The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 10 2025 Answers (7/10/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 10, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 10, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 7/10/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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« July 9 2025 Answers

#	Clue
5A	Maybe like a microphone trick to smother insolence (4-2)
6A	Cut around soft spot
9A	Keen officer hugging ace soldiers
10A	Place where you’ll find people who are little and large – bad place for one to be in
11A	‘Moneymaker’ that may grow in the garden
12A	I’m dire pest to be given spray?
13A	Fitting a number into sheltered accommodation to the east of a very quiet old city
18A	Creep is dodgy when capturing photo? Don’t step too close to these!
21A	Sound asleep, having abandoned party
22A	Fellow introducing singer Bobby is a bigwig
23A	Correspondence from one in political organisation
24A	Reportedly top vehicle for winter conditions
25A	Uncultivated, like a Ted of yesteryear?
1D	Bypass – is speed limit finally reduced?
2D	Pharmacist stocking drug gets stars
3D	Rascal observed penning pages about gangster
4D	Element of hospital meal, mostly very dry, eaten by tramp?
5D	Brainboxes managed to penetrate spy agency
7D	Troubles in hotel with relatives
8D	Silence poet conjured up in a time long ago
14D	Act of sports official – superior male with holy anger
15D	Religious type with extreme characters in an uplifting ceremony
16D	Old coins found in grain
17D	Snobbish as pig away from home apparently!
19D	Club characters regularly coming in could get on well together
20D	The old man’s upset, a soldier

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