Crossword Answers for Wednesday, 22 July 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Wednesday, 22 July 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Subject to laughter or ridicule GUY
- 4
- The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
- 7
- A lower limit BASE
- 8
- The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 THOU
- 10
- Things that make you comfortable and at ease AMENITIES
- 12
- The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue RED
- 13
- Washing lightly without soap RINSE
- 14
- A licensed medical practitioner DOC
- 15
- Fill or place a load on LADEN
- 18
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
- 21
- An instrument that performs analyses ANALYZERS
- 23
- An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up MART
- 24
- By bad luck ALAS
- 25
- A unit of length of thread or yarn LEA
- 26
- Use diligently PLY
Down
- 1
- An amusement or pastime GAME
- 2
- Take or consume USED
- 3
- A yearning for something or to do something YEN
- 4
- Informal terms for a human head ATTIC
- 5
- Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling SHIN
- 6
- Dig with a hoe HOES
- 7
- The act of preventing BAR
- 9
- The act of using USE
- 11
- Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs IRONY
- 14
- The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet DELTA
- 15
- A rapid escape LAM
- 16
- Of or related to the anus ANAL
- 17
- To be courageous enough to try or do something; , DARE
- 18
- Give up for a price or reward SELL
- 19
- Call upon in supplication; entreat PRAY
- 20
- A pompous fool ASS
- 22
- Strike suddenly and with force ZAP