Guardian Prize Crossword
Guardian Prize Crossword Answers & Hints - October 17, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 17, 2026
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Across
1.Miss appointment with firm – an average joker15 letters9.Patients treated outside hospital way back when9 letters10.Inhabitant has no den to take exams again5 letters11.Wind knocked over communist base first7 letters12.Vegans left Seville orange squashed on Rhine rock7 letters13.Windbag occasionally presents royal occupant of Castle Adamant?3 letters14.Native American drops third note to one who’s proposed7 letters17.ID in magenta looking odd7 letters19.Blimey, Alec capsized the boat7 letters22.Dignified to a degree, relatively speaking?7 letters24.Tango with a pair of ducks, also3 letters25.Watertight floodgate7 letters26.When interviewers show agreement with seabirds7 letters28.‘TU’ – there’s a French article about it5 letters29.First lieutenant dropping sultan round for Pharaoh queen9 letters30.Constant that’s instrumental in marriage break-ups?15 letters
Down
1.Attire for the Lido with roughly two GCSEs, minimum15 letters2.Vauxhall model almost off course5 letters3.Chinatown7 letters4.Publicity broadcast that is plain7 letters5.Bunting seen from floor to landing7 letters6.Walford resident’s caught strange body part7 letters7.Artiste away from Barking industrial estate, protected from the elements9 letters8.Nightmare on this broadcast showing county15 letters15.Spread grain out, eaten by horse9 letters16.Length of US railroad3 letters18.Fairbrother’s tune3 letters20.Cannot even eat here!7 letters21.Husband in lean-to brewing alcohol7 letters22.Achieved success – after many miles?7 letters23.Rough road ran somewhere up in the Pyrenees7 letters27.An unexpected bonus on a cake!5 letters
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