The Guardian Crossword July 21 2026 Answers
Tuesday puzzle · 65 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword July 21 2026 answers. The Tuesday puzzle has 65 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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Click a clue for every answer it has ever hadClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Rum and lime juice cocktail (6)MOJITO6Across1
Stomach muscles, for short (3)ABS3Across1
Servant (6)SKIVVY6Across4
‘Incorrect!’ (5)FALSE5Across4
More or less (5)ABOUT5Across7
Old coin of e.g. Italy or the Netherlands (5)DUCAT5Across8
Old-school, but cool (5)RETRO5Across8
Nick and Henry Bird (4-4)HALFINCH8Across8
Pink cattle pen? Not right! (5)CORAL5Across9
Nonetheless (7)HOWEVER7Across9
Brooding bird (3)HEN3Across9
Articulated fruit is not fair (4)UGLY4Across10
Free lad (anag) (7)FEDERAL7Across10
Left and right wings of party turn back, collapsing into ruin (10)BANKRUPTCY10Across11
Small record label (5)INDIE5Across11
Hair loss ultimately comes before anxiety (6)STRESS6Across12
Skilful writer (9)WORDSMITH9Across12
Are fired (sacked), being thin (8)RAREFIED8Across14
Herald’s power decline (7)PRECEDE7Across16
Last Greek letter (5)OMEGA5Across17
Hearing of pub expedition, neighbours start off (7)INQUEST7Across18
M25, e.g. (7)ORBITAL7Across19
Panels damaged – try pitch (8)TRIPTYCH8Across21
Lover (7)SQUEEZE7Across21
Cinema guide (5)USHER5Across22
Dialect reveals smooth love lives (6)PATOIS6Across23
Assets (6)ESTATE6Across23
Kid’s rental bike fixed (5-5)ANKLEBITER10Across24
Of gnashers (6)DENTAL6Across24
Bottle essential parts (4)GUTS4Across26
Crew strive to get leader replaced (5)EIGHT5Across27
Shrewd US composer making records (8)ARCHIVES8Across28
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Stand for election (ironic) and get through all the booze (3,3)RUN3Down
Tough comedian without name (8)GANGSTER8Down1
In the distance (4)AFAR4Down1
Fielding position (3-3)MIDOFF6Down1
Just a second to remove top? Doubtful (4)IFFY4Down2
Sheepherding pig in a 1995 film (4)BABE4Down2
Black and grey bird (7)JACKDAW7Down2
A deadly sin, or a slow animal (5)SLOTH5Down3
A core island sun god (6)ANUBIS6Down3
Teacher (5)TUTOR5Down3
Depend on getting in support for a music genre (7)BHANGRA7Down4
Wizard at foot of elder tree (4)ACER4Down5
From a country on the tip of the Persian Gulf (7)KUWAITI7Down5
Positive (4)SURE4Down5
Fig, pear almost turn out to be the possible basis of fad diet (10)GRAPEFRUIT10Down6
Berkshire school (4)ETON4Down6
Graphic (5)VIVID5Down6
Chestnut one replaced with ring for crop protection (6)CLOCHE6Down7
Full-length pitched delivery (6)YORKER6Down7
Good grief! (4,5)HOLYSMOKE9Down9
Grantee (anag) (7)REAGENT7Down13
Drugs defence involving college that’s associated with Houdini (10)ESCAPOLOGY10Down13
Axe (7)HATCHET7Down14
Light dessert (6)MOUSSE6Down15
Word ending in ‘s’, usually (6)PLURAL6Down16
Leap for joy (5)EXULT5Down18
Game of kiss and tell, perhaps, with time for Latin (8)SKITTLES8Down19
Poet’s wife and enforcer (7)WHITMAN7Down20
Tuber (anag) (5)BRUTE5Down20
Twin drying aid, lidless (6)RINGER6Down22
Devout, bawdy and buccaneering (6)PIRACY6Down23
Ram’s a laughing-stock (4)BUTT4Down25
Easy: massive return with little initially invested (4)GLIB4Down26
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Tuesday, July 21, 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.