The Guardian Crossword July 21 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 65 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 65 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 21 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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Rum and lime juice cocktail (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Stomach muscles, for short (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Servant (6)64 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Incorrect!’ (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → More or less (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Old coin of e.g. Italy or the Netherlands (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Old-school, but cool (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Nick and Henry Bird (4-4)88 AcrossReveal answer → Pink cattle pen? Not right! (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Nonetheless (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Brooding bird (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Articulated fruit is not fair (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Free lad (anag) (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Left and right wings of party turn back, collapsing into ruin (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Small record label (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Hair loss ultimately comes before anxiety (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Skilful writer (9)912 AcrossReveal answer → Are fired (sacked), being thin (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → Herald’s power decline (7)716 AcrossReveal answer → Last Greek letter (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Hearing of pub expedition, neighbours start off (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → M25, e.g. (7)719 AcrossReveal answer → Panels damaged – try pitch (8)821 AcrossReveal answer → Lover (7)721 AcrossReveal answer → Cinema guide (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Dialect reveals smooth love lives (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Assets (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Kid’s rental bike fixed (5-5)1024 AcrossReveal answer → Of gnashers (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Bottle essential parts (4)426 AcrossReveal answer → Crew strive to get leader replaced (5)527 AcrossReveal answer → Shrewd US composer making records (8)828 AcrossReveal answer →

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Stand for election (ironic) and get through all the booze (3,3)3 DownReveal answer → Tough comedian without name (8)81 DownReveal answer → In the distance (4)41 DownReveal answer → Fielding position (3-3)61 DownReveal answer → Just a second to remove top? Doubtful (4)42 DownReveal answer → Sheepherding pig in a 1995 film (4)42 DownReveal answer → Black and grey bird (7)72 DownReveal answer → A deadly sin, or a slow animal (5)53 DownReveal answer → A core island sun god (6)63 DownReveal answer → Teacher (5)53 DownReveal answer → Depend on getting in support for a music genre (7)74 DownReveal answer → Wizard at foot of elder tree (4)45 DownReveal answer → From a country on the tip of the Persian Gulf (7)75 DownReveal answer → Positive (4)45 DownReveal answer → Fig, pear almost turn out to be the possible basis of fad diet (10)106 DownReveal answer → Berkshire school (4)46 DownReveal answer → Graphic (5)56 DownReveal answer → Chestnut one replaced with ring for crop protection (6)67 DownReveal answer → Full-length pitched delivery (6)67 DownReveal answer → Good grief! (4,5)99 DownReveal answer → Grantee (anag) (7)713 DownReveal answer → Drugs defence involving college that’s associated with Houdini (10)1013 DownReveal answer → Axe (7)714 DownReveal answer → Light dessert (6)615 DownReveal answer → Word ending in ‘s’, usually (6)616 DownReveal answer → Leap for joy (5)518 DownReveal answer → Game of kiss and tell, perhaps, with time for Latin (8)819 DownReveal answer → Poet’s wife and enforcer (7)720 DownReveal answer → Tuber (anag) (5)520 DownReveal answer → Twin drying aid, lidless (6)622 DownReveal answer → Devout, bawdy and buccaneering (6)623 DownReveal answer → Ram’s a laughing-stock (4)425 DownReveal answer → Easy: massive return with little initially invested (4)426 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Tuesday, July 21, 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.