The Guardian Crossword September 4 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 63 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 63 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for September 4 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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14 to spray around tackle, he-man? I’m not posh, buy it! (10,7)10 AcrossReveal answer → 14, also Brut, set to be splashed all over (4,7)4 AcrossReveal answer → Job done – Robert is my father’s brother (4,4,5)131 AcrossReveal answer → Wine-drinking insect, creepy-crawly (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Dromedary, eg (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Pot is as hot, thrice stirred (7)75 AcrossReveal answer → Some earrings (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → ‘I can’t be ___’ (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Cheaper fare period (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → Informal top (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → eg Manchester Ship or Grand (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Nincompoop (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Not Old Spice! (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Parched (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Nuts cracked by trendy bankers (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Tell anxieties freely and with relief (with ‘oneself’) (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Wrap up, wearing 14? (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → The world is my ___ (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Underwear, inside which butt – and dangly things (8)813 AcrossReveal answer → Morning oats (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Opium, say, kid smuggled into country (9)914 AcrossReveal answer → Flower remains bathed in hours of sunlight (5)516 AcrossReveal answer → Stuck in Belfast, Irishman busy (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Vine leaves with savoury filling (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Shallowest Great Lake (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → Going west, has set out – a different way? (5-4)919 AcrossReveal answer → Gut bacterium (1,4)521 AcrossReveal answer → Means of speedy communication – temperatures raised here? (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Stellenbosch country certainly not embraced by wine lover (8)823 AcrossReveal answer → Tiny European principality (13)1324 AcrossReveal answer → Sweet wrappers from Ouagadougou and Giza filling empty net (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → As ‘Curious’, Britney Spears, is for presbyterians? (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Wouldn’t say this to a goose (3)31 DownReveal answer → Half (or a third) of a Latin dance (3)31 DownReveal answer → Main vessel that carries blood from the heart (5)52 DownReveal answer → Charm in a second cracking magical character up (7)72 DownReveal answer → Scientific experts, eggheads (7)72 DownReveal answer → Hebrew lawgiver (5)53 DownReveal answer → ___ Saint Laurent, fashion designer (4)43 DownReveal answer → Express then: green light (3-2)53 DownReveal answer → Olympic blades (5)54 DownReveal answer → Mean and thoughtless (6)64 DownReveal answer → Princess seemingly enjoying orange bubble bath? (7)74 DownReveal answer → Hallucinogenic initials (3)35 DownReveal answer → Smarmy (8)85 DownReveal answer → Canopy breaking, roof shearing off (6)66 DownReveal answer → Hammered – upholstered with rattan (5)56 DownReveal answer → Sweetbrier – inelegant (anag) (9)97 DownReveal answer → Short poem on a rank 14 (3,6)97 DownReveal answer → Test teams heading for Pakistan, cricket, say, talks about that (13)139 DownReveal answer → Value for money – lots (1,4,4)910 DownReveal answer → Massive stone, part of prehistoric monument (8)812 DownReveal answer → Young pilchard (7)715 DownReveal answer → Dark art of server, visibly in pain (9)915 DownReveal answer → ‘Turn it off and on again’ adviser (6)616 DownReveal answer → Pipe down, soon crossing new river (7)718 DownReveal answer → Slack (5)518 DownReveal answer → Old still, preserve order (7)720 DownReveal answer → ___ Redding, singer/songwriter (4)420 DownReveal answer → Kitchen implement: it has inspired me to gather up last bit of fondant! (7)721 DownReveal answer → Piece noted through observations on a tangent (6)622 DownReveal answer → Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day (3)323 DownReveal answer → Of Asian citizens, fifth of which live in European country (5)525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, September 4, 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.