The Sun Cryptic Crossword 3 November 2026 answers

This puzzle has 26 clues. Select any clue to see its solution and every other puzzle it has appeared in.

26 clues13×13 gridShortest here · EYELongest here · TENEMENTS

The completed grid

26 entries, 14 across and 12 down. Reveal to fill in every solution.

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All 26 clues

Vetting criminal and Earl for portrait (8)8 letters Decline old cereal (4)4 letters Computer network cut by English prisoner (8)8 letters Soon clerical dignitary scratches head (4)4 letters Cultivated rose for love god (4)4 letters More than one mongoose gets together around damaged ark (8)8 letters No team rejected inventive American (6)6 letters Credit facility for line (6)6 letters Role is ace with new supporter (8)8 letters Top primate getting cross (4)4 letters Pure, bubbly state (4)4 letters Chaps rue terrible acquisition (8)8 letters Get naked hosting smoker (4)4 letters Arrogant males by river (8)8 letters Took no notice of ridge on pants (7)7 letters Revolutionary observed eating Penny's accompaniment for haggis (5)5 letters Apartment blocks can be shelters sheltering European chaps (9)9 letters Looker's ego reported (3)3 letters Hamper the French under hut (7)7 letters Exult in Yamal finally stopping Messi, according to some (5)5 letters Oddball focussed on city of London area? (9)9 letters Primary school tests? I'm not sure answer is "Orange" (7)7 letters Son writes middle section of operas for old poet (7)7 letters Somehow alter warning (5)5 letters Pains in abdomen, initially, and thorax — temperature's dropped (5)5 letters Snapshot of long story with introduction missing (3)3 letters

The shortest answer in the 3 November 2026 The Sun Cryptic Crossword is EYE and the longest is TENEMENTS. Looking for an older grid? Every puzzle is filed in the The Sun Cryptic Crossword archive.