The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Oct 05

• Almost two letters from Athens, or the lot (8) Crossword Clue
• Be very afraid of abandoning resistance? Exactly (4) Crossword Clue
• Carefully describe date and time to take in major film (6) Crossword Clue
• Christmas dinner perhaps a complete failure (6) Crossword Clue
• Conceal what is on one's phone (6) Crossword Clue
• Contemptible type using two hands only occasionally (4) Crossword Clue
• Detour is confusing stranger (8) Crossword Clue
• Enable relaxing - in whalebone? (6) Crossword Clue
• Every route announced each time (6) Crossword Clue
• Finally whistle the proper spiritual (8) Crossword Clue
• First-rate introduction to reading? (6) Crossword Clue
• How angry can a kangaroo be? (7,3) Crossword Clue
• In Labour, for example, I found equality (6) Crossword Clue
• Not unusual to have most of the week off? (8) Crossword Clue
• Old nurse goes to stretch (6) Crossword Clue
• One stupidly repeating standard nonsense (6) Crossword Clue
• Overindulged, set off pistol (6) Crossword Clue
• Perhaps salt water in quantity beginning to surge forward (6) Crossword Clue
• Quietly covering for team member (6) Crossword Clue
• Scavenger who smooths the sand? (11) Crossword Clue
• Shock: seat is the lowest possible level (4,6) Crossword Clue
• Small suggestion we hear for simultaneous publication (11) Crossword Clue
• The battle of the doorbells? (4-4) Crossword Clue
• The crockery may be flying (6) Crossword Clue
• Time for breakfast (8) Crossword Clue
• Wild dog is annoyingly evasive: vote for decapitation (6) Crossword Clue