The Guardian Crossword July 8 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 8 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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Across

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Children’s party game (8,5)131 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Fish’, ‘good’, ‘bash’ – one of those four-letter words (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Alternative to champers or prosecco (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → ‘And while we’re on the ___ … ’ (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Bumptious, crude or reckless (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Man, say, placing one page between the sheets? (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → ___ to differ (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Running bird (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → First word of many a Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Face wiper (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Muppet Amin confined to more cheerful block? (10,5)159 AcrossReveal answer → Pacific islander (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → Brilliant music? (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Puddle (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Old banger taking the biscuit with breakdown truck, would you say? (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Give generously (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Charity jog (3,3)614 AcrossReveal answer → Dash a cigar off that’s poisonous (3,6)914 AcrossReveal answer → Some villain, a director, the lowest of the low (5)515 AcrossReveal answer → Irritable and hot in Windy City (5)516 AcrossReveal answer → Batch – cut short (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Friendliness (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Consider framing suggestion with old pictures (9)918 AcrossReveal answer → Eyewitness (9)920 AcrossReveal answer → Intervals including notes a perfect fifth apart horrifying singers? (3,5)820 AcrossReveal answer → Badge (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Kiss and Wham on tour? (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Line of improvement (8,5)1322 AcrossReveal answer → One’s disempowered when had by those, Spooner’s Margaret, Temple and MacLaine? (5,3,7)1525 AcrossReveal answer → Hog radiator, say, when first cut off (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Arsenal’s feeble passing through channel (9)927 AcrossReveal answer →

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Runner in European capital concerned with section going uphill (5)51 DownReveal answer → Petal (anag) (5)51 DownReveal answer → Short-legged friend of the late monarch (5)51 DownReveal answer → Not together (5)52 DownReveal answer → Bad speller in theory, extremely anxious (7)72 DownReveal answer → Essex city (8-2-3)132 DownReveal answer → Long speech finally wrapped up by wizard (4)43 DownReveal answer → Give false information about (8)83 DownReveal answer → US spelling for workroom clamps (5)53 DownReveal answer → Persistent, dull pain (4)44 DownReveal answer → Bergen’s country (6)64 DownReveal answer → Red colour a revolutionary adopts (4)44 DownReveal answer → Use needles (4)45 DownReveal answer → Noted progression without cabbage being mentioned? (5,5)105 DownReveal answer → Initials indicating that details will later be added (3)35 DownReveal answer → Boat driver? (8,5)136 DownReveal answer → Very anxious when building house? (8,2)106 DownReveal answer → Russian government (7)77 DownReveal answer → Keen I observe, nothing to lose in school (7)77 DownReveal answer → Pattern has Dorothy frolicking in spring, did you say? (3,6)98 DownReveal answer → Plain character gets surly, I gathered (4,6)1012 DownReveal answer → Exultant (8)812 DownReveal answer → Sound unit (7)713 DownReveal answer → Photo briefly capturing mother, teacher and a princess (5,5)1013 DownReveal answer → Miss payment claiming one pocketed by singers (4,2,3)914 DownReveal answer → Saturated (6)615 DownReveal answer → Actress and singer also going up in smoke (7)717 DownReveal answer → Bird of prey (5)518 DownReveal answer → One defined by ‘scummy fellow’? (7)719 DownReveal answer → Iran (anag) (4)419 DownReveal answer → Growly dog (5)522 DownReveal answer → Stumpy tail – ‘s pruned (4)423 DownReveal answer → Test of popular opinion to the north (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Wednesday, July 8, 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.