Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Crosswords

  • Quick
    Quick crossword No 17,010

  • Cryptic
    Cryptic crossword No 29,537

    • Quick cryptic
      Quick cryptic crossword No 32

    • Prize
      Prize crossword No 29,536

    • Everyman
      Everyman crossword No 4,073

    • Quiptic
      Quiptic crossword No 1,303

    • Genius
      Genius crossword No 257

    • Azed
      Azed crossword 2,734

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Other puzzles

  • Aerial view of a busy railway sidings with different coloured trains stabled on rail tracks

    The quiz
    What is the busiest UK railway station outside of London? The Saturday quiz

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku 6,686 easy

  • Killer sudoku
    Observer killer sudoku

  • Undated film still from Paddington In Peru. Pictured: Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw). See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: StudioCanal. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Film Reviews.

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Play the Guardian's daily word game and share your score with your friends

Play Wordiply" Play
Wordiply composition

Crosswords blog


Contact the crossword editors

Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius
Email guardian.crosswords​@theguardian.com

Speedy, Everyman and Azed
Email observer.crosswords​@theguardian.com
For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian.com

  • many crosswords

    Devious humour and painful puns: will the cryptic crossword remain the last thing AI can’t conquer?

  • A solver enjoying the satisfaction of decoding a clue

    How to solve cryptic crosswords – the ultimate beginner’s guide

  • John 'Ludwig' Taylor composing a puzzle

    Ludwig, the Guardian’s genius new crossword setter

  • The Soup Dragon with Peter Firmin and Mother Clanger

    Crossword roundup: a flurry of Keir Starmer solutions – and some dragons

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Prize solutions

Winners of Crossword 29,530
Chris Brewis, Spalding; Franky Ashmore, Sheffield; Lorimer Mackenzie, Bonnyrigg; Teresa Barby, Bristol; Mrs G Scott, Perth
  • Empty road with tumbleweed

    Annotated solutions
    An experiment reaches the end of the road

  • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,177

    • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,171

    • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,165

    • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,159

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Genius solutions

Winner of Genius No 255
Les Brown, France

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 242

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 241

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 240

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 239

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Azed slip

  • Azed slip No 2,663

  • Azed slip No 2,659

  • Azed slip No 2,636

  • Azed slip No 2,634

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Most viewed