The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 9 2025 Answers (7/9/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 9, 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 9, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving The Guardian Cryptic Crossword on 7/9/25, 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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#	Clue
1A	Meeting record takes order for food
4A	See 1
9A	Prime minister’s garden
10A	Suggestion of heartless bullying
11A	Travelling Brits love a French eatery
12A	One each afterwards held as unskilled
13A	Perhaps I’m grabbed, grabbed by hint of colour
15A	See 13
16A	Armenians oddly out of control
17A	How to remove plaster and succeed
21A	Ballot of sporting venue?
22A	See 21
24A	Revered like this clue, promoting the end can’t change
25A	Backing of shops for public transport
26A	Gallery has welcomed reactionary party till now
27A	Having lost weight, student lost heart
1D	Wine and cheese served up by republicans
2D	Group problem playing tennis?
3D	Port, originally in Libya, is needing renovation
5D	A term composition to include piano and fiddle
6D	George’s dysfunctional utopia followed by many
7D	Rush to contain firm’s misfortune
8D	Paint technique can feature in fraud
14D	Celebrity starts to eat dinner, with bubbles
16D	City needs diplomacy to make an undiplomatic declaration
18D	One benefits from entry in shelter
19D	Florida’s capital not just an amusement park
20D	Dog breeder’s primary advantage
23D	Decimal, many times

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