The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 May 16

• Against epithet for the four Beatles in private conversation (6) Crossword Clue
• Almost deceived at tea dance (8) Crossword Clue
• A survey run, and behold! (5) Crossword Clue
• Bird entered the water the far side of the pond (4) Crossword Clue
• Call to attention fifty competitors that may be drilled (8) Crossword Clue
• Charge a line of waiters has announced (6) Crossword Clue
• Clamour interrupts lengthy sermon for special service (10) Crossword Clue
• Comic part performed for three-ha'pence once (9) Crossword Clue
• Costing a bomb to be sceptical (8) Crossword Clue
• Figures and a piece of data applied to the rest of Jan (8) Crossword Clue
• Intellectual rebel has accident with car (8) Crossword Clue
• Introduce oxygen, burning part of church (7) Crossword Clue
• I stole Christmas, and grimace at church (6) Crossword Clue
• Nursing a broken knee, turn to worship now in American style (10) Crossword Clue
• Old bridge, not a tube (7) Crossword Clue
• Old soldiers have twinges crossing two rivers (7) Crossword Clue
• One greeting king is servile, not unpleasant (6) Crossword Clue
• Outstanding rule about dead fascist, as his friends called him? (6) Crossword Clue
• Ring area of the kidneys, not large (5) Crossword Clue
• School cane, a stinger, wielded across Charlie, a paradoxical creature (12,3) Crossword Clue
• Sleepers in monastery abroad losing pants (6,3) Crossword Clue
• Start off speaking with grit (4) Crossword Clue
• Start to cultivate non-native tree, its heart extracted for coffee substitute (7) Crossword Clue
• That's a threat of retaliation in chess, for example (1,4,3,3,4) Crossword Clue
• The centre of Bangor? (8) Crossword Clue
• Under compulsion, you make irregular patterns (3-3) Crossword Clue
• Use live computer image of suspect with name attached (7) Crossword Clue
• Won everything when up, having lost everything when out (7) Crossword Clue