The Guardian Crossword August 15 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 81 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 81 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 15 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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The flag of England used by FIFA (2,7,5)9 AcrossReveal answer → The flag of Northern Ireland used by FIFA (6,6)6 AcrossReveal answer → Welsh for the red dragon in the flag of 18 (1,6,4)7 AcrossReveal answer → All noobs could make party decorations (8)81 AcrossReveal answer → Bad-tempered (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Smirking, perhaps (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Devastation (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Michael who played a memorable Scrooge (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → __ Godesberg, spa town in Germany (3)36 AcrossReveal answer → Scrappy figure, from ends of leftover sofa covering and merino wool material (3,4)76 AcrossReveal answer → Tax dodger’s nightmare (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → ___ K. ___, Three Men in a Boat author (6)67 AcrossReveal answer → Ban not over for beastly doctor (3)37 AcrossReveal answer → Facts ‘n’ figures (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Hardy heroine (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Opposed (6)68 AcrossReveal answer → Logo I redesigned for shelter in the north (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Bit of orange peel (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Free trade alliance made up of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Call English beauty (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Giant (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → The time in John Berendt’s Garden of Good and Evil? (8)811 AcrossReveal answer → Small bricks no good to make lion (3)311 AcrossReveal answer → Struggling (4-7)1112 AcrossReveal answer → Nutcase’s second place of torture (5)512 AcrossReveal answer → Desert pool’s old, with nothing changed (5)514 AcrossReveal answer → US theatre award avoided by new play (3)316 AcrossReveal answer → Untaxed – yet Freud (anag) (4-4)817 AcrossReveal answer → Mount Snowdon in Welsh (2,6)817 AcrossReveal answer → Last bits of this hot chilli lobster chowder trouble for mixer (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Sci-fi movie craft his parts differently (8)818 AcrossReveal answer → Post, leg or hurrah (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → In Chinese philosophy, the active male principle of the universe (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → Arouse (6)620 AcrossReveal answer → Numb (6)621 AcrossReveal answer → The flag of Scotland used by FIFA (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Bits of a comb or saw (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → The __, magazine founded by Richard Ingrams in 1992 (5)523 AcrossReveal answer → Document proving who you are (2,4)623 AcrossReveal answer → Special forces unit of the British Army (3)324 AcrossReveal answer → Lord __, military commander remembered in part for appearing on an army recruiting poster (9)925 AcrossReveal answer →

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Treasure (eg a memory) (7)71 DownReveal answer → Bread in pack by eastern lake (5)51 DownReveal answer → Fry lightly and quickly (5)51 DownReveal answer → __ Coeur, church in Paris (5)51 DownReveal answer → Crap cleaner will shampoo lino floor to feel useful, finally (3,4)72 DownReveal answer → One more (7)72 DownReveal answer → King known to be touchy? (5)52 DownReveal answer → Part of the larynx consisting of the vocal cords and the opening between them (7)72 DownReveal answer → Single complete domestic fixtures combining what are sometimes separate parts (5)53 DownReveal answer → Bird dish, not British (3)33 DownReveal answer → Apiarist (9)93 DownReveal answer → Great __, river flowing through Bedford (4)43 DownReveal answer → New endings to brighten demo TV programme reel (5)54 DownReveal answer → Polish city, neighbour of Gdansk (6)64 DownReveal answer → Loiter anxiously (5)54 DownReveal answer → Obtains (4)44 DownReveal answer → Teaches alien Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, perhaps (8)85 DownReveal answer → District of south-east London once home to David Bowie and Eleanor Marx (8)85 DownReveal answer → All the actors in a show (4)45 DownReveal answer → Rambling – observe (anag) (7)75 DownReveal answer → Melvyn __, author and television presenter (5)56 DownReveal answer → Pecorino or paneer? (6)66 DownReveal answer → Another name for Sirius (3,4)77 DownReveal answer → Rue tears about precious belongings (8)88 DownReveal answer → Studious snob, so blotto drunk, alibi proves zilch, ultimately (7)710 DownReveal answer → Unlimited (4-5)911 DownReveal answer → __ Lamar, American rapper (8)812 DownReveal answer → A poem by Tennyson – or a novel by Joyce (7)713 DownReveal answer → A, an or the? (7)713 DownReveal answer → African country, for example – year, part time (5)513 DownReveal answer → Bit of dried fruit (7)714 DownReveal answer → London district whose fictional football team is managed by Ron Knee? (7)715 DownReveal answer → Prost’s unusual grumpy sulk (5)515 DownReveal answer → Come down (7)715 DownReveal answer → The Doppler __, also known as the Doppler shift (6)616 DownReveal answer → Most peculiar (6)616 DownReveal answer → Gentleman taking ecstasy from father (3)317 DownReveal answer → Jimmy __, co-founder of Wikipedia (5)518 DownReveal answer → Carry companion? (5)518 DownReveal answer → Germaine __, author of The Female Eunuch (5)520 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, August 15, 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.