The Guardian Crossword June 5 2026 Answers
Friday puzzle · 57 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword June 5 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 57 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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Country without a monarch (8)REPUBLIC8Across1
Folk tale (4)MYTH4Across5
Great expanse of water (5)OCEAN5Across9
Old fighter happy I reversed schedule (9)GLADIATOR9Across9
Aquatic red-billed bird (7)MOORHEN7Across10
The writer’s penning line as children’s author (5)MILNE5Across10
No jack of all trades! (3-5,4)ONETRICKPONY12Across11
Blind faith in a male deity? Just the opposite (5)DOGMA5Across11
Trying afresh, male gets absorbed in parental task (9)REHEARING9Across12
Prior to game of cards, a cut (7)ABRIDGE7Across13
Catcher of fish (6)ANGLER6Across13
Evergreen shrub (6)MYRTLE6Across14
Author named in expression of surprise (7)DICKENS7Across14
Republican in charge producing offensive poster (5)TROLL5Across17
Hesitate (6-6)SHILLYSHALLY12Across17
Backed team’s long shot (3)SIX3Across18
Celia’s name-change? (5)ALICE5Across19
Or trees (anag) (7)RESTORE7Across20
Lewis, Oxford don and writer (7)CARROLL7Across21
Typed (5)KEYED5Across21
I’m off! (2-2)TATA4Across22
Binge eating (8)GLUTTONY8Across23
Befuddled brain taking in article after article from part of Asia (7)ARABIAN7Across23
Short piece of text in suitable American structure (9)APPARATUS9Across24
Squeeze using spades in dummy (5)TWIST5Across26
Robust half of comic duo (5)HARDY5Across28
Test data? Assesses excessively (9)OVERRATES9Across29
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Old or modern artist endlessly showing up (4)AGED4Down1
Chess bird? (4)ROOK4Down1
Kind of court that proceeds by leaps and bounds (8)KANGAROO8Down2
Old German coin (7)PFENNIG7Down2
Drink (4,3,5)BENDTHEELBOW12Down3
Italian playwright’s storyline mostly about Ireland, oddly (10)PIRANDELLO10Down3
__ pentameter, poetic rhythm (6)IAMBIC6Down4
Serious English or Irish novelist (6)STERNE6Down4
Dorothy’s largely wrong steer, as usual (8)ORTHODOX8Down5
Novel part of proof putting off learner at first (4)EMMA4Down6
Boor – hooray! (5)YAHOO5Down6
A large tree or plant (6)ALPINE6Down7
Hive hummer? (8)HONEYBEE8Down7
Worker’s garment (6,6)DONKEYJACKET12Down8
Floating object waterbird’s almost turned over (4)BERG4Down8
Classical Indian language (8)SANSKRIT8Down12
Like part of ancient Greece that’s accessible by flights? (5)ATTIC5Down13
Call when hunting fox (5-2)TALLYHO7Down15
People as created initially in books (10)CHARACTERS10Down15
Author’s a mug, used to drink a lot (5)STEIN5Down16
On top (2,4)ASWELL6Down16
Process yielding mixed results is what you seek (8)SOLUTION8Down18
Stein (anag) (5)INSET5Down18
Whirlpool (4)EDDY4Down19
Launch minimal review of restaurant (8)INITIATE8Down20
Write for newspaper about position of left wing (6)REPORT6Down22
English author sharing pronouncement with state capital (6)AUSTEN6Down23
A pale cast? Just the opposite (4)ASHY4Down24
Fish farm, so to speak (4)RAYS4Down25
Tragic heroine, as Dickinson, say, quaintly concludes (4)TESS4Down27
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, June 5, 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.