The Guardian Crossword June 12 2026 Answers
Friday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword June 12 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 64 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.
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Red sauce (6,7)TOMATOKETCHUP13Across1
Detectives so worried about a former data-storage platform (13)VIDEOCASSETTE13Across1
Guns N’ Roses guitarist (5)SLASH5Across1
Brownish grey (5)TAUPE5Across6
Daisy ___-Jones (5)EDGAR5Across7
Choice (5)ELECT5Across8
Blur sound (7)BRITPOP7Across8
Wakes (anag) (5)ASKEW5Across9
Grand Prix-winning Sergio (5)PEREZ5Across9
Six-faced figure (4)CUBE4Across10
Set of wooden bars cut between axes and whetstone (9)XYLOPHONE9Across10
Stout or beer seen regularly (5)OBESE5Across11
Debutante (8)NEWCOMER8Across11
Cat bound to scratch head (5)OUNCE5Across12
Elaborate cycling honour and ring cyclist maybe accepts (9)EMBROIDER9Across13
Public opinion broadcast (3,3)VOXPOP6Across13
Furry liar? (6)WEASEL6Across14
Hesitant setter would back lines on article (7)DITHERY7Across14
Energetic daughter splitting (7)DRIVING7Across16
Place (8)LOCATION8Across17
Confound what could be seen as negative? (7)NONPLUS7Across18
Rich in food from shells (4)EGGY4Across19
Peeling away front, disclose broken bone (7)OSSICLE7Across20
Perfect paradigm (5)IDEAL5Across21
Very famous cricket side totally gutted, eleven runs in 24 hours (9)LEGENDARY9Across21
Moment one of match (4-3)KICKOFF7Across22
Summons Pope intermittently filled out? (5)PAGES5Across23
Totalitarian force, literarily or otherwise (7,6)THOUGHTPOLICE13Across24
Literary genre evident in podcaster’s Athenian letters (3-2)SCIFI5Across24
Naughty kid is turning into fool, collapsing inwards (9)IMPLOSION9Across25
In one sense, food flipped in hot fat remains revolutionary number one (5,1,7)AFTERAFASHION13Across26
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Vessel (3)TUB3Down1
Quite expensive (5)STEEP5Down1
Harpo pitches books around north London borough (9)ISLINGTON9Down2
Soup server (5)LADLE5Down2
Where letters come in (7)MAILBOX7Down2
Carpentry bit (5)AUGER5Down3
Some steeplejack’s climbing record (5)ELPEE5Down3
Record (4)TAPE4Down3
Preserved herring (6)KIPPER6Down4
I’m here to host two kings separately for cuisine (7)COOKERY7Down4
___ bar (5)SPACE5Down4
Avis rival (5)HERTZ5Down5
Ex-UK PM (8)THATCHER8Down5
Fostering environment created by dame and duke supporting diocese (7)SEEDBED7Down5
Meaningless nonsense (5)HOKUM5Down6
Chiefly moot ‘science’, for the most part blurry? (9)ECONOMICS9Down6
Push for dominance (5,4)POWERPLAY9Down7
With time, perhaps dock material (5)TWEED5Down7
Shoe tongue, one that’s a bit stiff? (6,7)OXFORDENGLISH13Down8
Poor girl almost regrets son going back (13)RETROGRESSING13Down9
Government-to-monarchy pay (5,4)CIVILLIST9Down10
Flog soot (anag) – trudge (8)FOOTSLOG8Down12
Italian men (7)SIGNORI7Down15
Fragrant plant, say, a linnet damaged (9)EGLANTINE9Down15
Case worn round neck (6)LOCKET6Down16
Having ditched ‘Mike’, coming into new assumed identity (9)INCOGNITO9Down17
Set of beliefs (5)CREDO5Down18
Dispelling onset of ennui, inspires rising energy (7)STAMINA7Down19
Half of African country welcomes retiring setter’s large source of games? (7)OLYMPIA7Down20
Bounce back (4)ECHO4Down20
Composer lowering final note causes trouble (5)GRIEF5Down22
Dog muck held up by child (5)POOCH5Down23
Enemy (3)FOE3Down23
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, June 12, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.