The Guardian Crossword September 18 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 67 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 67 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for September 18 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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Music mag since 1952 (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Hi-tech (5-3)81 AcrossReveal answer → Massive division of geological time (4)44 AcrossReveal answer → River seen from Notre Dame (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Surgery cleaner? (4)45 AcrossReveal answer → Advise strongly (4)46 AcrossReveal answer → Barkeeper serving Lenny, Carl, Homer etc (3)37 AcrossReveal answer → Baby dove, e.g. (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Sly e-mails recycled without end (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Unauthorised (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Excited by ring to great extent (1,4)510 AcrossReveal answer → Showiness (6-6)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Sign of inexperienced driver, unfortunately reversing into shrub (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Doctor armed with positive response, as in a trance (9)912 AcrossReveal answer → Biological circle – ale oar (anag) (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Is breaking up cartel’s revolting behaviour (7)713 AcrossReveal answer → Hush-hush (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Minimal time, correspondingly reduced for businessperson’s date (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Check out books from car ahead of time (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Person-carrying-person technique (8,4)1217 AcrossReveal answer → New growth in bulb you planted last of all (3)319 AcrossReveal answer → One emperor backing follower of another (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Non-nocturnal? (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Around front area, enjoys capital cigars (7)721 AcrossReveal answer → Prey – bounty – accolade (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → Glare (4)422 AcrossReveal answer → Doesn’t go to restaurant having too much noise and drug crime (5,2)722 AcrossReveal answer → Like some examiners – ten relax (anag) (8)823 AcrossReveal answer → Morbid gratification thus found in endless male posturing (9)924 AcrossReveal answer → Large number of Romans in unspecified battlefield (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → A run rearranged, you said, in island country (5)528 AcrossReveal answer → Last one in – that could be stress-related (9)929 AcrossReveal answer →

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Refrain from eating, with final twist, such unhealthy foods (4)41 DownReveal answer → Waisted cloth? (4)41 DownReveal answer → ‘Snow’ in St Malo (5)51 DownReveal answer → ‘No 10 says Michelle ___ has lost Conservative whip “by default”’ (Politics live with Andrew Sparrow headline) (4)42 DownReveal answer → Worship (7)72 DownReveal answer → First in school by a long way, is visibly pleased (6)62 DownReveal answer → Compass dir. from Innsbruck to Salzburg (3)33 DownReveal answer → Misappropriation of funds (12)123 DownReveal answer → Duke is thoroughly acquainted with good style (10)103 DownReveal answer → Hole-filled chocolate bar since 1935 (4)44 DownReveal answer → Parts of records – they’re not supposed to be heard by other players (6)64 DownReveal answer → Chalice, eg (6)64 DownReveal answer → Rely, oddly, on saxophonist as singer (8)85 DownReveal answer → Cogito, ergo ___ (3)35 DownReveal answer → Strauss’s steps? (5)56 DownReveal answer → In spelling performance, initially omit ‘c’ in ‘mischief’ (4)46 DownReveal answer → Strasbourg stick? (8)87 DownReveal answer → One introduced to maintain, say, disrupted festivals (8)87 DownReveal answer → Where day suddenly turns to darkness (5,7)128 DownReveal answer → So-called King of jazz, or another one accompanied by string trio (4)48 DownReveal answer → Spring bloomer (8)812 DownReveal answer → After removing head, open up fish (5)513 DownReveal answer → Executive supporting firm is major asset (6,4)1015 DownReveal answer → Punk (7)715 DownReveal answer → Arrival (of people or things) (6)616 DownReveal answer → Form of transport, i.e. coach (5)516 DownReveal answer → Make-up (5)518 DownReveal answer → Frenzied divas caught up in international court event (5,3)818 DownReveal answer → Fervour (4)419 DownReveal answer → Bandleader helps Mingus and others (8)819 DownReveal answer → Piece to play that’s part of falling sequence, in theory (6)622 DownReveal answer → Name of girl making second statement on first birthday (6)623 DownReveal answer → Order member out of symposium on knowledge (4)424 DownReveal answer → Baton that may be used for musical performances (4)425 DownReveal answer → She can be spotted going back and forth in parallel lanes (4)427 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, September 18, 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.