The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 6 2026 Answers (7/6/26)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 6, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
8A	Fine food store providing meals 50% off
9A	Wordplay by church magazine in the past
10A	Release knot after cycling
11A	50 leave prayers over 10 school punishments?
12A	Lord caught being unproductive
14A	Half of them plot to protect cricket match represented
16A	Prepare to deal in Harlem, maybe
18A	Ruler deports 1,000 to win vote, say
21A	Occasional cricket sides
23A	Wearing white, England finally get 500 with sweep
24A	One in court sent in criminal to get shot
26A	Wide initially given following batting side
27A	Perhaps Hamlet seizes Claudius’s crown in play
28A	‘Beats drinking alcohol’ – aristocrat on reflection with slice of lemon
1D	Scold or preach conversion
2D	Magazine’s obligation to describe source of material
3D	What even number is divided by 5000?
4D	Iron Lady’s bored by acting Tory leader’s ‘soft touch’
5D	Country rejects American PR
6D	10 hide under end of divan, trembling
7D	Transfer money
13D	Stopping official education ignoring tense
15D	Beauty product to go in container
17D	Guided light
19D	Foolish to steal ten pounds without a sound
20D	Take defensive position as grenade’s thrown
22D	Demons? Companions, run away!
23D	Stop going both ways? (4-2)
25D	Society backing favourite way to go up in the world
26D	Creature of indeterminate gender?

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