The Guardian Crossword July 3 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 62 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword July 3 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 62 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#
You won’t see board members taking part in this criminal bloc’s NHS fiddle (9,5)BLINDFOLD9Across Police state can’t, without a new study of underground movement? (5,9)PLATE5Across Abs’ composition (7,6)STOMACHMUSCLE13Across1 Writer playing along with EU (7)ANGELOU7Across1 Sow your wild ones! (4)OATS4Across1 Going out on ___ (5)ALIMB5Across5 As corsets are spiked all over (5,2)LACEDUP7Across5 Medium for the BBC’s Broadcasting House (5)RADIO5Across7 Mister in Münster (4)HERR4Across8 Plunge into boiling water, as with tomatoes (5)SCALD5Across8 Master goldsmith’s lead file (5)GRASP5Across9 One selling goods abroad (8)EXPORTER8Across9 Swiss artist Paul (4)KLEE4Across9 Waistline deposit (4,6)LOVEHANDLE10Across10 Is cricketer able to provide a handy means of access for consumers? (3-6)CANOPENER9Across10 Like some wire and comments (6)BARBED6Across12 Ruddy good to get in a depressed state! (5)AGLOW5Across13 You, now (6)SOLVER6Across14 Eatery with entertainment (6,4)SUPPERCLUB10Across15 Evening: almost time to collapse (9)NIGHTFALL9Across15 Department head is getting recognition? Rubbish! (9)DISCREDIT9Across18 Usually monthly payments for usually non-manual labour (8)SALARIES8Across19 Right wants a familiar ex-PM judged (5)RATED5Across19 Partly open, as a door (4)AJAR4Across20 Government leader (5,8)FIRSTMINISTER13Across21 Top grade rations ordered by advanced health centres (9)SANATORIA9Across25 Gathering close to Gulf Stream (5)FRILL5Across26 A cross between tense and loose, as, say, kid’s clothing is (3-4)TAXFREE7Across27 Old king protecting (or regressing) fledgling colony (7)HERONRY7Across28

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In which X often appears with a broken leg support (7)ALGEBRA7Down1 Row your boat with them! (4)OARS4Down1 Abstemious (8)TEETOTAL8Down2 Happy soul dancing round Ireland’s top flower (9)GLADIOLUS9Down2 Alas and ___ (5)ALACK5Down2 Inventor Samuel or Inspector Endeavour (5)MORSE5Down3 Was wolf-like lecturer against journalist’s opinion piece? (5)LOPED5Down3 Descriptor of some basins, waves and energy (5)TIDAL5Down3 TV announcer’s aide-memoire (3,4)CUECARD7Down4 Like a single draughts piece – 100 now under review (9)UNCROWNED9Down4 Photographer’s request (5)SMILE5Down4 Scored, though showing signs of age! (5)LINED5Down5 Sulked – 50cc? (5)MOPED5Down5 Test player, international, opens another player’s electrical store (9)CAPACITOR9Down6 Be an omen of (4)BODE4Down6 US liver (anag) – keep an eye on (7)SURVEIL7Down6 Poet’s slowish to drop a name (5)DANTE5Down7 Vichyssoise veg (4)LEEK4Down7 Country’s introducing a Latin examination (7)PERUSAL7Down8 Control – synchronise (8)REGULATE8Down11 Retiree’s travel document (3,4)BUSPASS7Down13 Intervenes (5,2)STEPSIN7Down14 China might be after this line-up – open secret (9)WORCESTER9Down14 Refracting glass object (5)PRISM5Down16 Billionaire accepts new car ‘hard to break in’ (9)GATECRASH9Down16 Form – lesson – status – style (5)CLASS5Down17 Maybe Titian or Turner’s main form of grinding (9)ATTRITION9Down17 Island in Indonesia, east of Java (4)BALI4Down18 Pledge from would-be MP – dregs! (7)DEPOSIT7Down18 One’s place in Doris’s show? (7)DISPLAY7Down20 Seize one with leader ousted in a new vote (5)ANNEX5Down22 Wrong end of the dish (5)TORTE5Down23 Tender and even more sickly? (5)OFFER5Down24

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, July 3, 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.