The Guardian Crossword July 8 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword July 8 2026 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 64 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#
Children’s party game (8,5)POSTMANSKNOCK13Across1 ‘Fish’, ‘good’, ‘bash’ – one of those four-letter words (9)TETRAGRAM9Across1 Alternative to champers or prosecco (4)CAVA4Across1 ‘And while we’re on the ___ … ’ (5)TOPIC5Across5 Bumptious, crude or reckless (5)BRASH5Across6 Man, say, placing one page between the sheets? (5)BIPED5Across6 ___ to differ (5)AGREE5Across7 Running bird (3)EMU3Across8 First word of many a Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode (3)ITS3Across8 Face wiper (9)SERVIETTE9Across9 Muppet Amin confined to more cheerful block? (10,5)BLITHERINGIDIOT15Across9 Pacific islander (8)TAHITIAN8Across10 Brilliant music? (4)ROCK4Across10 Puddle (4)POOL4Across11 Old banger taking the biscuit with breakdown truck, would you say? (8)KRAKATOA8Across11 Give generously (6)DONATE6Across13 Charity jog (3,3)FUNRUN6Across14 Dash a cigar off that’s poisonous (3,6)FLYAGARIC9Across14 Some villain, a director, the lowest of the low (5)NADIR5Across15 Irritable and hot in Windy City (5)ITCHY5Across16 Batch – cut short (4)CROP4Across16 Friendliness (8)BONHOMIE8Across17 Consider framing suggestion with old pictures (9)MULTIPLEX9Across18 Eyewitness (9)BYSTANDER9Across20 Intervals including notes a perfect fifth apart horrifying singers? (3,5)THEBIRDS8Across20 Badge (3)TAG3Across21 Kiss and Wham on tour? (4)MWAH4Across21 Line of improvement (8,5)LEARNINGCURVE13Across22 One’s disempowered when had by those, Spooner’s Margaret, Temple and MacLaine? (5,3,7)SHORTANDCURLIES15Across25 Hog radiator, say, when first cut off (5)EATER5Across26 Arsenal’s feeble passing through channel (9)ARTILLERY9Across27

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Runner in European capital concerned with section going uphill (5)TIBER5Down1 Petal (anag) (5)PLEAT5Down1 Short-legged friend of the late monarch (5)CORGI5Down1 Not together (5)APART5Down2 Bad speller in theory, extremely anxious (7)TWITCHY7Down2 Essex city (8-2-3)SOUTHENDONSEA13Down2 Long speech finally wrapped up by wizard (4)ACHE4Down3 Give false information about (8)MISSTATE8Down3 US spelling for workroom clamps (5)VISES5Down3 Persistent, dull pain (4)ACHE4Down4 Bergen’s country (6)NORWAY6Down4 Red colour a revolutionary adopts (4)RARE4Down4 Use needles (4)KNIT4Down5 Noted progression without cabbage being mentioned? (5,5)MINORSCALE10Down5 Initials indicating that details will later be added (3)TBA3Down5 Boat driver? (8,5)OUTBOARDMOTOR13Down6 Very anxious when building house? (8,2)BRICKINGIT10Down6 Russian government (7)KREMLIN7Down7 Keen I observe, nothing to lose in school (7)POINTED7Down7 Pattern has Dorothy frolicking in spring, did you say? (3,6)DOTMATRIX9Down8 Plain character gets surly, I gathered (4,6)UGLYSISTER10Down12 Exultant (8)EUPHORIC8Down12 Sound unit (7)DECIBEL7Down13 Photo briefly capturing mother, teacher and a princess (5,5)PRIMADONNA10Down13 Miss payment claiming one pocketed by singers (4,2,3)FAILTOSEE9Down14 Saturated (6)SODDEN6Down15 Actress and singer also going up in smoke (7)CHEROOT7Down17 Bird of prey (5)EAGLE5Down18 One defined by ‘scummy fellow’? (7)LOWLIFE7Down19 Iran (anag) (4)RAIN4Down19 Growly dog (5)HUSKY5Down22 Stumpy tail – ‘s pruned (4)SCUT4Down23 Test of popular opinion to the north (4)ORAL4Down24

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