Thursday · July 5, 2018 · Crossword

Daily Themed Crossword July 5, 2018 Answers

All 66 Clues Solved

Every clue and answer from the July 5, 2018 grid, in puzzle order.

66 clues ← Jul 4 Jul 6 →
66Clues
11Longest
3Shortest
6Abbreviations
Answers

July 5, 2018 — All 66 Clues

Listed in the order they appear in the grid. Tap COPY to take an answer with you.

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#1 Tiger Woods' sport Show answer 4
#2 ___ year (sabbatical) Show answer 3
#3 Gone missing in army vocabulary: Abbr. Show answer 4
#4 Animal rights organization: Abbr. Show answer 4
#5 Robe for some priests Show answer 3
#6 Australian rock band behind "Highway To Hell" Show answer 4
#7 Animation unit Show answer 3
#8 "Buenos ___" Show answer 4
#9 Secret stockpile Show answer 5
#10 Chicago railways Show answer 3
#11 Woody Harrelson starrer "The ___ of Seventeen" Show answer 4
#12 Crossword direction of this word Show answer 4
#13 Grasp suddenly Show answer 4
#14 "Show Boat" author ___ Ferber Show answer 4
#15 Be in debt Show answer 3
#16 Princess ___ Organa from "Star Wars" Show answer 4
#17 "The ___ of the Rings" Show answer 4
#18 "She has a ___ of things on her plate." Show answer 3
#19 Dance drama in which Mila Kunis plays a ballerina working on Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake": 2 wds. Show answer 9
#20 Beer holder Show answer 3
#21 Beer belly Show answer 4
#22 Cereal grain Show answer 6
#23 "___ sells seashells by the seashore" Show answer 3
#24 Kobe Bryant's sports group: Abbr. Show answer 3
#25 Sound booster Show answer 3
#26 Actor ___ Gibson Show answer 3
#27 Salary Show answer 3
#28 Bloated sense of self Show answer 3
#29 "Murder on the ___ Express" by Agatha Christie Show answer 6
#30 Schedule abbr. Show answer 3
#31 It may go through the eye of a needle Show answer 6
#32 Hula hooping joint? Show answer 3
#33 Society newcomer for short Show answer 3
#34 Baseball positions: Abbr. Show answer 3
#35 Not against Show answer 3
#36 Roads: Abbr. Show answer 3
#37 Dance drama in which Jamie Bell plays a young boy aspiring to become a ballet dancer during the U.K. miners' strike: 2 wds. Show answer 11
#38 Drag a bulky object Show answer 3
#39 Soapmaker's requirement Show answer 3
#40 Giant brute Show answer 3
#41 Supplier's clients Show answer 6
#42 Talk noisily Show answer 3
#43 Everything Show answer 3
#44 Italian painter ___ Veronese Show answer 5
#45 Millennials or ___ Y for short Show answer 3
#46 Big hairdo Show answer 4
#47 Elbow's site Show answer 3
#48 Wander around Show answer 4
#49 Change position Show answer 4
#50 Young boy Show answer 3
#51 Way in or out Show answer 4
#52 Diplomat's forte Show answer 4
#53 "We should buy ___ to help us with the navigation.": 2 wds. Show answer 4
#54 Parrot's home within a home Show answer 4
#55 ___ Vogue magazine Show answer 4
#56 Dance drama in which Kevin Bacon's character challenges Bomont city council's ban on dancing and rock music Show answer 9
#57 Perfect ___ (perfect score) Show answer 3
#58 Take to court Show answer 3
#59 Former name for Tokyo Show answer 3
#60 Hollywood's ___ West Show answer 3
#61 Rant and ___ Show answer 4
#62 Audible even from a great distance Show answer 4
#63 Grow old Show answer 3
#64 Sign for a superstitious person Show answer 4
#65 Dark and delicious cookie Show answer 4
#66 Scribbling tool Show answer 3
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About this puzzle

How the July 5, 2018 Grid Breaks Down

This is the Daily Themed Crossword main puzzle for July 5, 2018, a Thursday. It contains 66 clues, which is exactly the usual size for a daily grid. The longest answer is BILLYELLIOT at 11 letters; the shortest is 3.

Watch the clue wording on this one: 6 clues are flagged "Abbr.", meaning the answer is shortened rather than spelled out, and 3 clues carry a "wds." flag, so the answer runs several words together with no spaces. Those markers are reliable in this game and are the quickest way to fix a letter count before you commit to an entry.

Neighbouring dates are linked above, and the 2018 archive holds every daily puzzle from that year. Away from the calendar, the game's 202 themed packs hold another 58,679 clues.

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FAQ

July 5, 2018 — Questions

What are the Daily Themed Crossword answers for July 5, 2018?
The July 5, 2018 grid has 66 clues. Every clue and its answer is listed in the table above, in the order they appear in the puzzle.
How many clues are in this puzzle?
There are 66 clues. The longest answer is BILLYELLIOT at 11 letters and the shortest runs to 3. 6 clues are flagged as abbreviations.
Is there a mini puzzle for this date?
There is no companion puzzle on file for this date.
Where can I find other dates?
The daily archive holds 3,216 dates in total, including July 4, 2018 and July 6, 2018.
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Pro tips

3 Tips for the July 5, 2018 Crossword

01

The theme is a clue in itself

Daily Themed Crossword builds each board around one idea, and the themed entries are usually the longest answers on the grid. This board carries 66 clues with answers from 3 to 11 letters — work out what the long ones have in common and the rest of the grid opens up around them.

02

Short fills are where the crossings come from

Three- and four-letter answers are the cheapest squares on the board and they feed letters into every long entry they touch. When a themed answer will not come, fill the short ones around it first rather than staring at the clue.

03

Keep the streak going

The 2018 archive holds every board from this year, and nothing is removed once published. Older boards are the cheapest practice there is, because the clue style repeats even when the answers do not.

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How we check

Verified Answers, Not Guesses

How we verify this board

The 66 clue-and-answer pairs here were captured from the July 5, 2018 crossword on the day it ran, with the clue wording stored exactly as the game showed it and every answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.

Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.

Last checked — Sep 8, 2026
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Daily Themed Crossword by the numbers

66clues on this board
11longest answer
6,030boards archived
240,941clues indexed
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How to play

How to Solve a Daily Themed Crossword

How the daily and mini grids are built, and the order that solves them.

STEP 01

Read the theme before the clues

Daily Themed Crossword builds every puzzle around one idea, and the long entries almost always belong to it. Knowing the theme turns those from cold clues into a guessing game with a very short list.

STEP 02

Fill the short crossings first

Three and four letter answers use the most predictable vocabulary in the whole grid. Each one you place hands letters to the long clues for free, which is a better use of the first minute than staring at the hardest entry.

STEP 03

Abbreviations are signposted

A clue ending in "Abbr." or containing its own abbreviation is telling you the answer is short and clipped. The same goes for "Hyph." and "2 wds." — the clue format is half the answer.

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