The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Mar 12

• 17 21 brief, 17 21 to 21? (5) Crossword Clue
• A packet with something sticky, work on sweetie that's wrapped up (3,6) Crossword Clue
• Aversion to heights is never good where always at the summit? (5) Crossword Clue
• Back stabbed by company in African country - warmer in Asia? (6,4) Crossword Clue
• Colour in image on rock for sign (9) Crossword Clue
• Delicate creatures tomorrow and for another week, according to one's horoscope? (12) Crossword Clue
• Equerry's rump plastered in red sauce (4) Crossword Clue
• Flat flatfish: that's about right (4) Crossword Clue
• Fly, say, in starter of soup etc, dining we found funny? (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Food waste at several stores (4) Crossword Clue
• Heart palpitating over wife in bedroom, tickler of infant's bottom? (10) Crossword Clue
• Hitch where consumption disturbed by whiff (5) Crossword Clue
• III wrong? Alternatively, I or II divided by the number (5) Crossword Clue
• Member of the orchestra I understand, violin player picked up? (4) Crossword Clue
• Particular Turner turned up? (4) Crossword Clue
• People staying at home, and stumbling, hopeful steps taken before a fall? (4,5) Crossword Clue
• Pompous, more than is usual at an airport, did you say? (9) Crossword Clue
• Queasy one, relative gulping oxygen is in a state (10) Crossword Clue
• Seriously funny minute where head blown off in which Groucho's prop backfires? (10) Crossword Clue
• Short, and a quite misshapen nose, ultimately (10) Crossword Clue
• Show agony and sign the forms (8,4) Crossword Clue
• Sky, might you have said? Oddly it's blue! (4) Crossword Clue
• Some Sandinista, get role in a dictatorship after revolution - would I? (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Spot channel on the radio? (4) Crossword Clue
• Swinging both ways in the guise of intolerance (4) Crossword Clue
• That's all on Feds busting politician (3,2,5) Crossword Clue
• Unctuous windbag, potential killer? (6-4) Crossword Clue
• Victorian author set to field question left after fumbles overheard? (3,7) Crossword Clue