The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Apr 27

• A brief experience of discrimination (5) Crossword Clue
• An idiot picked up sponge (5) Crossword Clue
• Brazen volte-face about poem, 'Polecat' (7,6) Crossword Clue
• Budgie perhaps free in big cedar (4-4) Crossword Clue
• Cook breakfast, including coffee, getting insincere praise? (8) Crossword Clue
• Deal-maker in pub, one taking a profit (9) Crossword Clue
• Get over arch, and one may make a bolt for it (8) Crossword Clue
• Hardy folk lived here in primarily wild county (6) Crossword Clue
• Have no argument with an Athenian amputee (5) Crossword Clue
• Hello again, rector: still not made a bishop? (4,4,2,3) Crossword Clue
• Ideas for a reform mentioned earlier (9) Crossword Clue
• In isle grey tomb crumbling, typically romantic (3-5-4) Crossword Clue
• Kubrick briefly portrayed Scottish patron (2,6) Crossword Clue
• Lower tier seats filled first for this film? (4,2,3,3) Crossword Clue
• Many times relent, though not at first (5) Crossword Clue
• Missile landing in sniper's lair: this tightest of squeaks? (9) Crossword Clue
• New American widescreen system (8) Crossword Clue
• Not simple, so restive (6) Crossword Clue
• Old Parliamentary radicals who told it to you straight? (9) Crossword Clue
• On journey, train isn't moving (2,7) Crossword Clue
• People searching for these here but they lack concentration (9) Crossword Clue
• Pretty shy hugging me at rear of school (6) Crossword Clue
• Reach the top of chest (6) Crossword Clue
• Relish oxygen brought by sudden wind (5) Crossword Clue
• Shrub and vegetable penetrated by decay (6) Crossword Clue
• Spoke of what one has in each arms (6) Crossword Clue
• Swell breakfast item (8) Crossword Clue
• Track down a very tiny amount (5) Crossword Clue