The Guardian Crossword July 4 2026 Answers

Adventure story by 5 down (8,6)TREASURE8Across Private Eye’s regular feature devoted to pretentious writing (6,6)PSEUDS6Across Material gratifying – that’s no good (5)SATIN5Across1 ‘I will show you fear in a handful of ___’ (The Waste Land) (4)DUST4Across1 Serpentine letter (3)ESS3Across1 Wrestling hold – barber’s instrument (8)SCISSORS8Across3 Component of a flower’s corolla (5)PETAL5Across4 Decorates without one item of underwear (5)PANTS5Across4 Implement carried by the Grim Reaper (6)SCYTHE6Across5 Wine’s ‘nose’ (5)AROMA5Across6 Fruit in 7-Up (5)LIMES5Across7 Regularly retreat for period (3)ERA3Across7 Diarist Samuel (5)PEPYS5Across8 Prepare narrow section in field (5)ARENA5Across8 Third letter of the Nato alphabet (7)CHARLIE7Across9 Subject of optic readjustment (5)TOPIC5Across9 __ Sinner, tennis player (6)JANNIK6Across10 E Asian republic (5)CHINA5Across10 Sooty’s friend – chimney worker (5)SWEEP5Across11 Dangers of damaged pliers (6)PERILS6Across11 1977 album and song by Bob Marley & the Wailers (6)EXODUS6Across12 Of the countryside (6)RUSTIC6Across12 Bronzes of army vehicles king disposed of (4)TANS4Across13 Optical instruments invented by David Brewster (13)KALEIDOSCOPES13Across13 Unharmed (3,2,3,5)ALLINONEPIECE13Across14 Partly bury a kinky beast (3)YAK3Across15 __ Landy, CIA officer sympathetic to Jason Bourne? (6)PAMELA6Across16 Mount skipping: cold leg? (4)LIMB4Across17 Sophisticated evening gathering (6)SOIREE6Across17 __ Khrushchev, Soviet leader following Stalin’s death (6)NIKITA6Across18 Wanting energy, varied underwater explorers (6)DIVERS6Across19 Assistance in climbing a wall (3-2)LEGUP5Across19 Mark __, FBI official later revealed to have been ‘Deep Throat’ during Watergate (4)FELT4Across20 Fastens missing page to form (5)CLASS5Across21 London street running from Trafalgar Square to St James’s (4-4)PALLMALL8Across21 Constellation with a ‘belt’ (5)ORION5Across22 On the line (2,5)ATSTAKE7Across23 Test cricket series (3,5)THEASHES8Across24 Shape-changing spell (5)PHASE5Across24 Unit of heredity (4)GENE4Across25 Oddly missing spoiled dish (3)PIE3Across25 Swift lacking power getting worn-out (5)SEEDY5Across26 Somewhere else holding dances (5)REELS5Across27

Bond character in The World is Not Enough, played by Sophie Marceau (7,4)ELEKTRA7Down Spine-chilling (5)EERIE5Down1 Prawns the writer chopped for rascal (5)SCAMP5Down1 Part-fact, part-fiction TV (8)DOCUSOAP8Down1 Wildly popular percussion ensemble (5)STOMP5Down2 Nuance – ghost – bulb protection (5)SHADE5Down2 2005 thriller starring Matt Damon and George Clooney (7)SYRIANA7Down2 Hero met unusual proposition (7)THEOREM7Down2 Monotonous (5)SAMEY5Down3 The Berlin underground transport system (1,4)UBAHN5Down3 Can eat lychee piece tidily (6)NEATLY6Down3 Stoke is strangely apt (3)PAT3Down4 Insect’s jointed sense organ (4)PALP4Down4 Former French coin (3)SOU3Down4 Where you can find a bargain (9,4)CLEARANCESALE13Down4 Robert Louis __, author of A Child’s Garden of Verses (9)STEVENSON9Down5 Encamps occasionally to sleep (3)NAP3Down5 Clinton cat – footwear (5)SOCKS5Down5 Lad’s counterpart (4)LASS4Down5 Musician and widow of John Lennon (4,3)YOKOONO7Down6 Strikes and stuns leaving husband (5)SOCKS5Down6 Nostril, eg (7)ORIFICE7Down6 A follower of Sanatana Dharma (5)HINDU5Down7 Stamp – sometimes earless mammal (4)SEAL4Down7 Easily donned, like some shoes (4-2)SLIPON6Down8 Choose knitted top (3)OPT3Down10 Adventure story by 5 down (9)KIDNAPPED9Down11 Low islands odd characters departed (3)SAD3Down12 Be asleep (anag) – creamy Italian cheese (3,5)BELPAESE8Down13 Mean saver aged internally (7)AVERAGE7Down14 __ Costanza, mother of George in Seinfeld (7)ESTELLE7Down15 Like the king of the jungle (7)LEONINE7Down15 Captain of boat dropping small fish (6)KIPPER6Down16 From Gdańsk, eg (6)POLISH6Down16 Fastens shaky scale (5)LACES5Down17 David __, MP murdered during a constituency surgery in 2021 (5)AMESS5Down17 Club usually houses vehicle (3)BUS3Down18 Ladder steps (5)RUNGS5Down18 __ Sangakkara, retired Sri Lankan cricketer (5)KUMAR5Down19 Crystallised, like some cherries (5)GLACE5Down20 Horses taking time in pits (5)SEEDS5Down20 Usain – what he does (4)BOLT4Down21 Hotel du __, novel by Anita Brookner (3)LAC3Down22 Copy magpies on and off (3)APE3Down22 Agent is in his pyjamas (3)SPY3Down23