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The Guardian Crossword September 12 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 79 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 79 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for September 12 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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Mexican city on the Rio Grande, south of El Paso (6,6)6 AcrossReveal answer → Garden-fete race for riders (6,5)111 AcrossReveal answer → UN member, capital Kinshasa (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Playing pieces – Odo’s and mine – all over the place! (8)81 AcrossReveal answer → __ Khrushchev, former leader of the Soviet Union (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Love and blood organ (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Outside of pub? (3)36 AcrossReveal answer → Supernatural term for the QI question writers (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Bagatelle inspired by leap in ballet (7)77 AcrossReveal answer → Precipitous (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Well, if you have to ___ … ’ (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Johannes __, artist whose works include Girl with a Pearl Earring (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Plate-covered mammal (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Veiled origins of unique names spurring Elgar’s enigmatic notations (6)69 AcrossReveal answer → Oz vehicle (3)310 AcrossReveal answer → Ceremonial mallet often used in court (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Icon distributed money (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → George __, character from Seinfeld (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Taste type (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Setter’s somewhat comedic endeavours (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → __ Wintour, fashion editor (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → On the great seas (7)713 AcrossReveal answer → US city often twinned with St Paul (11)1113 AcrossReveal answer → Guards and displays swordsmanship (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Fodder (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Bucolic (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → Wantonly, Lou beds twins (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish river starts from remote Iberian outlands (3)318 AcrossReveal answer → One may entertain – tastier (anag) (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Computer operating system developed by AT&T (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Congolese city once known as Léopoldville (8)819 AcrossReveal answer → Sweeties – they might get knocked down in the alley? (8)819 AcrossReveal answer → Sweeper (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Milk (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Claude __, actor who played Captain Renault in Casablanca (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Not all the same – aspirated (anag) (9)922 AcrossReveal answer → Hero’s mythical lover? (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Country bordered by Malawi and Angola (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Drill command (5,2,4)1124 AcrossReveal answer → Common name for calcium sulphate dihydrate, often used in plasterboard (6)625 AcrossReveal answer →

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Rushes around art show, missing some of it (5)51 DownReveal answer → Fourth Greek letter (5)51 DownReveal answer → Probationer in a religious order (6)61 DownReveal answer → Loud all-night parties (5)52 DownReveal answer → Charted tips of mountains – Alps, Pyrenees, Pennines – emphasising detail (6)62 DownReveal answer → Ethnic group living mainly in Syria, Turkey and Iraq (5)52 DownReveal answer → Electrical resistance unit (3)32 DownReveal answer → Schitt’s ___ (5)53 DownReveal answer → Joking (7)73 DownReveal answer → Rose __, author of The Road Home (2007) (7)73 DownReveal answer → Number of leaders of nations in nefarious entanglements (4)43 DownReveal answer → Amongst yonder atolls, she inspires poetry (5)54 DownReveal answer → ___ Got the Whole World in His Hands (3)34 DownReveal answer → Flaxen (6)64 DownReveal answer → 5 ml (3)35 DownReveal answer → Lay it on thick (5)55 DownReveal answer → Othello’s antagonist? (4)45 DownReveal answer → Eccentric dude – a nob – was more than enough! (8)85 DownReveal answer → Flattened tones in jazz (4,5)96 DownReveal answer → Leonardo __, Renaissance polymath (2,5)76 DownReveal answer → Impulsive (5-6)117 DownReveal answer → Texan city often twinned with Fort Worth (6)67 DownReveal answer → Drifter – gatherer (11)118 DownReveal answer → City often twinned with 19 (11)118 DownReveal answer → Component inside prolongs hotspot? It’s unlikely to succeed (4,4)88 DownReveal answer → Container damaged EV less (6)611 DownReveal answer → Sum apportioned (9)912 DownReveal answer → Large piece of cake, hidden under Nan’s kagool, initially (5)513 DownReveal answer → Element, similar to platinum (7)714 DownReveal answer → Chest made for storing human remains (7)715 DownReveal answer → Comedians’ hearts? (5)515 DownReveal answer → Indignation (7)716 DownReveal answer → Put money into this ex-Liverpool manager (4)416 DownReveal answer → Cologne originally from the West Indies (3,3)617 DownReveal answer → Japanese entertainer (6)617 DownReveal answer → Carried windowed chair (5)519 DownReveal answer → Mountains between Argentina and Chile (5)520 DownReveal answer → Sparkling Italian wine (4)421 DownReveal answer → Horse relative (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, September 12, 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.