The Guardian Cryptic Crossword February 19 2025 Answers (2/19/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword February 19, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword February 19, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 2/19/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	Less able to observe an outstanding performance
5A	Criticize the drink in French, causing stir
9A	A threesome that would control your life?
10A	Moderate version of Delft soap (4-5)
11A	Isolation ruins Italy’s cooking
12A	Western power accepts one’s a weak type
14A	Deacon’s lot is somehow sad
18A	Intimidation of Chief of Staff by Prudence on manoeuvres
21A	See 23-Down
22A	Unstable, so disillusioned with Equity
25A	Biblical wife breaking the Sabbath? Not at first
26A	Mature mount
27A	Narrow arachnid squeezes into cap
28A	Where there might be a range of gear, hence endless changes
1D	Research expert Dicky gets stuck into container
2D	One question on tax that shows how smart you are?
3D	Denial of miracle is revised after departure
4D	One emerging from the sack found on the stair
5D	Splayed feet – nasty, but a tightrope walker’s requirement?
6D	Peaks since holding record
7D	Song from Ratty, Kit and half a countertenor
8D	Slipped back (rush to guzzle drinks)
13D	Handy illumination if right cloth is spread
15D	Michael Caine’s part in raw fuel source
16D	‘City Lives’ by Brown & Bigness (not King)
17D	Information? Ring corporation’s multitasking employee
19D	Kidnap head of state? Certainly
20D	News during Christmas about former famous group member
23D	Bad spelling etc creates shortage in London hospital
24D	A word in your ear: not all chaps stink!

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