Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - September 1, 2026
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Puzzle date
September 1, 2026
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Across
1.Take flight, carrying Charlie, following sea transportation issue7 letters5.Recognises love shared by you and me?7 letters9.Oversees advancement of ecstasy in hell5 letters10.Schedule board to pursue Master embroiled in relationship9 letters11.Normally, on the other hand, start off cautiously after loud noise10 letters12.Reality show tailing female4 letters14.Being out of order, criticise and put down setter, heartless nut!12 letters18.Another order for gilt Nile scene excluding special information12 letters21.Giganet’s first free network4 letters22.Flying creature with claws circling international groups of soldiers10 letters25.Teaching can die out if it’s disordered9 letters26.Swing headless fish5 letters27.Wood surrounding the outskirts of Blackpool gets three times bigger7 letters28.Part company in English hamlet, half-cut7 letters
Down
1.Principally, social categorisation has one overwhelming limitation – it’s divided by class6 letters2.Chief briefly interrupted by a doctor turning tables6 letters3.French milk served up in German city’s just what we need10 letters4.Instructor’s express disapproval with soldiers5 letters5.Smell I left before I ate is cause to feel bad9 letters6.N American, African, Asian, Oceanian or even from the Antarctic!4 letters7.Open-minded nude American Bishop is sacked8 letters8.Watch Spooner’s electronics series?8 letters13.Nice places being arranged – somewhere to accommodate writers10 letters15.1Ds for young, strait-laced group of stars9 letters16.Gin diet’s crazy – and most dull!8 letters17.Mood elevation when drinking Tango, putting away litres!8 letters19.It may be carrying files from the French supporting Eastern currency6 letters20.State agreement for rise6 letters23.Disorganised teens stressed5 letters24.Antifa illegally concealing collapse4 letters
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