The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Feb 16

• Avoid attention (4) Crossword Clue
• Bad scare about parking: a scuff (6) Crossword Clue
• Calorie associated with single ice-cream (4) Crossword Clue
• Cover over swimming pool (4) Crossword Clue
• Criticise minor injury in time at the crease (5) Crossword Clue
• Disconcerting, to be away on the golf course? (3-7) Crossword Clue
• Emitting gasp, I staggered to see my double (8,5) Crossword Clue
• Emphasise how one's counted as a teenager? (10) Crossword Clue
• Food for Nancy that may stick in the throat (4) Crossword Clue
• Friar stabbed, not the first (4) Crossword Clue
• From abroad obtain more unusual diet (9) Crossword Clue
• Gathering family I head for black state (8) Crossword Clue
• Irish saint almost laid out, harbouring unfatherly thoughts? (10) Crossword Clue
• Irritating person after wander about has to race away (6) Crossword Clue
• I say purchase pasta, for example, that goes in kitchen cupboard (6) Crossword Clue
• Italian team doesn't take the lead in some three months (5) Crossword Clue
• Lack of guile in what may be shown on the screen (12) Crossword Clue
• Liable to involuntary laughter in such a tricky situation (8) Crossword Clue
• Mark address wrong too, perhaps (10) Crossword Clue
• Married over a year, so eyed as naive (4) Crossword Clue
• Moody secretary taking age without using any paper (13) Crossword Clue
• One called up to study one's lines (9) Crossword Clue
• Pilgrim's Progress for example involves travel right through narrow lane (8) Crossword Clue
• Possibly made radioactive, so no admittance, unfortunately (12) Crossword Clue
• Reader in church sounds like Hannibal? (6) Crossword Clue
• Signed up, but got less (10) Crossword Clue
• Singer in large church lifting one hand, then the other (8) Crossword Clue
• Something on toast for hotheads? (5,5) Crossword Clue