Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - July 21, 2026
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Puzzle date
July 21, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
8.Nick and Henry Bird8 letters9.Pink cattle pen? Not right!5 letters10.Articulated fruit is not fair4 letters11.Left and right wings of party turn back, collapsing into ruin10 letters12.Hair loss ultimately comes before anxiety6 letters14.Are fired (sacked), being thin8 letters16.Herald’s power decline7 letters18.Hearing of pub expedition, neighbours start off7 letters21.Panels damaged – try pitch8 letters23.Dialect reveals smooth love lives6 letters24.Kid’s rental bike fixed10 letters26.Bottle essential parts4 letters27.Crew strive to get leader replaced5 letters28.Shrewd US composer making records8 letters
Down
1.Tough comedian without name8 letters2.Just a second to remove top? Doubtful4 letters3.A core island sun god6 letters4.Depend on getting in support for a music genre7 letters5.Wizard at foot of elder tree4 letters6.Fig, pear almost turn out to be the possible basis of fad diet10 letters7.Chestnut one replaced with ring for crop protection6 letters13.Drugs defence involving college that’s associated with Houdini10 letters15.Stand for election (ironic) and get through all the booze3 letters17.See 153 letters19.Game of kiss and tell, perhaps, with time for Latin8 letters20.Poet’s wife and enforcer7 letters22.Twin drying aid, lidless6 letters23.Devout, bawdy and buccaneering6 letters25.Ram’s a laughing-stock4 letters26.Easy: massive return with little initially invested4 letters
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