The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Oct 19

• Always set off, at any rate (9) Crossword Clue
• A national symbol came into being (5) Crossword Clue
• Anecdotes about British places to eat (6) Crossword Clue
• An indistinct band? (4) Crossword Clue
• As written, I must be punishable by death (7) Crossword Clue
• Be given a red card? Show mercy (4,1,5) Crossword Clue
• Blue blanket: current charge may follow this, very exciting (8) Crossword Clue
• Celebration: is it safe to dance? (6) Crossword Clue
• Child finishing their time at school, no friend of EU (6) Crossword Clue
• Cold spring month, almost all in upmarket resort (5) Crossword Clue
• Conscious of a solemn vigil (5) Crossword Clue
• Cooped up at home, a luxurious one (9) Crossword Clue
• Country hotel, so fashionable (7) Crossword Clue
• Damning evidence of bad habit: one's shot (7,3) Crossword Clue
• Finish brilliantly in two languages (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Flashers risk lenient sentence at first (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Fundamental principles I start to challenge in low voice (6) Crossword Clue
• Getting better, we're told, in hooker's job (7) Crossword Clue
• Grub, a scoop from popular vanilla (5) Crossword Clue
• Large dog returning, holding this in mouth? (4) Crossword Clue
• Middle Easterner first to suffer actual unpleasantness dating Iraqi (5) Crossword Clue
• Model car, a true sport (9) Crossword Clue
• Party manager to bind up neck injury (8) Crossword Clue
• Pays for device to make leg-rest (9) Crossword Clue
• Realist waving flag (7) Crossword Clue
• Shoot ploughman (6) Crossword Clue
• Small role, but was offered Oscar (5) Crossword Clue
• The King's home, elegance over acres (9) Crossword Clue
• They say he can't choose protein in pub (6) Crossword Clue
• Witty person alert for cheat (4,5) Crossword Clue