The Guardian Crossword July 3 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 62 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 62 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 3 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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You won’t see board members taking part in this criminal bloc’s NHS fiddle (9,5)9 AcrossReveal answer → Police state can’t, without a new study of underground movement? (5,9)5 AcrossReveal answer → Abs’ composition (7,6)131 AcrossReveal answer → Writer playing along with EU (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Sow your wild ones! (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Going out on ___ (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → As corsets are spiked all over (5,2)75 AcrossReveal answer → Medium for the BBC’s Broadcasting House (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Mister in Münster (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Plunge into boiling water, as with tomatoes (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Master goldsmith’s lead file (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → One selling goods abroad (8)89 AcrossReveal answer → Swiss artist Paul (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Waistline deposit (4,6)1010 AcrossReveal answer → Is cricketer able to provide a handy means of access for consumers? (3-6)910 AcrossReveal answer → Like some wire and comments (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Ruddy good to get in a depressed state! (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → You, now (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Eatery with entertainment (6,4)1015 AcrossReveal answer → Evening: almost time to collapse (9)915 AcrossReveal answer → Department head is getting recognition? Rubbish! (9)918 AcrossReveal answer → Usually monthly payments for usually non-manual labour (8)819 AcrossReveal answer → Right wants a familiar ex-PM judged (5)519 AcrossReveal answer → Partly open, as a door (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Government leader (5,8)1321 AcrossReveal answer → Top grade rations ordered by advanced health centres (9)925 AcrossReveal answer → Gathering close to Gulf Stream (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → A cross between tense and loose, as, say, kid’s clothing is (3-4)727 AcrossReveal answer → Old king protecting (or regressing) fledgling colony (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →

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In which X often appears with a broken leg support (7)71 DownReveal answer → Row your boat with them! (4)41 DownReveal answer → Abstemious (8)82 DownReveal answer → Happy soul dancing round Ireland’s top flower (9)92 DownReveal answer → Alas and ___ (5)52 DownReveal answer → Inventor Samuel or Inspector Endeavour (5)53 DownReveal answer → Was wolf-like lecturer against journalist’s opinion piece? (5)53 DownReveal answer → Descriptor of some basins, waves and energy (5)53 DownReveal answer → TV announcer’s aide-memoire (3,4)74 DownReveal answer → Like a single draughts piece – 100 now under review (9)94 DownReveal answer → Photographer’s request (5)54 DownReveal answer → Scored, though showing signs of age! (5)55 DownReveal answer → Sulked – 50cc? (5)55 DownReveal answer → Test player, international, opens another player’s electrical store (9)96 DownReveal answer → Be an omen of (4)46 DownReveal answer → US liver (anag) – keep an eye on (7)76 DownReveal answer → Poet’s slowish to drop a name (5)57 DownReveal answer → Vichyssoise veg (4)47 DownReveal answer → Country’s introducing a Latin examination (7)78 DownReveal answer → Control – synchronise (8)811 DownReveal answer → Retiree’s travel document (3,4)713 DownReveal answer → Intervenes (5,2)714 DownReveal answer → China might be after this line-up – open secret (9)914 DownReveal answer → Refracting glass object (5)516 DownReveal answer → Billionaire accepts new car ‘hard to break in’ (9)916 DownReveal answer → Form – lesson – status – style (5)517 DownReveal answer → Maybe Titian or Turner’s main form of grinding (9)917 DownReveal answer → Island in Indonesia, east of Java (4)418 DownReveal answer → Pledge from would-be MP – dregs! (7)718 DownReveal answer → One’s place in Doris’s show? (7)720 DownReveal answer → Seize one with leader ousted in a new vote (5)522 DownReveal answer → Wrong end of the dish (5)523 DownReveal answer → Tender and even more sickly? (5)524 DownReveal answer →

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