The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 May 12

• Best in everything for big Brits (3,3,2,3,4) Crossword Clue
• Bowler may be here to give evidence (6) Crossword Clue
• Cute name that is for a youngster (7) Crossword Clue
• Disparate motel with a twist in the tail? End of story! (6) Crossword Clue
• Ease with which judge accepts falsehood (6) Crossword Clue
• Embarrassed to display university degree in an outhouse (7) Crossword Clue
• Exploit flyer with imperfect tenses to get personal benefit (7,4,4) Crossword Clue
• Fill up ten forms, that's more than enough (9) Crossword Clue
• Finally enrol in crash diet mañana, got that, but not tomorrow (5) Crossword Clue
• First and last to arrive can generate conflict (6) Crossword Clue
• First couple of letters dispatched, so not here (6) Crossword Clue
• From Goethe, a tremendous play enacted here (7) Crossword Clue
• I then took odds on twenty in order to get hitched (2,3,3,4) Crossword Clue
• John is one outwardly for hire (6) Crossword Clue
• Learnt to play the horn (6) Crossword Clue
• Nightcap on vacation during jovial preparatory celebration (3,5) Crossword Clue
• One chooses shock treatment in role reversal (7) Crossword Clue
• Palestine suffering sanctions (9) Crossword Clue
• Prepared letters of support (7) Crossword Clue
• Proprietor with joiner in funny comeback (8) Crossword Clue
• Relative souper? (7) Crossword Clue
• Row about newspaper backing Panama? (6) Crossword Clue
• See 2 Crossword Clue
• Settle where stated in Oxford or Derby (8) Crossword Clue
• Silly positions must be rejected - I would (6) Crossword Clue
• Sounds like Bath perhaps being in short supply (8) Crossword Clue
• Stick poster, but not over there! (6) Crossword Clue
• Want to start eating potato (7) Crossword Clue