The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 13 2025 Answers (8/13/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 13, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 13, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
7A	More work defaced with your flipping clipart?
8A	Blubber on the belly of Basil Brush?
9A	Terms of economic policy address insufficient growth
10A	Nova Scotia almost botched missions
12A	Elle Macpherson in retreat holding a cigarette
13A	Determined expression of girlfriend tackling a Brockwell Genius
15A	Son admitted to lying about police record
16A	Exeter’s wingers go after draw in defensive formation
17A	Kitty’s back to stay
18A	Jockey regularly steers Tiger Roll
20A	Bill Clinton’s original hell
21A	Industry quarrel about Keith Chegwin’s No.1 hit
22A	Group typically made up of runners heading to finish
24A	Avoided Europeans on vacation dressed like Superman
25A	Tense over following injury
1D	Spooner’s house-elf is stiff
2D	Day for Cristiano Ronaldo to meet international comms leaders, like O2
3D	Pass time with composer
4D	Tango with Oti Mabuse exhausted Romeo and love rat (3-5)
5D	Selection of Waitrose toffees in foil (3-3)
6D	Calls on arrest for dictator
11D	Business mogul essentially throws out 14 from Disney Castle
12D	The writer is restricted by red ring
14D	Notice male snorting line
16D	Reeled in trout at sea intermittently on date
17D	Poseidon embracing power of conversation
19D	Welshman pulled up over occasionally narrow encroachment
20D	Absent parent to throw husband out over nothing
21D	Sensible questions in audition
23D	Lazy person getting the bullet

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