The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Jun 05

• A large tree or plant (6) Crossword Clue
• A pale cast? Just the opposite (4) Crossword Clue
• Author named in expression of surprise (7) Crossword Clue
• Author's a mug, used to drink a lot (5) Crossword Clue
• Backed team's long shot (3) Crossword Clue
• Befuddled brain taking in article after article from part of Asia (7) Crossword Clue
• Blind faith in a male deity? Just the opposite (5) Crossword Clue
• Celia's name-change? (5) Crossword Clue
• Dorothy's largely wrong steer, as usual (8) Crossword Clue
• English author sharing pronouncement with state capital (6) Crossword Clue
• Fish farm, so to speak (4) Crossword Clue
• Floating object waterbird's almost turned over (4) Crossword Clue
• Italian playwright's storyline mostly about Ireland, oddly (10) Crossword Clue
• Kind of court that proceeds by leaps and bounds (8) Crossword Clue
• Launch minimal review of restaurant (8) Crossword Clue
• Lewis, Oxford don and writer (7) Crossword Clue
• Like part of ancient Greece that's accessible by flights? (5) Crossword Clue
• Novel part of proof putting off learner at first (4) Crossword Clue
• Old fighter happy I reversed schedule (9) Crossword Clue
• Old or modern artist endlessly showing up (4) Crossword Clue
• People as created initially in books (10) Crossword Clue
• Prior to game of cards, a cut (7) Crossword Clue
• Process yielding mixed results is what you seek (8) Crossword Clue
• Republican in charge producing offensive poster (5) Crossword Clue
• Robust half of comic duo (5) Crossword Clue
• Serious English or Irish novelist (6) Crossword Clue
• Short piece of text in suitable American structure (9) Crossword Clue
• Squeeze using spades in dummy (5) Crossword Clue
• Test data? Assesses excessively (9) Crossword Clue
• The writer's penning line as children's author (5) Crossword Clue
• Tragic heroine, as Dickinson, say, quaintly concludes (4) Crossword Clue
• Trying afresh, male gets absorbed in parental task (9) Crossword Clue
• Write for newspaper about position of left wing (6) Crossword Clue