The Guardian Crossword August 10 2026 Answers
Monday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword August 10 2026 answers. The Monday puzzle has 61 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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Click a clue for every answer it has ever hadClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Unenlightened (9)BENIGHTED9Across1
Teased, wearing tatty clothes (6)RAGGED6Across1
Eye irritation (4)STYE4Across1
End of play is baffling (6)STUMPS6Across4
Perpendicular – like chiffon? (5)SHEER5Across5
Inhabitant of 2d (5)TEXAN5Across6
Lessen (5)ABATE5Across7
Lay to rest (5)INTER5Across8
Low singing voice (4)BASS4Across8
School-trip vehicle (7)MINIBUS7Across9
Love university, but fail (4)OMIT4Across9
Wedding do, held in advance (3,5)HENPARTY8Across10
Virginia’s eerie quality? (10)CREEPINESS10Across10
Therefore (formal) (4)ERGO4Across11
A pretentious type rejected one little-grown tree (6)BONSAI6Across11
Bubbling tureen is making us very hungry (8)ESURIENT8Across12
Give power, strength or authority to (6)ENABLE6Across13
Isolate small wader scratching back at barrier (9)SEGREGATE9Across13
Give a ‘not guilty’ verdict (6)ACQUIT6Across14
One submissively bent is taken to offer respect (4)KNEE4Across15
Very British marketplace (4)SOUK4Across16
Street, table or effect (4)SIDE4Across16
Rehearsal for musical that has prearranged result? (4,5)SHOWTRIAL9Across17
Large bottle (8)DEMIJOHN8Across17
Insistent (7)ADAMANT7Across19
Privileged social group (5)ELITE5Across20
Effective (but possibly unethical) (9)EXPEDIENT9Across21
Note a mishap, tumbling shawl (8)PASHMINA8Across21
Edit colourful performance (6)REDACT6Across22
Fondness for use of paperclip (10)ATTACHMENT10Across24
Stimulate husband, outwardly feeble (4)WHET4Across25
Charitable society has new head, a public official (6)NOTARY6Across26
Most useless papers in case (6)IDLEST6Across27
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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Emphasise lost sheep is found? (3,4)RAMHOME7Down1
Marine hanger-on (8)BARNACLE8Down1
‘Arrival of the Queen of ___’ (5)SHEBA5Down1
Home to a 6ac (5)TEXAS5Down2
Bill for garden features (5)GATES5Down2
Idiot (informally) (6)NUMPTY6Down2
Eating out as an artistic activity (7)ETCHING7Down3
Unwanted sticky stuff (4)GUNK4Down3
Poet William Butler (5)YEATS5Down3
Sea eagle (4)ERNE4Down4
Keats died of it (12)TUBERCULOSIS12Down4
No longer in production (12)DISCONTINUED12Down5
Thrust something pointed into (4)STAB4Down5
A penny accepted by ticket seller to leave the Tube (3,3)TAPOUT6Down5
Measure of seismologists (7,5)RICHTERSCALE12Down6
Some Mormons ignore Catholic dignitary (9)MONSIGNOR9Down6
Tall floor light (8,4)STANDARDLAMP12Down7
Girl from South America banned, leaving the borders (7)SUSANNE7Down7
To keep smooth, shave, then change: utter bliss (7,6)SEVENTHHEAVEN13Down8
It’s not deliberate (8)ACCIDENT8Down12
Feeling unwell, throw off outdoor coat (9)ROUGHCAST9Down14
Cook’s grinder (6)PESTLE6Down15
Simple skill in bridge (7)SPARTAN7Down16
Smooth – bits of rock (4)SAND4Down18
Fabric of lowest quality last to be used (7)WORSTED7Down18
Very old person’s nice tan misguided (7)ANCIENT7Down19
Spot that woman’s musical instrument (6)ZITHER6Down20
A quantity of drug wife’s swallowed: look for water (5)DOWSE5Down23
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Monday, August 10, 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.