The Guardian Crossword June 23 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 60 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword June 23 2026 answers. The Tuesday puzzle has 60 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#
Grape ivy, busy Lizzie and mother-in-law’s tongue, eg (11)HOUSEPLANTS11Across1 Hank of yarn (5)SKEIN5Across1 Fifty minutes past the hour (5)TENTO5Across6 Bungling (5)INEPT5Across7 ___ Premier (Welsh football league) (5)CYMRU5Across8 Term in use possibly with no end of churches for Christian, say (8)MUTINEER8Across8 Lays out, in the boxing ring (5)KAYOS5Across9 Appropriate to public ceremony (4-5)FULLDRESS9Across9 Duck in middle of canal looked for when sun is out (6)NOUGHT6Across9 Ricotta source (3)EWE3Across10 Colourful band from special city snubbed president (8)SPECTRUM8Across10 Dimwit put many off after scrubbing article (6)NUMPTY6Across11 Online troublemaker (5)TROLL5Across11 Supermarket among restaurants stricken in flood, maybe (7,8)NATURALDISASTER15Across12 Geometric art form of the 1920s and ‘30s (3,4)ARTDECO7Across13 Jostles with a joint (6)ELBOWS6Across14 Declare condition (5)STATE5Across15 Artistic assembly of glass, marble etc (6)MOSAIC6Across15 Amusements (not half) for one working in a suit (5)DIVER5Across16 Saxophonist Coleman or Golden Globe winner Sally (7)HAWKINS7Across18 Sprainable joint (5)ANKLE5Across20 Andorra terribly treated in an experimental way? (2,5,3,5)BYTRIALANDERROR15Across20 Meadow (3)LEA3Across21 Insurable activity held in extra velodrome (6)TRAVEL6Across21 Liable to launch lawsuits (9)LITIGIOUS9Across22 Circling resort, abandon speed (8)DISPATCH8Across23 People counter (6,5)CENSUSTAKER11Across24 One engaged in break, perhaps, gets to move with little energy (6)POTTER6Across25 Anglican bishop into sound tipple (8)SANCERRE8Across26

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Perform better than leader of party cutting expenditure (7)OUTPLAY7Down1 Lollipop leftover (5)STICK5Down1 Lake Turkana locale (5)KENYA5Down2 Cheap outlet with 70s music and a French name losing money (10)DISCOUNTER10Down2 Portrait or landscape, perhaps (3)OIL3Down2 Sport seen in Jarrow earlier (4)WEAR4Down3 Hostile force (5)ENEMY5Down3 ‘If something might go wrong, it will’ (4,3)SODSLAW7Down3 Office network administrator (5)ITPRO5Down4 Dim bore concocted placatory statement (7)BROMIDE7Down4 From the late 1930s, perhaps (3-3)PREWAR6Down4 It’s a plus (5)ASSET5Down5 Performing individual with singular object of concern? (2,4,4)ONONESMIND10Down5 ‘We’re excluded’ (5)NOTUS5Down5 Auckland’s Rainbow’s End or Queensland’s Dreamworld, eg (5,4)THEMEPARK9Down6 Revolutionary face encapsulating a US territory (4)GUAM4Down6 Not made to measure (3-3-5)OFFTHESHELF11Down7 Husband in trim overturned longing for Indian food (7)CHUTNEY7Down7 Oh! Receivers! (anag) – epic poetry (6,5)HEROICVERSE11Down8 Cut-off water in the floodplain (5,4)OXBOWLAKE9Down12 Paul S’s partner in Paris to go over unknown site with a collection? (3,7)ARTGALLERY10Down13 Tar was here at sea to locate marine bird (10)SHEARWATER10Down14 AI gloat (anag) – earache (7)OTALGIA7Down16 In the circs (2,2,2)ASITIS6Down17 Islander clearly disheartened facing start of public disorder (7)CYPRIOT7Down17 Duke defending a theologian, one given to temporary obsession? (7)FADDIST7Down18 Agrees with Italian and French priests (not English) (7)CONCURS7Down19 Shaky, Scilly or Western (5)ISLES5Down19 Sanction over Eton excluding outsiders (4)VETO4Down22 You can dig it (3)ORE3Down23 Decline feature in a kitchen (4)SINK4Down24

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Tuesday, June 23, 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.