The Sun Crossword April 22 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword April 22 2026 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 56 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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Caught girl standing (5)CLASS5Across1 Form (5)CLASS5Across1 Very drunk son mother got rid of (7)SMASHED7Across4 Shattered (7)SMASHED7Across4 Belonging to reflective poems (7)ELEGIAC7Across8 Mournful European on finance regularly (7)ELEGIAC7Across8 Snake more annoyed when male leaves (5)ADDER5Across9 Viper (5)ADDER5Across9 Everything covered in blood around 4th of November in symbolic story (8)ALLEGORY8Across10 Use of characters in art to represent other things (8)ALLEGORY8Across10 Cultivate following with weapon (4)FARM4Across12 Tract of land with crops or livestock (4)FARM4Across12 Deadly (6)LETHAL6Across14 Allow almost 50% to be vicious (6)LETHAL6Across14 Some console a guest in alliance (6)LEAGUE6Across15 Three nautical miles (6)LEAGUE6Across15 Someone in charge of a kitchen (4)CHEF4Across18 Revolutionary female cook (4)CHEF4Across18 Apostate (8)RENEGADE8Across19 Ned eager to fight defector (8)RENEGADE8Across19 Aircraft controlled remotely (5)DRONE5Across21 Doctor married monotonous speaker (5)DRONE5Across21 Superintend (7)OVERSEE7Across22 Disregard old stanza by Coleridge, in the end (7)OVERSEE7Across22 Readily repeat from memory (4,3)REELOFF7Across24 Feel for eccentric making list (4,3)REELOFF7Across24 Breakfast item (5)TOAST5Across25 Wild stoat is brown (5)TOAST5Across25

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White in snooker (3,4)CUEBALL7Down1 Heard line dance that's important in Pool (3,4)CUEBALL7Down1 Alcoholic drink often drunk in pints (3)ALE3Down2 Beer in usual establishment (3)ALE3Down2 Cousin of the shark with a whiplike tail (8)STINGRAY8Down3 Fish straying at sea (8)STINGRAY8Down3 Well-protected (6)SECURE6Down4 Rescue lost bag (6)SECURE6Down4 Not present (4)AWAY4Down5 A method to get on vacation (4)AWAY4Down5 Plant with showy clusters of blue, white, or pink flowers (9)HYDRANGEA9Down6 Scattered hay around unusual garden shrub (9)HYDRANGEA9Down6 Greek character mostly vulgar about wheat (5)DURUM5Down7 Flour used to make pasta (5)DURUM5Down7 Nimble (9)LITHESOME9Down11 Strange hole emits light (9)LITHESOME9Down11 Deferential (8)REVERENT8Down13 Respectfully run in front of eventer performing (8)REVERENT8Down13 Perhaps lead constituent (7)ELEMENT7Down16 Small amount (7)ELEMENT7Down16 Start journey (3,3)SETOFF6Down17 Trigger upper class person from Kent? (3,3)SETOFF6Down17 Cried about drink (5)CIDER5Down18 Beverage made from apples (5)CIDER5Down18 Some nude motorcyclists protest (4)DEMO4Down20 Trial version (4)DEMO4Down20 Expanse of water (3)SEA3Down23 Main clock picked up (3)SEA3Down23

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Sun crossword published on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. 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.