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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
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

About this puzzle

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.