The Guardian Crossword September 9 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 61 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for September 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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Leverage of drinking establishment securing Nick (10,4)10 AcrossReveal answer → Entire workforce satisfied with speaker’s praise? (4,10)4 AcrossReveal answer → Crustacean-based Lancastrian dish – promptest dish (anag) (6,7)131 AcrossReveal answer → Pounds (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Abs of ___ (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Carefree singsong syllables (3-2)56 AcrossReveal answer → ‘You have to get up pretty ___ in the morning to fool me!’ (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Gregarious ‘talking’ bird (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Cobber (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Rather personal hint (8)88 AcrossReveal answer → Populace (3,6)99 AcrossReveal answer → Wine jar adapted to store a frigid body (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Number every sheet in book, e.g. (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → Holstein-Friesian flesh? (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Rejected premier with expert going round north to make a pitch (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Sewer (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Testifier calls for reduction to include page 1 (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → Animator (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → The craft of stirring kith and kin with love (not hard) (3-4)716 AcrossReveal answer → Central London area (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Ping over – attacking forked stick (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → A college matter, for the record (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Yeah! (5-2-2)920 AcrossReveal answer → See ya! (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Hardened, sibilant vocalist’s ‘turned into the Prince of Darkness’? (8)821 AcrossReveal answer → Carbon dioxide or methane, eg (10,3)1322 AcrossReveal answer → Reform’s ‘no extremist’ condition meets with dismay ultimately (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Lowbrow entertainment – Gasp! Exclamation! (5)527 AcrossReveal answer → Stabilising article by online pest suppressing ego (4-4)828 AcrossReveal answer →

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Smooth over Shakespeare’s unrelenting resolve? (4,4)4 DownReveal answer → Slur sees liberal undone after having got elected (8)81 DownReveal answer → As a springy book or restaurant? (3-2)51 DownReveal answer → Gain knowledge in (5)51 DownReveal answer → Twilight protagonist or ‘the must-have classic women’s weekly for the modern woman’ (5)52 DownReveal answer → Post for a utility (9,4)132 DownReveal answer → Daredevil bats taking cover (6)63 DownReveal answer → Impress greatly at the open-mic night (4)43 DownReveal answer → Better-quality (8)83 DownReveal answer → Easily riled (6)64 DownReveal answer → Dumber pants, a forerunner of shorts? (7)74 DownReveal answer → Long part of a rose (4)44 DownReveal answer → Top of the house (4)45 DownReveal answer → In respect of failing to start a Latin exam (4)45 DownReveal answer → Handy surface for a TV supper (4)45 DownReveal answer → 2000 problem? (10,3)136 DownReveal answer → ‘Green’s getting stony!’ – a familiar complaint (6,4)106 DownReveal answer → Wine component almost turning brown! (6)67 DownReveal answer → Cook quickly in hot oil (4-3)77 DownReveal answer → Having two husbands or wives, simultaneously (8)812 DownReveal answer → That’s it, just as it is! (7)713 DownReveal answer → Under a terrible strain, man is scathing (10)1013 DownReveal answer → Belvedere (6)615 DownReveal answer → Groundbreaker’s rejected last quarter’s image (3)315 DownReveal answer → Agreed to return one’s pet fish (3)317 DownReveal answer → Long lock (5)518 DownReveal answer → Plain refusal by father to take on troubles (2-6)819 DownReveal answer → Swivel (4)419 DownReveal answer → Officer has to revere virtually everybody? Not quite (7)720 DownReveal answer → Stylish, small disposable pad (6)622 DownReveal answer → Grand = 1,000 (+ 80 – e) (6)623 DownReveal answer → Cheese-maker’s dog food tip (4)426 DownReveal answer →

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