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Daily Express Crossword August 16 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 52 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the Daily Express Crossword August 16 2026 answers. The Sunday puzzle has 52 clues; every answer has been verified. Click any clue to see every answer it has ever had, across every publisher in our database.

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Sheer gall? Not all objectTHING5Across1 Chain divides points getting hotSCORCHING9Across4 FanDEVOTEE7Across6 VoicedVOCAL5Across7 Dull poky prisons, thought producersLITTLEGREYCELLS15Across9 UtterSAY3Across9 Protectors submitted to a golferSENTINELS9Across10 ConspicuousPROMINENT9Across10 Request from Nebraska wild manABNER5Across11 ImpolitenessDISCOURTESY11Across12 Actor open about key western...STEWART7Across12 ...criticises film job, on reflectionPICKSAT7Across13 ProjectPROPOSITION11Across15 A little rascal’s quote about abstainingASCETIC7Across15 Change roundREARRANGE9Across17 Funny catches for containersPUNNETS7Across18 SobCRY3Across19 Will a meadow ever content?LEAVE5Across20 BerateSLATE5Across21 LimpFLACCID7Across22 Hiring again, say, or letting people goRELEASING9Across22 About thirteen crew tangled with foeWITHREFERENCETO15Across24 Give two pounds back to tattoo artistDONATELLO9Across25 Fruit Russian agreed to put backDATES5Across26

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Backseat driver caught liesTALES5Down1 Put offDELAY5Down1 It’s deep now, and stressfulINTENSE7Down2 HumbleLOW3Down2 Travel about to vex a Russian male modelGALLIVANT9Down3 CarryBEAR4Down3 US agents in a group split upSEGMENT7Down4 ConsciousnessCOGNITION9Down4 Introducing writers to publishers sounds offOPENSUP7Down5 ArdentEARNEST7Down5 Associated double? Ace drinkCOCOA5Down6 Keys are singularly secure, sonISLANDS7Down7 Blast, three raised perch complaint!GASTRITIS9Down8 QuantityAMOUNT6Down8 InequalityDISPARITY9Down11 Some lead women on, it's believedSWALLOWED9Down12 RandomCASUAL6Down13 MethodicalORDERLY7Down14 Drunk at nine in inauthentic local?CONTAINED9Down14 CornGRAIN5Down16 Cars beginning to accelerate? ShameCHASTEN7Down16 Lace and fur ensemble on guardCAREFUL7Down17 ChasmGULF4Down18 White room above old Italian placePALERMO7Down18 Noted rapper not finishing booksEMINENT7Down19 FreezingICY3Down20 Flyer, for example, about the CrownEGRET5Down21 Singers Gina and Diana bring inGROSS5Down23

About this puzzle

This page lists every clue and answer from the Daily Express crossword published on Sunday, August 16, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.