Left at home finally gutting fish

The answer to “Left at home finally gutting fish” in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword is LING — a 4-letter word. It most recently appeared in the The Telegraph Cryptic crossword on September 2, 2026, a Wednesday puzzle, at 6-Down. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Left at home finally gutting fish” answer

LING (4 letters)

Reveal the solution one letter at a time with the tiles above if you'd rather nudge yourself toward it than see the whole word at once. Just want it outright? The answer is LING.

What does LING mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of LING is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

When else has “Left at home finally gutting fish” appeared?

The Telegraph Cryptic reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

September 2, 2026 (most recent) → LING. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

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