The Guardian Crossword September 4 2026 Answers
Friday puzzle · 63 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword September 4 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 63 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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14 to spray around tackle, he-man? I’m not posh, buy it! (10,7)INTIMATELY10Across
14, also Brut, set to be splashed all over (4,7)BLUE4Across
Job done – Robert is my father’s brother (4,4,5)BOBSYOURUNCLE13Across1
Wine-drinking insect, creepy-crawly (7)BEASTIE7Across1
Dromedary, eg (5)CAMEL5Across1
Pot is as hot, thrice stirred (7)HASHISH7Across5
Some earrings (5)HOOPS5Across6
‘I can’t be ___’ (5)ARSED5Across7
Cheaper fare period (7)OFFPEAK7Across8
Informal top (3)TEE3Across8
eg Manchester Ship or Grand (5)CANAL5Across9
Nincompoop (3)ASS3Across9
Not Old Spice! (4)BABY4Across10
Parched (4)ARID4Across10
Nuts cracked by trendy bankers (10)FINANCIERS10Across11
Tell anxieties freely and with relief (with ‘oneself’) (8)UNBURDEN8Across11
Wrap up, wearing 14? (6)COCOON6Across12
The world is my ___ (6)OYSTER6Across13
Underwear, inside which butt – and dangly things (8)PENDANTS8Across13
Morning oats (6)MUESLI6Across14
Opium, say, kid smuggled into country (9)FRAGRANCE9Across14
Flower remains bathed in hours of sunlight (5)DAISY5Across16
Stuck in Belfast, Irishman busy (5)ASTIR5Across17
Vine leaves with savoury filling (8)DOLMADES8Across17
Shallowest Great Lake (4)ERIE4Across19
Going west, has set out – a different way? (5-4)SOUTHEAST9Across19
Gut bacterium (1,4)ECOLI5Across21
Means of speedy communication – temperatures raised here? (7)HOTLINE7Across22
Stellenbosch country certainly not embraced by wine lover (8)CASANOVA8Across23
Tiny European principality (13)LIECHTENSTEIN13Across24
Sweet wrappers from Ouagadougou and Giza filling empty net (6)NOUGAT6Across24
As ‘Curious’, Britney Spears, is for presbyterians? (7)ANAGRAM7Across28
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Wouldn’t say this to a goose (3)BOO3Down1
Half (or a third) of a Latin dance (3)CHA3Down1
Main vessel that carries blood from the heart (5)AORTA5Down2
Charm in a second cracking magical character up (7)ENAMOUR7Down2
Scientific experts, eggheads (7)BOFFINS7Down2
Hebrew lawgiver (5)MOSES5Down3
___ Saint Laurent, fashion designer (4)YVES4Down3
Express then: green light (3-2)SAYSO5Down3
Olympic blades (5)EPEES5Down4
Mean and thoughtless (6)UNKIND6Down4
Princess seemingly enjoying orange bubble bath? (7)INFANTA7Down4
Hallucinogenic initials (3)LSD3Down5
Smarmy (8)UNCTUOUS8Down5
Canopy breaking, roof shearing off (6)AWNING6Down6
Hammered – upholstered with rattan (5)CANED5Down6
Sweetbrier – inelegant (anag) (9)EGLANTINE9Down7
Short poem on a rank 14 (3,6)HAIKARATE9Down7
Test teams heading for Pakistan, cricket, say, talks about that (13)INSPECTORATES13Down9
Value for money – lots (1,4,4)AGOODDEAL9Down10
Massive stone, part of prehistoric monument (8)MEGALITH8Down12
Young pilchard (7)SARDINE7Down15
Dark art of server, visibly in pain (9)GRIMACING9Down15
‘Turn it off and on again’ adviser (6)TECHIE6Down16
Pipe down, soon crossing new river (7)SHANNON7Down18
Slack (5)LOOSE5Down18
Old still, preserve order (7)TINTYPE7Down20
___ Redding, singer/songwriter (4)OTIS4Down20
Kitchen implement: it has inspired me to gather up last bit of fondant! (7)SPATULA7Down21
Piece noted through observations on a tangent (6)SONATA6Down22
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day (3)EEN3Down23
Of Asian citizens, fifth of which live in European country (5)UZBEK5Down25
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, September 4, 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.