This crossword No. 30025 clues and answers were published on Fri 05 Jun 2026 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 30025 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
9-across – Old fighter happy I reversed schedule : GLADIATOR
10-across – The writer’s penning line as children’s author : MILNE
11-across – Blind faith in a male deity? Just the opposite : DOGMA
12-across – Trying afresh,male gets absorbed in parental task : REHEARING
13-across – Prior to game of cards,a cut : ABRIDGE
14-across – Author named in expression of surprise : DICKENS
17-across – Republican in charge producing offensive poster : TROLL
18-across – Backed team’s long shot : SIX
19-across – Celia’s name-change? : ALICE
21-across – Lewis,Oxford don and writer : CARROLL
23-across – Befuddled brain taking in article after article from part of Asia : ARABIAN
24-across – Short piece of text in suitable American structure : APPARATUS
26-across – Squeeze using spades in dummy : TWIST
28-across – Robust half of comic duo : HARDY
29-across – Test data? Assesses excessively : OVERRATES
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Old or modern artist endlessly showing up : AGED
2-down – Kind of court that proceeds by leaps and bounds : KANGAROO
3-down – Italian playwright’s storyline mostly about Ireland,oddly : PIRANDELLO
4-down – Serious English or Irish novelist : STERNE
5-down – Dorothy’s largely wrong steer,as usual : ORTHODOX
6-down – Novel part of proof putting off learner at first : EMMA
7-down – A large tree or plant : ALPINE
8-down – Floating object waterbird’s almost turned over : BERG
13-down – Like part of ancient Greece that’s accessible by flights? : ATTIC
15-down – People as created initially in books : CHARACTERS
16-down – Author’s a mug,used to drink a lot : STEIN
18-down – Process yielding mixed results is what you seek : SOLUTION
20-down – Launch minimal review of restaurant : INITIATE
22-down – Write for newspaper about position of left wing : REPORT
23-down – English author sharing pronouncement with state capital : AUSTEN
24-down – A pale cast? Just the opposite : ASHY
25-down – Fish farm,so to speak : RAYS
27-down – Tragic heroine,as Dickinson,say,quaintly concludes : TESS
This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.