Today's The Guardian Cryptic Puzzle Crossword Clues & Answers

Clues & Answers For The Guardian Cryptic

(May 4, 2026)

ACROSS

• 1. Wife desires charming women … (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 5. … valour is boring her - ordinary and primarily 'macho' (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 10. E-copy (4) - Crossword Clue
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• 11. Tale of servitude recalled in reels (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 12. One in five heading to Open are seeds (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 13. Remain on the right side of suspicious cook - porky but harmless? (5,3) - Crossword Clue
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• 14. Way to find a giant, live, and chat about man's missing head? (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 16. Censors essentially blue tale (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 17. Barnaby ousts Romeo and takes Juliet - he's a trier! (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 19. INXS provided Yates's first shoot up (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 23. Barbarian, turning good guy, with trimmed locks - he's chasing foxy type? (8) - Crossword Clue
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• 24. Move to try and cover King's naked glee after fling (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 26. Ventures boundless flair inspired by coaches (10) - Crossword Clue
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• 27. Once partner is following, beginning to introduce glimpse of billy goat (4) - Crossword Clue
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• 28. One holding up the line returning skins again? (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 29. Trailers way back, after about 5½ days travelling west (7) - Crossword Clue
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DOWN

• 2. Add in what I did here, as stated (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 3. Summit's within Worcester, centrally, elevated (5) - Crossword Clue
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• 4. Use charm to control tendency to avoid pressure (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 6. Barrier dropped to protect pupil (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 7. Toast peer performing in musical dramas (9) - Crossword Clue
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• 8. Rise up, capturing aged warrior (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 9. White dominance troubling viewers (4,9) - Crossword Clue
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• 15. Dark approaching, tenses, one male, alone at the end (5-4) - Crossword Clue
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• 18. Odd you twice caught group of students drawn in by unframed Dali (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 20. Overlooked, start off angry, swear endlessly inside (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 21. Most rewarding transposing soprano flute line (7) - Crossword Clue
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• 22. This setter's regularly upset with contrary editor's delay (6) - Crossword Clue
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• 25. Catch spots orally (5) - Crossword Clue
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