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The Guardian Crossword May 3 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 52 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for May 3 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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Across

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Fruit in many smoothies (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Damsel embracing another, ultimately a hard thing to bear (6)64 AcrossReveal answer → Periodic payment (7)74 AcrossReveal answer → Teaching degree? Resign about student coverage at night (3-5)86 AcrossReveal answer → City that’s home to the oldest Chinatown in Europe (9)98 AcrossReveal answer → Brewed beverage (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Discussion item admitting river forms line on map (6)69 AcrossReveal answer → Basic building block (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Pub and brewery finally introducing it in the area (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → Period that’s palaeolithic etc (5,3)811 AcrossReveal answer → Protest followed by explicit part of the population (11)1111 AcrossReveal answer → Added amount (9)913 AcrossReveal answer → Opposite of Caesar, J? (7)715 AcrossReveal answer → Self-indulgent acts (3,5)817 AcrossReveal answer → Reader initially gripped by book once more – it’s a good buy (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Person again troubled resident of city-state (11)1118 AcrossReveal answer → Grizzly animal (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Dig in!’ (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Safety device that may be subject to regular testing (4,5)922 AcrossReveal answer → Song-writer seldom getting confused with it (8)822 AcrossReveal answer → Gave way under pressure (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Religious writer to ridicule leaders of Unitarian Adventists (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Pepper grinders (5)524 AcrossReveal answer → Completed challenge with summary (8)824 AcrossReveal answer → Items often furrowed before end of intense look over the shelves? (6)625 AcrossReveal answer →

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Romantic song (6)61 DownReveal answer → Account with money? Grand, though not really in the post (6)61 DownReveal answer → Filled pasta (7)72 DownReveal answer → Vandalised phone-box: one’s beginning to anticipate anti-foreigner sentiment (10)102 DownReveal answer → Three feet (4)43 DownReveal answer → Police vehicle: evidence of damage seen around one in four? (5,3)83 DownReveal answer → Easily riled (5-8)134 DownReveal answer → Retract intelligence on origin of huge lottery (8)84 DownReveal answer → Hawaiian, e.g. (8)85 DownReveal answer → Minor yet somehow a great crime (8)85 DownReveal answer → Uncredited part in a film (5)56 DownReveal answer → Flag of European country getting trimmed (4)47 DownReveal answer → One who may give you a hand? (6)67 DownReveal answer → Component of extravagant oyster trifles (4)48 DownReveal answer → Contemptuous (8)812 DownReveal answer → Run a diocese, at first followed by member of clergy (10)1012 DownReveal answer → Was home, excited to support good TV programme? (4,4)813 DownReveal answer → Popular time to go round a French swamp (8)814 DownReveal answer → Pedicurist’s target (7)714 DownReveal answer → Echo effect (6)615 DownReveal answer → Debris in a toaster (6)616 DownReveal answer → Decline instantly: one’s worried over dodgy bar (8)816 DownReveal answer → Vision-related (5)518 DownReveal answer → Party, upsetting for us, stinks (6)619 DownReveal answer → Growing business (4)420 DownReveal answer → Material to support attack in backgammon (4)420 DownReveal answer → Limits to general use adhesive (4)421 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Sunday, May 3, 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.