The Sun Crossword May 1 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword May 1 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 52 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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Across

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#

Dead trees scattered here? (6)DESERT6Across1 Run away (6)DESERT6Across1 That man's in prison room, mostly to carve wood (6)CHISEL6Across4 Hand tool with bevelled end (6)CHISEL6Across4 Nothing to change for egg producers (5)OVARY5Across9 Female reproductive gland (5)OVARY5Across9 Irreverent promises of money by current politician (7)IMPIOUS7Across10 Sacreligious (7)IMPIOUS7Across10 Place beneath loot (7)PLUNDER7Across11 Booty (7)PLUNDER7Across11 Slight colouring (5)TINGE5Across12 Some waiting expectantly for hint (5)TINGE5Across12 Internationals see if vestas work (4,7)TESTMATCHES11Across13 Games between two countries (4,7)TESTMATCHES11Across13 Metal pin with head at one end (5)RIVET5Across18 Enthrall old soldier following odd characters in raid (5)RIVET5Across18 Power of entering into another person's personality (7)EMPATHY7Across20 Surprisingly, pay them to show compassion (7)EMPATHY7Across20 Bear (7)SUSTAIN7Across22 Continue to display dirty mark on small uniform (7)SUSTAIN7Across22 Headdress of ancient Persians (5)TIARA5Across23 Headwear manufactured out of thin air, oddly, by American (5)TIARA5Across23 Terrified (6)SCARED6Across24 Son showed 20, frightened (6)SCARED6Across24 Small garden bird (6)TOMTIT6Across25 Bird — cat beginning to taunt it (6)TOMTIT6Across25

Down

ClueAnswerLettersDirection#

Sagging (6)DROOPY6Down1 My poor dog's content rearing animated cousin (6)DROOPY6Down1 Height (7)STATURE7Down2 Standing Republican's bronze, perhaps, on the outside (7)STATURE7Down2 Having a shape like the sun (5)RAYED5Down3 Provided with beams as invasion broadcast (5)RAYED5Down3 To do with the liver (7)HEPATIC7Down5 Pathetic changes regarding organ (7)HEPATIC7Down5 Become ecstatic (5)SWOON5Down6 Poles going round court faint (5)SWOON5Down6 Concentrate on hearing something (6)LISTEN6Down7 Pay attention to catalogue with space (6)LISTEN6Down7 One entertained by small blunder over first beer in part of Africa (6,5)SIERRALEONE11Down8 Country, capital Freetown (6,5)SIERRALEONE11Down8 Measure strength (of a solution) (7)TITRATE7Down14 How much to pay idiot to evaluate concentration? (7)TITRATE7Down14 Draw out (7)EXTRACT7Down15 Passage in old area of land (7)EXTRACT7Down15 Credit is repeatedly creating big trouble (6)CRISIS6Down16 Emergency (6)CRISIS6Down16 Despot's extremely testy tirade (6)TYRANT6Down17 Oppressor (6)TYRANT6Down17 Victor is getting appreciative comment for perspective (5)VISTA5Down19 Comprehensive mental view of distant time (5)VISTA5Down19 Paved area next to house (5)PATIO5Down21 Preoccupation to show terrace (5)PATIO5Down21

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