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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
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.