The Sun Crossword May 1 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 52 clues from the The Sun Crossword for May 1 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.

Also solved on May 1

Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Dead trees scattered here? (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Run away (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → That man's in prison room, mostly to carve wood (6)64 AcrossReveal answer → Hand tool with bevelled end (6)64 AcrossReveal answer → Nothing to change for egg producers (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Female reproductive gland (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Irreverent promises of money by current politician (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Sacreligious (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Place beneath loot (7)711 AcrossReveal answer → Booty (7)711 AcrossReveal answer → Slight colouring (5)512 AcrossReveal answer → Some waiting expectantly for hint (5)512 AcrossReveal answer → Internationals see if vestas work (4,7)1113 AcrossReveal answer → Games between two countries (4,7)1113 AcrossReveal answer → Metal pin with head at one end (5)518 AcrossReveal answer → Enthrall old soldier following odd characters in raid (5)518 AcrossReveal answer → Power of entering into another person's personality (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Surprisingly, pay them to show compassion (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Bear (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Continue to display dirty mark on small uniform (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Headdress of ancient Persians (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Headwear manufactured out of thin air, oddly, by American (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Terrified (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Son showed 20, frightened (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Small garden bird (6)625 AcrossReveal answer → Bird — cat beginning to taunt it (6)625 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

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ClueLetters#Answer
Sagging (6)61 DownReveal answer → My poor dog's content rearing animated cousin (6)61 DownReveal answer → Height (7)72 DownReveal answer → Standing Republican's bronze, perhaps, on the outside (7)72 DownReveal answer → Having a shape like the sun (5)53 DownReveal answer → Provided with beams as invasion broadcast (5)53 DownReveal answer → To do with the liver (7)75 DownReveal answer → Pathetic changes regarding organ (7)75 DownReveal answer → Become ecstatic (5)56 DownReveal answer → Poles going round court faint (5)56 DownReveal answer → Concentrate on hearing something (6)67 DownReveal answer → Pay attention to catalogue with space (6)67 DownReveal answer → One entertained by small blunder over first beer in part of Africa (6,5)118 DownReveal answer → Country, capital Freetown (6,5)118 DownReveal answer → Measure strength (of a solution) (7)714 DownReveal answer → How much to pay idiot to evaluate concentration? (7)714 DownReveal answer → Draw out (7)715 DownReveal answer → Passage in old area of land (7)715 DownReveal answer → Credit is repeatedly creating big trouble (6)616 DownReveal answer → Emergency (6)616 DownReveal answer → Despot's extremely testy tirade (6)617 DownReveal answer → Oppressor (6)617 DownReveal answer → Victor is getting appreciative comment for perspective (5)519 DownReveal answer → Comprehensive mental view of distant time (5)519 DownReveal answer → Paved area next to house (5)521 DownReveal answer → Preoccupation to show terrace (5)521 DownReveal answer →

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue from the The Sun crossword published on Friday, May 1, 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.