Puzzler Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Jun 23

• Acknowledged fine service and overbalanced (6) Crossword Clue
• Attempt on the way for lovers' meeting (5) Crossword Clue
• Avoid using free ticket? (6) Crossword Clue
• Become thinner and lighter (5) Crossword Clue
• Bigger kitchen item, reportedly (7) Crossword Clue
• Compact seed hardly empty (5) Crossword Clue
• Conquer remaining military force (9) Crossword Clue
• Crawler will not suppress poor copy (9) Crossword Clue
• Cuts a hundred pages in book (7) Crossword Clue
• Dad also holding animal (5) Crossword Clue
• Dance, openest sort (3-4) Crossword Clue
• Distance from Ghent, travelling beyond lake (6) Crossword Clue
• European city, regularly stay for refinement (6) Crossword Clue
• Festive spirit (of Ireland)? (7) Crossword Clue
• Hinders the development of daring feats (6) Crossword Clue
• Hostile to commercial poem (7) Crossword Clue
• Made tighter when deceived (5,2) Crossword Clue
• Obligation to hold record for second-in-command (6) Crossword Clue
• Obstacle taken by an athlete in his stride (6) Crossword Clue
• Peach could be inexpensive (5) Crossword Clue
• Points to, for example, composition (5) Crossword Clue
• Popular set's contribution (5) Crossword Clue
• Sailor below Birmingham venue with delicious drink (6) Crossword Clue
• Sluggishness of train, ie awful (7) Crossword Clue
• Stray movement in centilitre of clear quartz (7) Crossword Clue
• Vilify return of artist beside German river (5) Crossword Clue