 AcrossReveal answer → … a cut above? (3-5)832 AcrossReveal answer →

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Old computer in store – something that can be switched on and off (8)4 DownReveal answer → Nonsense about chum that’s set up trick (8)4 DownReveal answer → 2x51 DownReveal answer → Period of illness (4)41 DownReveal answer → Wore52 DownReveal answer → Remote settlement (7)72 DownReveal answer → Wedding dress shade53 DownReveal answer → A favourable outcome with US about to withdraw, making admission? (6)63 DownReveal answer → Over-the-top description (12)123 DownReveal answer → Extra cost for leaseholders (7,6)134 DownReveal answer → Everyone was in debt? Not against the rules (7)74 DownReveal answer → Stitched44 DownReveal answer → School with English communications platform set up for chat (8)85 DownReveal answer → Lump of chewing gum36 DownReveal answer → One dealing with the unknowns? (10)106 DownReveal answer → (That’s) unacceptable (3,2)56 DownReveal answer → A French author breaking record, shut inside Liverpool club? (8)87 DownReveal answer → Contrary (8)87 DownReveal answer → After eating – drop in at pal’s (anag) (12)128 DownReveal answer → Plant a firm built up (3)311 DownReveal answer → Store up – jam (8)812 DownReveal answer → Bob and Bill in enclosed space (3)314 DownReveal answer → Fade (3,4)714 DownReveal answer → A lecturer facing men in very old university, cunning in a heroic manner (10)1015 DownReveal answer → Trounced (an opponent) (informally) (5)516 DownReveal answer → Looked – like a potato? (4)417 DownReveal answer → Meal isn’t bad for providing nutrients (8)818 DownReveal answer → Our waste recycled ‘goes on beyond’ in material terms? (8)819 DownReveal answer → Little woman host puts right off (3)321 DownReveal answer → One who has made legal provision needs time to look over property (7)722 DownReveal answer → Leader of expeditionary soldiers heading north in Mexican garb (6)624 DownReveal answer → President that is entertaining king (3)325 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, October 9, 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.