The Guardian Crossword June 26 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 60 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 60 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for June 26 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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Bans recitals – where this is played? (4,8)121 AcrossReveal answer → Competed in a bee (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Intimidatory ploy (5,6)115 AcrossReveal answer → ___ de Lune (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Game with an oval ball (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Dry – slender – OK – refined – subtle (4)47 AcrossReveal answer → Capable of losing (8)88 AcrossReveal answer → In ___ (Nirvana album) (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Owl, dick or flycatcher? (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Sherlock Holmes enemy Colonel Sebastian ___ (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Old President leading America a dance (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Australian working with Australian in support for Nasa employee (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Coffee without the kick (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Went down the Cresta carrying child’s protective headgear? (4,3)711 AcrossReveal answer → South American or Greek character offering little of profit (7)712 AcrossReveal answer → Source of light remains current in plant (4,6)1013 AcrossReveal answer → Inch – sleazebag (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → Knitted item (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Ready to complain after leader’s ousted (4)415 AcrossReveal answer → Not to mention (3,5)816 AcrossReveal answer → Thin slip of metal, wood, etc, used to fill in space or to adjust parts (4)417 AcrossReveal answer → School subject that has its problems (11)1118 AcrossReveal answer → Go to bring in a salver (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Alluring? Happen to have success with leading man (not love) (4-6)1019 AcrossReveal answer → A lot of mud, intensely gleaming (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → No longer suppresses scorn – UK’s struggling (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Moved fast after active harbour regressed, becoming degenerate (9)925 AcrossReveal answer → Describing birth name in any way? Not entirely (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Wild shamrock Portuguese islands twice cut down, reducing unnecessary quantities (7,5)1227 AcrossReveal answer →

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Basalt cracked with ice in chilly water (6,3)91 DownReveal answer → 7ac formation (5)51 DownReveal answer → ‘The Sheep-Pig’ (4)41 DownReveal answer → Mum permits paddling here? (8)82 DownReveal answer → Demoted planet (5)52 DownReveal answer → ‘Ossie’s going to ___, his knees have gone all trembly’ (7)72 DownReveal answer → You might have a yen to go to this country (5)53 DownReveal answer → Vegetable, cold, resistant to the bite (5)53 DownReveal answer → Raring to go (5)53 DownReveal answer → ‘You’re on!’ (3,1,4)84 DownReveal answer → Vegetable skill – I fail at a crucial moment (9)94 DownReveal answer → Sign between Virgo and Scorpio (5)54 DownReveal answer → Presley limp (anag) – tree with oblong serrated leaves (8,3)115 DownReveal answer → Admired pair about to study carbon (6)65 DownReveal answer → Check for fit (5)55 DownReveal answer → Laciest clan (anag) – squeezing exercises (11)116 DownReveal answer → Delete Times article finally (5)56 DownReveal answer → Applications supporting section of stage work (6)67 DownReveal answer → Immediately agreeing to bring in Conservative (2,4)68 DownReveal answer → Where we are (3,5)810 DownReveal answer → Posy (7)712 DownReveal answer → Metal? You mined rocks, gaining mass (9)914 DownReveal answer → Bird on the Wire songwriter Leonard (5)515 DownReveal answer → I note that woman with sex-appeal and gold – recipient of legacy? (9)916 DownReveal answer → Lose traction (4)417 DownReveal answer → They help one view fix over Church elevating Eastern philosophy (5-3)817 DownReveal answer → Parts swapped in Latin song from part of Italy (6)618 DownReveal answer → Concerned with Muslim leader rejecting an outcome (6)620 DownReveal answer → Beautiful spot to get hot Japanese food (6)621 DownReveal answer → Only rich seen around this theatre? (5)523 DownReveal answer → No place to steal from subordinate (5)524 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, June 26, 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.