The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 May 21

• A right-beginning, dotted-letter-including alphabet (6) Crossword Clue
• Backup part of database liable to corruption (9) Crossword Clue
• Beast of burden returned to castle (7) Crossword Clue
• Bible teaching wrongly maligns Eve (10) Crossword Clue
• Challenging former lover on stage (8) Crossword Clue
• Donates, as replacing 4, 6 and 15 (5) Crossword Clue
• Dropping dead, wrote frantically (6,3) Crossword Clue
• E … e (4) Crossword Clue
• Fascist leader controlled Houston with rumba master general (9,6) Crossword Clue
• For example, Keats and Yeats (or not) (7) Crossword Clue
• Fresher report of any toilet more sullied (8) Crossword Clue
• Gone wild with axes splitting something needed for fire (6) Crossword Clue
• Gordon's starter presented to massive foody? (11) Crossword Clue
• Heretics are punished for unfaithful acts (11) Crossword Clue
• Huge honour to sit on banks of Seine (5) Crossword Clue
• International waters still surrounded by dumb-asses (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Just as orgasm prompts poem by Yeats … (3,6,6) Crossword Clue
• Light's non-binding energy (4) Crossword Clue
• Like Top Gun pilot's taxiing speed (approximately) (5) Crossword Clue
• Playing bingo, the French are mean (7) Crossword Clue
• Provide detailed account of quite miserable passage (7) Crossword Clue
• Re-entering language course (9) Crossword Clue
• Sadness as building terminally fire-damaged (5) Crossword Clue
• Sea-sick seabird from China? (7) Crossword Clue
• See 25 Crossword Clue
• Slight temperature dropping off with cool hormone (7) Crossword Clue
• Take end from communion wafer - on reflection, an exaltation! (7) Crossword Clue
• That man follows backwash of river froth (6) Crossword Clue
• … wrongly read note by misfortunate Keats (7) Crossword Clue
• You might slip on this bats blood (6,4) Crossword Clue