Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword May 15, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.
The Guardian Cryptic Crossword May 15, 2025 Answers
If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 5/15/25, 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 | Outstanding rule about dead fascist, as his friends called him? |
| 5A | Intellectual rebel has accident with car |
| 9A | Almost deceived at tea dance |
| 10A | Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation |
| 11A | Bird entered the water the far side of the pond |
| 12A | Nursing a broken knee, turn to worship now in American style |
| 13A | One greeting king is servile, not unpleasant |
| 14A | The centre of Bangor? |
| 16A | Costing a bomb to be sceptical |
| 19A | I stole Christmas, and grimace at church |
| 21A | Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service |
| 23A | Start off speaking with grit |
| 24A | Charge a line of waiters has announced |
| 25A | Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled |
| 26A | Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan |
| 27A | Under compulsion, you make irregular patterns (3-3) |
| 2D | School cane, a stinger, wielded across Charlie, a paradoxical creature |
| 3D | Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers |
| 4D | Comic part performed for three-ha’pence once |
| 5D | Won everything when up, having lost everything when out |
| 6D | A survey run, and behold! |
| 7D | Use live computer image of suspect with name attached |
| 8D | That’s a threat of retaliation in chess, for example |
| 15D | Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants |
| 17D | Old bridge, not a tube |
| 18D | Start to cultivate non-native tree, its heart extracted for coffee substitute |
| 20D | Introduce oxygen, burning part of church |
| 22D | Ring area of the kidneys, not large |
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