The Guardian Crossword July 18 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 75 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 75 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 18 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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ClueLetters#Answer
Cricket all-rounder who plays for Leicestershire and England (5,5)5 AcrossReveal answer → Expect, with optimism (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Word following ‘butterfly’, ‘air’ or ‘steal a’ (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Get a move on, driver! (4,2,2)83 AcrossReveal answer → Selfish concierge to (mostly) reform (10)104 AcrossReveal answer → Fried pancake of grated potato (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → An engine in The Railway Series and in Starlight Express? (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → US online news and opinion site since 1995 (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Bangs, like thunder (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Versatile umpire that shows some guts (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → The demonym for people from Indiana (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Away! you are an ___, you are an ___’ (Much Ado about Nothing) (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Nut turner (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Italian football club based at the San Siro (1,1,5)79 AcrossReveal answer → At the beginning, given a second shandy, you’re talkative (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Provincial (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → For the audience, checks pavement edges (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Emerging butterfly (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Aviation pioneer and first woman to fly across the Atlantic (6,7)1311 AcrossReveal answer → Go by (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → What you use to dry fluttering owlets, largely (5)512 AcrossReveal answer → Sample from calypso, largely describing the sun (5)514 AcrossReveal answer → World as a community (6,7)1314 AcrossReveal answer → James __, US publisher whose name became an expression of surprise and exasperation (6,7)1314 AcrossReveal answer → Touring Melton, scratching bottom, finding somewhere to stay (5)515 AcrossReveal answer → Paper, pencils etc not moving, we hear (10)1016 AcrossReveal answer → Chopper coat (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → First in a movie franchise starring Bruce Willis (3,4)718 AcrossReveal answer → Porcupine spike (5)519 AcrossReveal answer → Soft leather from female deer (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → Ascetic in Hinduism (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → In the offing (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Study of mysterious fliers (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Expert on a bird of prey (8)824 AcrossReveal answer → Teal-like shade (4)425 AcrossReveal answer →

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Singer whose hits include Dangerous Woman and 7 Rings (6,6)6 DownReveal answer → Steffi, Chris and Martina, in opening stages, needing racket (4)41 DownReveal answer → East Sussex seaside town (8)81 DownReveal answer → Bear-like marsupial (5)51 DownReveal answer → One who’s honoured after day ends, did you say? (6)62 DownReveal answer → Dame Meera __, star of Goodness Gracious Me (4)42 DownReveal answer → Shopping centre (5)52 DownReveal answer → Las ___ Canarias (5)52 DownReveal answer → A little pachyderm is feeling uncomfortable (4)43 DownReveal answer → Where a bus does this (5)53 DownReveal answer → A golf club – or Tommy Vercetti’s first mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City? (4,4)83 DownReveal answer → Sloth etc (4)44 DownReveal answer → New World buzzard (6,7)134 DownReveal answer → Lillian __, silent era actor (4)44 DownReveal answer → Stratford-based theatrical outfit (3)35 DownReveal answer → Hannah __, public intellectual who coined the phrase ‘the banality of evil’ (6)65 DownReveal answer → On the radio, ape is member of armed militia (9)95 DownReveal answer → Dotty dance? (5)55 DownReveal answer → City in Cyprus (7)76 DownReveal answer → Missing tail, sewer rat on tour in liquid with distinctive smell (4,5)96 DownReveal answer → Australian footballer and national captain (3,4)77 DownReveal answer → First of all, sonny, install new kitchen fixture for washing-up (4)47 DownReveal answer → Mosaic piece (4)47 DownReveal answer → Presidential son convicted of tax offences (6,5)118 DownReveal answer → Luanda’s country (6)68 DownReveal answer → Not finishing braised bananas somewhere in the Balkans (6)611 DownReveal answer → The nickname of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley? (4,4)812 DownReveal answer → Relax with some icelollies (4)413 DownReveal answer → Peter __, medieval French philosopher remembered as the lover of Héloïse (7)713 DownReveal answer → Methodist (8)813 DownReveal answer → For starters, serving of salad onions is acceptable (2-2)414 DownReveal answer → Locks, in a stable, chief that can be heard (4)415 DownReveal answer → Backfiring (sporting?) error (3,4)715 DownReveal answer → Hymn usually sung as part of the Morning Prayer (2,4)615 DownReveal answer → Rum, whisky etc. (6)616 DownReveal answer → __ Cliff, overlooked by the South West Coast Path in Cornwall (4)417 DownReveal answer → Passover bread (5)518 DownReveal answer → Character in Frozen, based in part on Andersen’s The Snow Queen (4)419 DownReveal answer → Creamy white (5)520 DownReveal answer → Foundling (4)421 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.