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The Guardian Crossword July 18 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 75 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword July 18 2026 answers. The Saturday puzzle has 75 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Cricket all-rounder who plays for Leicestershire and England (5,5)REHAN5Across Expect, with optimism (4)HOPE4Across1 Word following ‘butterfly’, ‘air’ or ‘steal a’ (4)KISS4Across1 Get a move on, driver! (4,2,2)STEPONIT8Across3 Selfish concierge to (mostly) reform (10)EGOCENTRIC10Across4 Fried pancake of grated potato (5)ROSTI5Across5 An engine in The Railway Series and in Starlight Express? (5)RUSTY5Across6 US online news and opinion site since 1995 (5)SALON5Across6 Bangs, like thunder (5)CLAPS5Across7 Versatile umpire that shows some guts (5)ILEUM5Across8 The demonym for people from Indiana (7)HOOSIER7Across8 ‘Away! you are an ___, you are an ___’ (Much Ado about Nothing) (3)ASS3Across8 Nut turner (7)SPANNER7Across9 Italian football club based at the San Siro (1,1,5)ACMILAN7Across9 At the beginning, given a second shandy, you’re talkative (5)GASSY5Across9 Provincial (5)LOCAL5Across10 For the audience, checks pavement edges (5)KERBS5Across10 Emerging butterfly (5)IMAGO5Across11 Aviation pioneer and first woman to fly across the Atlantic (6,7)AMELIAEARHART13Across11 Go by (6)ELAPSE6Across12 What you use to dry fluttering owlets, largely (5)TOWEL5Across12 Sample from calypso, largely describing the sun (5)SOLAR5Across14 World as a community (6,7)GLOBALVILLAGE13Across14 James __, US publisher whose name became an expression of surprise and exasperation (6,7)GORDONBENNETT13Across14 Touring Melton, scratching bottom, finding somewhere to stay (5)MOTEL5Across15 Paper, pencils etc not moving, we hear (10)STATIONERY10Across16 Chopper coat (6)ENAMEL6Across17 First in a movie franchise starring Bruce Willis (3,4)DIEHARD7Across18 Porcupine spike (5)QUILL5Across19 Soft leather from female deer (7)DOESKIN7Across20 Ascetic in Hinduism (5)SADHU5Across21 In the offing (5)AFOOT5Across22 Study of mysterious fliers (7)UFOLOGY7Across23 Expert on a bird of prey (8)FALCONER8Across24 Teal-like shade (4)CYAN4Across25

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Singer whose hits include Dangerous Woman and 7 Rings (6,6)ARIANA6Down Steffi, Chris and Martina, in opening stages, needing racket (4)SCAM4Down1 East Sussex seaside town (8)HASTINGS8Down1 Bear-like marsupial (5)KOALA5Down1 One who’s honoured after day ends, did you say? (6)KNIGHT6Down2 Dame Meera __, star of Goodness Gracious Me (4)SYAL4Down2 Shopping centre (5)PLAZA5Down2 Las ___ Canarias (5)ISLAS5Down2 A little pachyderm is feeling uncomfortable (4)ACHY4Down3 Where a bus does this (5)STOPS5Down3 A golf club – or Tommy Vercetti’s first mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City? (4,4)FOURIRON8Down3 Sloth etc (4)SINS4Down4 New World buzzard (6,7)TURKEYVULTURE13Down4 Lillian __, silent era actor (4)GISH4Down4 Stratford-based theatrical outfit (3)RSC3Down5 Hannah __, public intellectual who coined the phrase ‘the banality of evil’ (6)ARENDT6Down5 On the radio, ape is member of armed militia (9)GUERRILLA9Down5 Dotty dance? (5)POLKA5Down5 City in Cyprus (7)NICOSIA7Down6 Missing tail, sewer rat on tour in liquid with distinctive smell (4,5)ROSEWATER9Down6 Australian footballer and national captain (3,4)SAMKERR7Down7 First of all, sonny, install new kitchen fixture for washing-up (4)SINK4Down7 Mosaic piece (4)TILE4Down7 Presidential son convicted of tax offences (6,5)HUNTERBIDEN11Down8 Luanda’s country (6)ANGOLA6Down8 Not finishing braised bananas somewhere in the Balkans (6)SERBIA6Down11 The nickname of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley? (4,4)IRONDUKE8Down12 Relax with some icelollies (4)LOLL4Down13 Peter __, medieval French philosopher remembered as the lover of Héloïse (7)ABELARD7Down13 Methodist (8)WESLEYAN8Down13 For starters, serving of salad onions is acceptable (2-2)SOSO4Down14 Locks, in a stable, chief that can be heard (4)MANE4Down15 Backfiring (sporting?) error (3,4)OWNGOAL7Down15 Hymn usually sung as part of the Morning Prayer (2,4)TEDEUM6Down15 Rum, whisky etc. (6)LIQUOR6Down16 __ Cliff, overlooked by the South West Coast Path in Cornwall (4)MAER4Down17 Passover bread (5)MATZO5Down18 Character in Frozen, based in part on Andersen’s The Snow Queen (4)ELSA4Down19 Creamy white (5)IVORY5Down20 Foundling (4)WAIF4Down21

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.