The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 17 2025 Answers (7/17/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword July 17, 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 17, 2025 Answers

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« July 16 2025 Answers

#	Clue
4A	Too dry to wear something up top
6A	One man’s name and number being ill-directed?
9A	I’ll take badgers a drink
10A	See 6
11A	Fish with it: rivers matter
15A	A near-Earth asteroid with the coordinates of comms facility
17A	Code bearer carries refined poet’s words along parts of canal
18A	Birth to 2-year-old & 9+-year-old groups look to be excluded from these (3-8)
22A	Briefly horrible, honking smell at source?
23A	Repair 75% of car light bulbs
24A	See 22
25A	Understood terms have not been taken in
1D	Brand new university appointee’s mislaid cope
2D	Predator plunges medic upside down into Löwenbräu? (4-6)
3D	Prepares for engagement feast and stocks reserves
4D	Carmen playing in top theatre is inspired? Mercury seen to rise in it?
5D	See 4
7D	One leading Kurds from the south can unite
8D	We’re not for feeding easy answers from the floor
12D	Forgetting conflict, rather wary about part of army set
13D	Weaver locked in cell since not entirely religious event of 1819
14D	See 13
16D	Coke woman’s snorting up features in Scottish tour
19D	Virgin hunted down in reception
20D	What’s at #20 – with missing humour – is ___
21D	Left downtrodden, 20 writer does object to worship

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