The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Jun 12

• Cat bound to scratch head (5) Crossword Clue
• Chiefly moot 'science', for the most part blurry? (9) Crossword Clue
• Composer lowering final note causes trouble (5) Crossword Clue
• Confound what could be seen as negative? (7) Crossword Clue
• Detectives so worried about a former data-storage platform (13) Crossword Clue
• Dispelling onset of ennui, inspires rising energy (7) Crossword Clue
• Dog muck held up by child (5) Crossword Clue
• Elaborate cycling honour and ring cyclist maybe accepts (9) Crossword Clue
• Energetic daughter splitting (7) Crossword Clue
• Fostering environment created by dame and duke supporting diocese (7) Crossword Clue
• Fragrant plant, say, a linnet damaged (9) Crossword Clue
• Half of African country welcomes retiring setter's large source of games? (7) Crossword Clue
• Harpo pitches books around north London borough (9) Crossword Clue
• Having ditched 'Mike', coming into new assumed identity (9) Crossword Clue
• Hesitant setter would back lines on article (7) Crossword Clue
• I'm here to host two kings separately for cuisine (7) Crossword Clue
• In one sense, food flipped in hot fat remains revolutionary number one (5,1,7) Crossword Clue
• Literary genre evident in podcaster's Athenian letters (3-2) Crossword Clue
• Naughty kid is turning into fool, collapsing inwards (9) Crossword Clue
• Peeling away front, disclose broken bone (7) Crossword Clue
• Poor girl almost regrets son going back (13) Crossword Clue
• Set of wooden bars cut between axes and whetstone (9) Crossword Clue
• Shoe tongue, one that's a bit stiff? (6,7) Crossword Clue
• Some steeplejack's climbing record (5) Crossword Clue
• Stout or beer seen regularly (5) Crossword Clue
• Summons Pope intermittently filled out? (5) Crossword Clue
• Very famous cricket side totally gutted, eleven runs in 24 hours (9) Crossword Clue
• With time, perhaps dock material (5) Crossword Clue