Crossword Answers for Thursday, 23 July 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Thursday, 23 July 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- A broad flat muscle on either side of the back LAT
- 4
- The muscles of the abdomen ABS
- 7
- Refuse to let have DENY
- 8
- Relieve from FREE
- 10
- Rounded like an egg OVAL
- 11
- Give evidence TELL
- 12
- Hoop that covers a wheel TYRES
- 14
- A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite ALS
- 15
- Bend or cause to bend CROOK
- 17
- The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
- 19
- Fixate one's eyes STARE
- 22
- Be agitated BOIL
- 24
- A duplicate copy TWIN
- 25
- Vulgar slang for anus ARSE
- 26
- Make easier EASE
- 27
- The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
- 28
- The seed of the cereal grass RYE
Down
- 1
- Impose and collect LEVY
- 2
- An advocate of anarchism ANARCHIST
- 3
- A town in northeast Texas TYLER
- 4
- Situated at or toward the stern or tail AFT
- 5
- The act of breaking away or withdrawing from BREAKAWAY
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- Give up for a price or reward SELL
- 7
- Distribute loosely DOT
- 9
- Angular distance above the horizon ELS
- 13
- An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code SOS
- 16
- Freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur OTTER
- 17
- A fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair ABA
- 18
- An open skin infection SORE
- 20
- A movement upward RISE
- 21
- The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
- 23
- A unit of length of thread or yarn LEA