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This page lists the Guardian Cryptic Across and Down clues for July 13, 2026 with optional letter and answer reveals.

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Guardian Cryptic Crossword

Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - July 13, 2026

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Puzzle date

July 13, 2026

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July 13, 2026JUL 13 JUL 10

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Clue index

All Across and Down clues

Across

1.Sort of surgery that’s built outside town6 letters 4.Physicist from college welcomed by board6 letters 9.In corridor we slept badly, but it’s a bonus to be on Red Square15 letters 10.Revolutionary outbreak shut PC up6 letters 11.Inconvenience of one square being in the shade8 letters 12.Horse box, large cask on back8 letters 14.Animation of Irish in light rain6 letters 15.Dairy product finally baffling in your starter for ten6 letters 18.For a line of poetry, deliberately obscure8 letters 21.Caterer is purple with rage8 letters 22.Go round church for a sign from heaven6 letters 24.Make landfall, and kiss ground in remote region15 letters 25.Fears not starting boobs6 letters 26.Much recovered, I’ll wager6 letters

Down

1.Town’s nasty smell unhealthy7 letters 2.Diarist looks furtively for audience5 letters 3.He spent wildly for an old king7 letters 5.Women protecting daughters and sons maybe7 letters 6.Fruit, entire can demolished9 letters 7.Dakar, a Chinese controlled city7 letters 8.Headgear of good French fabric6 letters 13.A game to stir up the boss?9 letters 16.Produce eggs to value specially7 letters 17.Into which to disappear up Everest?7 letters 18.Show off row of shops6 letters 19.I contribute online in extremely rude retort7 letters 20.Slim line in transmitter7 letters 23.Domestic equipment now may be so fashionable5 letters

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