This crossword No. 30031 clues and answers were published on Fri 12 Jun 2026 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 30031 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Detectives so worried about a former data-storage platform : VIDEOCASSETTE
10-across – Set of wooden bars cut between axes and whetstone : XYLOPHONE
11-across – Stout or beer seen regularly : OBESE
12-across – Cat bound to scratch head : OUNCE
13-across – Elaborate cycling honour and ring cyclist maybe accepts : EMBROIDER
14-across – Hesitant setter would back lines on article : DITHERY
16-across – Energetic daughter splitting : DRIVING
18-across – Confound what could be seen as negative? : NONPLUS
20-across – Peeling away front,disclose broken bone : OSSICLE
21-across – Very famous cricket side totally gutted,eleven runs in 24 hours : LEGENDARY
23-across – Summons Pope intermittently filled out? : PAGES
24-across – Literary genre evident in podcaster’s Athenian letters : SCIFI
25-across – Naughty kid is turning into fool,collapsing inwards : IMPLOSION
26-across – In one sense,food flipped in hot fat remains revolutionary number one : AFTERAFASHION
All Down Clues and Answers:
2-down – Harpo pitches books around north London borough : ISLINGTON
3-down – Some steeplejack’s climbing record : ELPEE
4-down – I’m here to host two kings separately for cuisine : COOKERY
5-down – Fostering environment created by dame and duke supporting diocese : SEEDBED
6-down – Chiefly moot ‘science’,for the most part blurry? : ECONOMICS
7-down – With time,perhaps dock material : TWEED
8-down – Shoe tongue,one that’s a bit stiff? : OXFORDENGLISH
9-down – Poor girl almost regrets son going back : RETROGRESSING
15-down – Fragrant plant,say,a linnet damaged : EGLANTINE
17-down – Having ditched ‘Mike’,coming into new assumed identity : INCOGNITO
19-down – Dispelling onset of ennui,inspires rising energy : STAMINA
20-down – Half of African country welcomes retiring setter’s large source of games? : OLYMPIA
22-down – Composer lowering final note causes trouble : GRIEF
23-down – Dog muck held up by child : POOCH
This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.