This crossword No. 17358 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 Dec 2025 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 17358 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Upbeat : JAUNTY
4-across – Strangeness – or something strange : ODDITY
8-across – Come around again : RECUR
9-across – Body kneader : MASSEUR
10-across – Self-centred person : EGOTIST
11-across – Style that recreates the past : RETRO
12-across – Russian abstract painter : KANDINSKY
17-across – Small night-flier : OWLET
19-across – Book – guardedness : RESERVE
21-across – This runs alongside canals : TOWPATH
22-across – Present,e.g. : TENSE
23-across – Havoc : MAYHEM
24-across – Causing horror and disgust : GRISLY
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – CI sweater? : JERSEY
2-down – Reveal a Traitor perhaps : UNCLOAK
3-down – Bones of the ankles and feet : TARSI
5-down – e.g. Atacama and Great Victoria : DESERTS
6-down – ___ gas – unreactive : INERT
7-down – Plant – a worry : YARROW
9-down – Respected head of family : MATRIARCH
13-down – Person with obsessive interest – helmet? : NUTCASE
14-down – Underpants : YFRONTS
15-down – Shakespeare’s lowest character? : BOTTOM
16-down – Unconventional belief : HERESY
18-down – Humble : LOWLY
20-down – Drunken woodland god : SATYR
This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.