The Guardian Crossword June 18 2026 Answers
Thursday puzzle · 63 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword June 18 2026 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 63 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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Last of ham we taste mixed up – in this? (4,4)MEAT4Across
… gets quarter (12)GAINS5Across
Charitable (13)PHILANTHROPIC13Across1
Serving of tea (5)CUPPA5Across1
Frank discussions in a trade-off digested (7)SINATRA7Across5
Great British Bake Off covering (5)APRON5Across6
It’s used to stand tall (5)STILT5Across7
Wackos (5)KOOKS5Across8
Cause of obsessive anxiety (7)BUGBEAR7Across8
Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument (5)CELLO5Across9
Deodorant type (5)SPRAY5Across9
Clue about bulb, essentially? (5)TULIP5Across9
A few missing artist in essence, US president (9)ROOSEVELT9Across10
Boasted – aircraft personnel (4)CREW4Across10
See Yorkshire flower near Sheff U v Sheff W, say (5,5)LOCALDERBY10Across11
Den casts (anag) – decorative counterpoints to melodies (8)DESCANTS8Across11
Tyrant (6)DESPOT6Across13
Land idols in trouble? (5,6)SOLIDGROUND11Across14
Computer key deployed after an error (6)DELETE6Across14
Galore (2,6)INSPADES8Across17
US actress, how might she cause a stir in speech? (11)WITHERSPOON11Across18
Wafer – emcee (4)HOST4Across19
Groovy chassis on a jalopy (4)HEAP4Across21
Swimming stroke – teem (5)CRAWL5Across21
Sense of outrageous theatre initially dressing Australian in drag (10)SNOOZEFEST10Across22
Whoppers (7)PORKIES7Across22
Pecuniary allowance (8,5)SPENDINGMONEY13Across24
Boy in Blue artist … (9)CONSTABLE9Across25
Team getting stuffed in flop, I give up! (5,2)SCREWIT7Across27
Close, as Mexican dog in East London? (7)AIRLESS7Across28
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Western Samoa discontented here with poor supply (5,5)HORSE5Down
Pluck item from the wine rack? (6)BOTTLE6Down1
Alehouse (3)PUB3Down1
Port holders (5)CASKS5Down1
Survivor brightened up again having caught cold (6)RELICT6Down2
‘Gimme five!’ (5)UPTOP5Down2
Entrance (7)INGRESS7Down2
Rough tongue in nude rogue (10)UNPOLISHED10Down3
Former (5)PRIOR5Down3
Dark, Stone and Middle? (4)AGES4Down3
Gobbling – and gobbled – bird (6)TURKEY6Down4
Oktoberfest music (5)POLKA5Down4
Rebound from a surface (8)RICOCHET8Down5
Animated solver’s clue? (6,3)SCOOBYDOO9Down5
Impatient (5)ANTSY5Down5
Tower-like structure supporting cables (5)PYLON5Down6
Christmas movie cut, cut for Christmas! (4)NOEL4Down6
Hawker steals present from that place (8)THEREOUT8Down7
Boat’s lookout location (5,4)CROWSNEST9Down7
A cap in use tilted badly, level up (8)ALTITUDE8Down8
15th- or 16th-century accompaniments to breeches (9)CODPIECES9Down10
Styled thus (2-6)SOCALLED8Down12
That said in support of stinker, describing nicer comic 23 down (6,4)PRINCEIGOR10Down13
Chance gone, lots being wasted? (6,3)LOSINGBET9Down15
David Cameron or James Bond, say (7)ETONIAN7Down15
Expression of embarrassment while burying head in whelk shell (2,6)AWSHUCKS8Down16
___ bowling (3-3)TENPIN6Down16
Riddle from Sphinx’s first teacher (8)STRAINER8Down17
Prince Harry’s autobiography – term in 16d (5)SPARE5Down18
Little bird in leak (6)PETITE6Down19
___ and proper (4)PRIM4Down20
Force once applied to opening in sink blockage (6)STASIS6Down20
It’s up there! (3)SKY3Down23
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Thursday, June 18, 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.