The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Dec 29

• 51 on second team (5) Crossword Clue
• After what's taken by Wags, that woman's right about author (4,6) Crossword Clue
• Bona fide leader, the Sea Admiral at last (4) Crossword Clue
• City where bird entertains new date (6) Crossword Clue
• Coffee, Mr Biden? (3) Crossword Clue
• Cooking - mine kills - in ovens (9) Crossword Clue
• Debauchees: artist keeps no records (5) Crossword Clue
• Dilettante - in the buff? (7) Crossword Clue
• Djokovic's end leads tennis authority to a lesser star (5) Crossword Clue
• Excitedly sourced, having hunted high and low (7) Crossword Clue
• Is in charge of the French after ribbing upset leaders (5) Crossword Clue
• Jointly attempt to reverse effort to create nation-state? (7) Crossword Clue
• King is in groin's first waxing (6) Crossword Clue
• Late Democrat after US leader of the War on Drugs (4) Crossword Clue
• Lay ripped to pieces: ready to be sent back (5-4) Crossword Clue
• LS Lowry's detail is obtuse (4) Crossword Clue
• Nags if out of drugs (6) Crossword Clue
• Omit 26, it's used on piste (3,4) Crossword Clue
• One who determines entry in party or 8 (7) Crossword Clue
• Pyongyang's domain slammed into surrounding well (6) Crossword Clue
• Ranks include first of garrison's fighters (6) Crossword Clue
• Reduces intensity of cores of cheapo assets; consults quietly (5,2) Crossword Clue
• See 23 Crossword Clue
• See 9 Crossword Clue
• Setter recovered from the 'hood (6) Crossword Clue
• Spanish show of approval for Hackney slum? (3) Crossword Clue
• Spy readies boy to go on the run - one way to get out (7,4) Crossword Clue
• Struggling harder - having taken pill, tried again (7) Crossword Clue
• Unsettle spirit and fifth columnist (5) Crossword Clue
• US actor beheaded uncertain physicist (9) Crossword Clue
• Weapons! - a Republican manuscript (4) Crossword Clue
• Weird kid - but worth a flutter? (4-2) Crossword Clue
• Writer of rag denied misbehaving (5,4) Crossword Clue