The Guardian Crossword July 9 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 68 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 68 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for July 9 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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Commoner (3,6)91 AcrossReveal answer → Modified missile they compare (not literally) (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Biological bag (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → ___ goals (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → For Americans, field that’s extremely hard (7)75 AcrossReveal answer → ‘No idea, pal’ (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Not pi (anag) – mountaineer’s spike (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Mad-cow disease (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Rang (anag) (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Rowdy drinker (5,4)99 AcrossReveal answer → Last part of book, perhaps, some find exciting (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Respondents, as can be seen, covering all points about right (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Chew (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Recalling upset about drug producing bad reaction (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Arsenal’s example of this weapon (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → Power (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → They help thieves steal handbags etc. (11)1114 AcrossReveal answer → US snack? (3,3)615 AcrossReveal answer → Brass band sound (6)616 AcrossReveal answer → Lease out leased-out property (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → Like life as simple as possible? I’ll run a clue that’s convoluted (11)1118 AcrossReveal answer → If dart (anag) (6)619 AcrossReveal answer → Juggernaut (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Soccer goalkeeper goofed thus (once in each half) (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Young bovine animal (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Volume in English about an isolated regime (10)1022 AcrossReveal answer → Implausibly large number (9)924 AcrossReveal answer → Stuff (4)425 AcrossReveal answer → Following one action of union, embracing it (9)925 AcrossReveal answer → All one’s got (5,4)926 AcrossReveal answer → Succeeding with a more stern position? (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Last of aging female’s family that may be prepared to help in a pickle (7)727 AcrossReveal answer → Beautiful woman performs without love in theatre part (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Bias added to a line in personal kind of column (6)61 DownReveal answer → Word for a firework usually preceded by ‘damp’ (5)51 DownReveal answer → Waist hit when batting – precisely (6)62 DownReveal answer → Relatives feared by Bertie Wooster (5)52 DownReveal answer → Tolerable (4)42 DownReveal answer → Light narrow open boat propelled by paddling (5)53 DownReveal answer → Heard you and I ruled tax out of order, had it very easy (10)103 DownReveal answer → Pastrami meat (4)43 DownReveal answer → North Sea construction? (3,3)64 DownReveal answer → Tool that’s sharp but may be said to be blunt (5)54 DownReveal answer → Antecedent of the Lib Dems (3)34 DownReveal answer → Cowboy (6)65 DownReveal answer → Firing careless shot might result in this (9)95 DownReveal answer → Mafia boss (3)35 DownReveal answer → F1 event (5,4)96 DownReveal answer → Perfectly performed in most social classes (4)46 DownReveal answer → Covered as a learner, I drove erratically (8)87 DownReveal answer → Fairy tale (4,5)97 DownReveal answer → A coach secured by side in disarray? Correct (8)88 DownReveal answer → Scientist (9)911 DownReveal answer → Secureness (9)912 DownReveal answer → It takes several horses to move it inches? (4-2-4)1013 DownReveal answer → Replica (5)513 DownReveal answer → Today (anag) (5)514 DownReveal answer → Complicity in conflict, having change of heart (9)915 DownReveal answer → Being promoted on board – for French, that upset good number (8)816 DownReveal answer → Faction supporting gang in area close to fighting (8)817 DownReveal answer → Force causing rotation (6)618 DownReveal answer → Short rhyme for it will, when spoken quickly (6)619 DownReveal answer → Draw in (6)619 DownReveal answer → Emoji used by wooer in suit (6)620 DownReveal answer → Globule – The ___ (cult film of 1958) (4)422 DownReveal answer → Once more restrict speech, for example in newspaper (5)523 DownReveal answer → Throw casually (4)423 DownReveal answer → Device for lifting injured hill-climber (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Thursday, July 9, 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.