The Guardian Crossword July 26 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 70 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 70 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 26 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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Start of a tennis rally (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Break in friendly relations (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Finn’s plot dividing the French and the German (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Deer meat (7)74 AcrossReveal answer → ‘To reiterate … ’ (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Comedian fine being embraced by Jeremy, half-cut (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Ex-planet, demoted in 2006 (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Online retailer (1-8)98 AcrossReveal answer → What sex does, they say (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Golf ball support (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Gallery display (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Unconventionally teach fraud (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Topiary techniques essential in rural Australia (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Osso buco base (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → President’s concealing scoundrel entertaining Royal (originally!) – they have an advantage (5,5)1011 AcrossReveal answer → One, two, or three? (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Lay out banquet, perhaps, discounting a thousand – five hundred instead (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → Neither lose nor gain (5,4)914 AcrossReveal answer → Posh Prada bag – cracking steal – one pound, finally negotiated bargain (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Soprano, endlessly irate, starts to inevitably abuse drink (7)715 AcrossReveal answer → Gold passed time inside, did examinations (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Wild adventure (8)818 AcrossReveal answer → Lazy movement of son borders on lacklustre after sulk (7)719 AcrossReveal answer → Eye affliction (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Act tour Reno – what are the odds?! (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Might this keep you to time? (10)1022 AcrossReveal answer → Sn, to a chemist (3)322 AcrossReveal answer → Baba ganoush ingredient (9)923 AcrossReveal answer → Wee anaesthetist under the influence of drug (6,3)925 AcrossReveal answer → Soothe or mitigate (7)725 AcrossReveal answer → Evenly sliced turnip cake technique (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Nation east of Mali (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Spirit without alcohol astonishingly delicious initially (5)527 AcrossReveal answer → Warship does retry manoeuvring (9)928 AcrossReveal answer →

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Dangerous tidal currents (4)41 DownReveal answer → Mostly tongue it, that’s allowed (5)51 DownReveal answer → Record holder (6)61 DownReveal answer → Wight, for one (4)42 DownReveal answer → Rude GP, Jed, erroneously made assumptions without facts (9)92 DownReveal answer → Fruity leafstalks in some crumbles (7)72 DownReveal answer → Tennis mistake (5)53 DownReveal answer → Oil up toast, dished out for robot drivers? (10)103 DownReveal answer → Prepare to publish (4)43 DownReveal answer → Compete (3)34 DownReveal answer → Expert soft touch with hot Australian knight on date (3,4)74 DownReveal answer → Sir or madam (5)54 DownReveal answer → Remains buried in structures I’d established (7)75 DownReveal answer → Disastrous drop (8)85 DownReveal answer → Iberian nation (5)56 DownReveal answer → Two tablets, maybe (4)46 DownReveal answer → Sailor’s a card! (4)46 DownReveal answer → Stinging plant (6)67 DownReveal answer → Church centre picked up rascal (5)57 DownReveal answer → Get revenge when rump consumed by diner is thrown up (9)98 DownReveal answer → Posed a question (5)512 DownReveal answer → One asking questions in RoI quits after collapsing (10)1013 DownReveal answer → Convincing, AI-created video (8)813 DownReveal answer → Full of courage, he rented a ground (9)914 DownReveal answer → Zero (7)715 DownReveal answer → Engineers: 40 patrols provided to increase security again (9)916 DownReveal answer → Drink of the gods (6)616 DownReveal answer → Superficial layer (6)617 DownReveal answer → Lady-in-waiting hauled up over case of nicked jewel (7)718 DownReveal answer → Work out, including cardio circuit exercise, principally achieving the goal (7)719 DownReveal answer → Lock site (5)519 DownReveal answer → Pleased expression (4)421 DownReveal answer → Run! Headless Egyptian corpse’s game (5)521 DownReveal answer → One thrusting into stud? (5)523 DownReveal answer → Drone, e.g. (3)324 DownReveal answer → Got wind of missing Republican leader (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Sunday, July 26, 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.