This crossword No. 29868 clues and answers were published on Wed 03 Dec 2025 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29868 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
8-across – Packed Oslo twice up for development : POPULOUS
9-across – Get into a habit that is holding back career : INURE
10-across – No longer the thing,to retire? : EXIT
11-across – Means to go east of state road : EXPRESSWAY
12-across – Pretentious sitcom character nevertheless catches cold in this country : BUCKET
14-across – My name is – goodness – dirt! : IMPURITY
16-across – Date agreed? Possibly lower : DEGRADE
18-across – Musician reversing taxi,grabbed by the male police officer : CPEBACH
21-across – Key used in song of praise – a bugbear : ANATHEMA
23-across – Paper is,however,full of decay : PERISH
24-across – Now into April and start of Spring presidential reviews of troops? : MARCHPASTS
26-across – Give up blow? : KICK
27-across – Loud footwear is tacky : CLOGS
28-across – Paint bird and cat soaking up sun : EMULSION
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Every reason you should order sex on cue! : NOEXCUSE
2-down – Clean break when book replaced by daughter : DUST
3-down – Follow the sun and be destroyed? : GOWEST
4-down – One month before electronic components will be contamination-free : ASEPTIC
5-down – Smart but somewhat inhibited : BITE
6-down – Paying member,inferior to writer,Regina : SUBSCRIBER
7-down – Caught ascending with loss of pressure to achieve take-off : DEPART
13-down – Handy means of felling oak with the car’s explosive power : KARATECHOP
15-down – Report the old man : POP
17-down – Something spotted when one had got up,eyes opening : DIE
19-down – Commercial produce around tree cut : CASHCROP
20-down – Stand is protecting England’s earliest plants : DAISIES
22-down – Parvenu ancestral housing shade : NUANCE
23-down – Hike – or gym exercise? : PUSHUP
25-down – Fool around with second hand : PASS
26-down – Klimt’s definitive work? Plonker! : KISS
This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.