The Guardian Crossword June 12 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for June 12 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Red sauce (6,7)131 AcrossReveal answer → Detectives so worried about a former data-storage platform (13)131 AcrossReveal answer → Guns N’ Roses guitarist (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Brownish grey (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Daisy ___-Jones (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Choice (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Blur sound (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → Wakes (anag) (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Grand Prix-winning Sergio (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Six-faced figure (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Set of wooden bars cut between axes and whetstone (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Stout or beer seen regularly (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Debutante (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Cat bound to scratch head (5)512 AcrossReveal answer → Elaborate cycling honour and ring cyclist maybe accepts (9)913 AcrossReveal answer → Public opinion broadcast (3,3)613 AcrossReveal answer → Furry liar? (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Hesitant setter would back lines on article (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Energetic daughter splitting (7)716 AcrossReveal answer → Place (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Confound what could be seen as negative? (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Rich in food from shells (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → Peeling away front, disclose broken bone (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Perfect paradigm (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → Very famous cricket side totally gutted, eleven runs in 24 hours (9)921 AcrossReveal answer → Moment one of match (4-3)722 AcrossReveal answer → Summons Pope intermittently filled out? (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Totalitarian force, literarily or otherwise (7,6)1324 AcrossReveal answer → Literary genre evident in podcaster’s Athenian letters (3-2)524 AcrossReveal answer → Naughty kid is turning into fool, collapsing inwards (9)925 AcrossReveal answer → In one sense, food flipped in hot fat remains revolutionary number one (5,1,7)1326 AcrossReveal answer →

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Vessel (3)31 DownReveal answer → Quite expensive (5)51 DownReveal answer → Harpo pitches books around north London borough (9)92 DownReveal answer → Soup server (5)52 DownReveal answer → Where letters come in (7)72 DownReveal answer → Carpentry bit (5)53 DownReveal answer → Some steeplejack’s climbing record (5)53 DownReveal answer → Record (4)43 DownReveal answer → Preserved herring (6)64 DownReveal answer → I’m here to host two kings separately for cuisine (7)74 DownReveal answer → ___ bar (5)54 DownReveal answer → Avis rival (5)55 DownReveal answer → Ex-UK PM (8)85 DownReveal answer → Fostering environment created by dame and duke supporting diocese (7)75 DownReveal answer → Meaningless nonsense (5)56 DownReveal answer → Chiefly moot ‘science’, for the most part blurry? (9)96 DownReveal answer → Push for dominance (5,4)97 DownReveal answer → With time, perhaps dock material (5)57 DownReveal answer → Shoe tongue, one that’s a bit stiff? (6,7)138 DownReveal answer → Poor girl almost regrets son going back (13)139 DownReveal answer → Government-to-monarchy pay (5,4)910 DownReveal answer → Flog soot (anag) – trudge (8)812 DownReveal answer → Italian men (7)715 DownReveal answer → Fragrant plant, say, a linnet damaged (9)915 DownReveal answer → Case worn round neck (6)616 DownReveal answer → Having ditched ‘Mike’, coming into new assumed identity (9)917 DownReveal answer → Set of beliefs (5)518 DownReveal answer → Dispelling onset of ennui, inspires rising energy (7)719 DownReveal answer → Half of African country welcomes retiring setter’s large source of games? (7)720 DownReveal answer → Bounce back (4)420 DownReveal answer → Composer lowering final note causes trouble (5)522 DownReveal answer → Dog muck held up by child (5)523 DownReveal answer → Enemy (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, June 12, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.