The Guardian Cryptic Crossword June 4 2026 Answers (6/4/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword June 4, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
9A	Old fighter happy I reversed schedule
10A	The writer’s penning line as children’s author
11A	Blind faith in a male deity? Just the opposite
12A	Trying afresh, male gets absorbed in parental task
13A	Prior to game of cards, a cut
14A	Author named in expression of surprise
17A	Republican in charge producing offensive poster
18A	Backed team’s long shot
19A	Celia’s name-change?
21A	Lewis, Oxford don and writer
23A	Befuddled brain taking in article after article from part of Asia
24A	Short piece of text in suitable American structure
26A	Squeeze using spades in dummy
28A	Robust half of comic duo
29A	Test data? Assesses excessively
1D	Old or modern artist endlessly showing up
2D	Kind of court that proceeds by leaps and bounds
3D	Italian playwright’s storyline mostly about Ireland, oddly
4D	Serious English or Irish novelist
5D	Dorothy’s largely wrong steer, as usual
6D	Novel part of proof putting off learner at first
7D	A large tree or plant
8D	Floating object waterbird’s almost turned over
13D	Like part of ancient Greece that’s accessible by flights?
15D	People as created initially in books
16D	Author’s a mug, used to drink a lot
18D	Process yielding mixed results is what you seek
20D	Launch minimal review of restaurant
22D	Write for newspaper about position of left wing
23D	English author sharing pronouncement with state capital
24D	A pale cast? Just the opposite
25D	Fish farm, so to speak
27D	Tragic heroine, as Dickinson, say, quaintly concludes

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