The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2025 Jun 09

• Accountant with car on hilltop Crossword Clue
• Author making way round lake with boy turning up holding hands, at first (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Best of the bunch? (3,6) Crossword Clue
• Broke right away, left high and dry (7) Crossword Clue
• Chess move, by the way (2,7) Crossword Clue
• Children: a bone of contention (5) Crossword Clue
• Contrite traveller coming in, dropping a bit of rubbish (9) Crossword Clue
• Cut short a game with partners from all quarters (7) Crossword Clue
• Damp smell I detect at first (5) Crossword Clue
• Dramatist featured in Swinburne's biography, on reflection (5) Crossword Clue
• Drink up at the King's (5) Crossword Clue
• Freedom that's tolerated - or excess (7) Crossword Clue
• Fruit from Romanian garden (8,6) Crossword Clue
• He may recommend Veuve Cliquot at river to one in ambush? (9) Crossword Clue
• It doesn't come as much of a blow (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Kitchen unfinished on 1588 vessel (7) Crossword Clue
• Man-eater with writer in cut (8) Crossword Clue
• Metal pot cooked state tree (8) Crossword Clue
• Oil hostilities cut short by mufti's decree (5) Crossword Clue
• Pipe valley running through Britain (5) Crossword Clue
• Prince with class next to Lamp-post singer (6,6) Crossword Clue
• Sailing Spanish waters, generally (2,3,4) Crossword Clue
• Scrap of shelter after half-time (5) Crossword Clue
• Seabirds and golfer harassed former WI captain (8,6) Crossword Clue
• Short debut in top league (7) Crossword Clue
• Should mean the end of most of the dry season (5) Crossword Clue
• Tanner wastes Palm Sunday taking 24 hours off (3,4) Crossword Clue
• Whirlwind Frank? (7) Crossword Clue