Cautious of administering a drug as a boy(7 letters)
Below is the answer to the crossword clue “Cautious of administering a drug as a boy”, taken from the Evening Standard's Cryptic crossword on 9th December 2025.
The answer is
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Other clues that solve to GUARDED
The same answer often re-appears with different clues over the years. Tap a clue to open its answer page, or the date to jump straight to that day's puzzle.
- #13 across Discreet informal name for a drug product (7) 22nd July 2026
- #13 across Protected (7) 31st January 2026
- #23 down Cautious of administering a drug as a boy (7) 9th December 2025
- #19 down Cautious (7) 13th July 2025
- #24 across Protected (7) 18th December 2024
- #24 across Protected (7) 1st May 2024
- #5 down Wary (7) 29th February 2024
- #13 across Protected (7) 11th July 2023
- #25 across Protected (7) 17th August 2022
- #6 down Protected (7) 2nd November 2021
- #13 across Discreet informal name for a drug product (7) 15th June 2021
- #13 across Protected (7) 28th September 2020
- #23 down Cautious of administering a drug as a boy (7) 6th July 2020
- #6 down Careful to take some guns when an adder's loose (7) 16th July 2019
- #19 down Cautious (7) 16th April 2019
- #24 across Protected (7) 10th September 2018
- #24 across Protected (7) 19th February 2018
- #5 down Wary (7) 1st February 2018
More clues from this puzzle
Other clues from the same Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on 9th December 2025. Tap Reveal to see an answer, or click the clue to open its own page.
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- #2 down How one might defend being devious about a ticket seller (7)
- #3 across Role player (5)
- #4 down Calm and collected when out of control? (4)
- #5 down King never crowned, one imagines (6)
- #6 down Truly it can be hard to say (5)
- #7 down Philosophical about the calamitous cost when one is taken in (5)
- #8 across Such charges can be dropped (5)
- #9 down For each childless person (3)
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- #11 across The French love him (3)