The Guardian Crossword August 14 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 14 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Feature of everyday speech (13)131 AcrossReveal answer → Senses uncivil rioting – the participation of everybody? (13)131 AcrossReveal answer → eg Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Producer or Director (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → From the countryside (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Venue for an Oasis gig (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Washing load that may go on a lower setting (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → On paper, they’re friends (3,4)78 AcrossReveal answer → Sycophant (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Word preceding ‘Ferdinand’ or ‘Fleurs du Mal’ (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Killed – a large number (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Exclamation of success after recalling devil woman? (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Tramp beside Cambridge river taking in one feature of arboreal growth (7)711 AcrossReveal answer → Tree-dwelling (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Mean for one to return rubbish (3,2)512 AcrossReveal answer → Woman’s concealing a way with detectives and juice (4,5)913 AcrossReveal answer → Shrewd (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Light bit of rest in hospital bed rejected (5)514 AcrossReveal answer → Deliberately avoid (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Fascist movement? Sees to changes among Republicans (5,4)916 AcrossReveal answer → Retreat (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Mean types ruined online transactions (1-8)918 AcrossReveal answer → Wide expanse of uncultivated ground (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → Book launch finally having a lot of similar military material (5)519 AcrossReveal answer → Relieved apprehension in various readers about The Guardians volte-face (9)920 AcrossReveal answer → Adhesive – tasteless (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → Masonic or mayoral fancy dress? (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Where many maps show Alaska and Hawaii? This month around Spain (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Microscopic (13)1324 AcrossReveal answer → Note excellent view, largely ingenuous (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Offensive is torpedoing rotating satellite close to home (7)725 AcrossReveal answer → Maine – Eastern and petite, possibly (4,4,5)1326 AcrossReveal answer →

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Price or shower? (3)31 DownReveal answer → Small tapering nail with a side projection instead of a head (4)41 DownReveal answer → North American cheers most of experiment involving old swimming pools (9)92 DownReveal answer → Relating to hearing (5)52 DownReveal answer → Merciful (7)72 DownReveal answer → ___ Jacques (5)53 DownReveal answer → Composer’s inclination for radio broadcast? (5)53 DownReveal answer → So-so (4)43 DownReveal answer → Dubious (6)64 DownReveal answer → Hidden material – timber under stone (5)54 DownReveal answer → Loses points in tennis deliberately – aquarium supplies (5)54 DownReveal answer → ‘I hate to say it, but … ’ (4)45 DownReveal answer → Non-mainstream (film) (3-5)85 DownReveal answer → Malevolent, grabbing a lot of power at second hand (9)95 DownReveal answer → Dopy (5)56 DownReveal answer → Mention Australian mechanics – something audacious about that (9)96 DownReveal answer → Spring blossom (9)97 DownReveal answer → Travelled in winter, perhaps raised aloft (5)57 DownReveal answer → Adventurous types in middle of Hawkins – broadcast of Stranger Things two-thirds complete (7,6)138 DownReveal answer → The writer’s supporting Minister (mostly) about relationship and scandalous behaviours (13)139 DownReveal answer → Strap, squash or junction (9)910 DownReveal answer → Don’t get carried away! (6,2)812 DownReveal answer → Gangster (7)715 DownReveal answer → Source of heavy band equipment on charter in southern county (9)915 DownReveal answer → Tempting vegetable? (6)616 DownReveal answer → Something that makes classes rushed? Not entirely (9)916 DownReveal answer → Coaches? Coaches left after I disembarked (9)917 DownReveal answer → Coffee that won’t keep you up (5)518 DownReveal answer → An eternity (4)420 DownReveal answer → Excuse a sexual impulse, but not act (5)521 DownReveal answer → Italian writer not ultimately hosted by another European (5)522 DownReveal answer → One heartless sod is stupid (5)523 DownReveal answer → Everyone (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, August 14, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. 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.