The Guardian Crossword July 4 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 88 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 88 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 4 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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Adventure story by 5 down (8,6)8 AcrossReveal answer → Private Eye’s regular feature devoted to pretentious writing (6,6)6 AcrossReveal answer → Material gratifying – that’s no good (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → ‘I will show you fear in a handful of ___’ (The Waste Land) (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Serpentine letter (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Wrestling hold – barber’s instrument (8)83 AcrossReveal answer → Component of a flower’s corolla (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Decorates without one item of underwear (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Implement carried by the Grim Reaper (6)65 AcrossReveal answer → Wine’s ‘nose’ (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Fruit in 7-Up (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Regularly retreat for period (3)37 AcrossReveal answer → Diarist Samuel (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Prepare narrow section in field (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Third letter of the Nato alphabet (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Subject of optic readjustment (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → __ Sinner, tennis player (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → E Asian republic (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Sooty’s friend – chimney worker (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Dangers of damaged pliers (6)611 AcrossReveal answer → 1977 album and song by Bob Marley & the Wailers (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Of the countryside (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Bronzes of army vehicles king disposed of (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Optical instruments invented by David Brewster (13)1313 AcrossReveal answer → Unharmed (3,2,3,5)1314 AcrossReveal answer → Partly bury a kinky beast (3)315 AcrossReveal answer → __ Landy, CIA officer sympathetic to Jason Bourne? (6)616 AcrossReveal answer → Mount skipping: cold leg? (4)417 AcrossReveal answer → Sophisticated evening gathering (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → __ Khrushchev, Soviet leader following Stalin’s death (6)618 AcrossReveal answer → Wanting energy, varied underwater explorers (6)619 AcrossReveal answer → Assistance in climbing a wall (3-2)519 AcrossReveal answer → Mark __, FBI official later revealed to have been ‘Deep Throat’ during Watergate (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Fastens missing page to form (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → London street running from Trafalgar Square to St James’s (4-4)821 AcrossReveal answer → Constellation with a ‘belt’ (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → On the line (2,5)723 AcrossReveal answer → Test cricket series (3,5)824 AcrossReveal answer → Shape-changing spell (5)524 AcrossReveal answer → Unit of heredity (4)425 AcrossReveal answer → Oddly missing spoiled dish (3)325 AcrossReveal answer → Swift lacking power getting worn-out (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Somewhere else holding dances (5)527 AcrossReveal answer →

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Bond character in The World is Not Enough, played by Sophie Marceau (7,4)7 DownReveal answer → Spine-chilling (5)51 DownReveal answer → Prawns the writer chopped for rascal (5)51 DownReveal answer → Part-fact, part-fiction TV (8)81 DownReveal answer → Wildly popular percussion ensemble (5)52 DownReveal answer → Nuance – ghost – bulb protection (5)52 DownReveal answer → 2005 thriller starring Matt Damon and George Clooney (7)72 DownReveal answer → Hero met unusual proposition (7)72 DownReveal answer → Monotonous (5)53 DownReveal answer → The Berlin underground transport system (1,4)53 DownReveal answer → Can eat lychee piece tidily (6)63 DownReveal answer → Stoke is strangely apt (3)34 DownReveal answer → Insect’s jointed sense organ (4)44 DownReveal answer → Former French coin (3)34 DownReveal answer → Where you can find a bargain (9,4)134 DownReveal answer → Robert Louis __, author of A Child’s Garden of Verses (9)95 DownReveal answer → Encamps occasionally to sleep (3)35 DownReveal answer → Clinton cat – footwear (5)55 DownReveal answer → Lad’s counterpart (4)45 DownReveal answer → Musician and widow of John Lennon (4,3)76 DownReveal answer → Strikes and stuns leaving husband (5)56 DownReveal answer → Nostril, eg (7)76 DownReveal answer → A follower of Sanatana Dharma (5)57 DownReveal answer → Stamp – sometimes earless mammal (4)47 DownReveal answer → Easily donned, like some shoes (4-2)68 DownReveal answer → Choose knitted top (3)310 DownReveal answer → Adventure story by 5 down (9)911 DownReveal answer → Low islands odd characters departed (3)312 DownReveal answer → Be asleep (anag) – creamy Italian cheese (3,5)813 DownReveal answer → Mean saver aged internally (7)714 DownReveal answer → __ Costanza, mother of George in Seinfeld (7)715 DownReveal answer → Like the king of the jungle (7)715 DownReveal answer → Captain of boat dropping small fish (6)616 DownReveal answer → From Gdańsk, eg (6)616 DownReveal answer → Fastens shaky scale (5)517 DownReveal answer → David __, MP murdered during a constituency surgery in 2021 (5)517 DownReveal answer → Club usually houses vehicle (3)318 DownReveal answer → Ladder steps (5)518 DownReveal answer → __ Sangakkara, retired Sri Lankan cricketer (5)519 DownReveal answer → Crystallised, like some cherries (5)520 DownReveal answer → Horses taking time in pits (5)520 DownReveal answer → Usain – what he does (4)421 DownReveal answer → Hotel du __, novel by Anita Brookner (3)322 DownReveal answer → Copy magpies on and off (3)322 DownReveal answer → Agent is in his pyjamas (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, July 4, 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.