The Guardian Crossword August 16 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 61 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 16 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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Pungent in smell or caustic in tone (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Fishy (10)101 AcrossReveal answer → Left to follow Oxford detective a bit (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Old man getting six: hero in part of cricket ground (8)85 AcrossReveal answer → Riyadh inhabitant (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Inert gas (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → ___ gas (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Relating to a gland near the kidney (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Instrument’s note in peculiar recital (8)89 AcrossReveal answer → ‘When you gaze long into an ___, the ___ also gazes into you’ (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Corruption at Eton’s beginning to produce revolution (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → Attends – resents – notices (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Snack dished up in white barrels? (5,7)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Inserted utterance (12)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Not quite a boil (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Note, second presented by the writer (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Aïoli taste (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Tunesmith revamping old times (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → Soccer team starts to have lower expectations in topmost level (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Join, except when led by American (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Lay up (12)1218 AcrossReveal answer → Launch opportunity having put $1000 up front (5,7)1220 AcrossReveal answer → Red Monopoly building (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Pliant goat leather (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Convent member leading company welcoming one papal ambassador (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Crushing sorrow (10)1024 AcrossReveal answer → Superficial type gripped by bishopric’s power (4-4)824 AcrossReveal answer → League initially brought in graph about footballing legend (8)825 AcrossReveal answer → Set of chromosomes – information some at first ignored (6)626 AcrossReveal answer →

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Yoga position (5)51 DownReveal answer → Part of no Slovenian city (4)42 DownReveal answer → Disconcert (7)72 DownReveal answer → Chocolate ‘substitute’ (5)52 DownReveal answer → Oval-ball sport (5)53 DownReveal answer → Hay-fever trigger (6)63 DownReveal answer → Head of league engaged in revision of sport law and quick survey (5,4)93 DownReveal answer → They’re venerated (5)54 DownReveal answer → Tailed orbiter (5)54 DownReveal answer → Liberal working with cathedral, having no support? (6)64 DownReveal answer → Enjoys a repast (5)55 DownReveal answer → Stop – let’s get a cynical view (3,3,7,2)155 DownReveal answer → Unforced error (3,4)75 DownReveal answer → Part of equation? Feasible to include answer, excluding content (8)86 DownReveal answer → Band or frame (4)46 DownReveal answer → Some quiet talk over coffee (5)57 DownReveal answer → The ‘r’ in pi-r-squared (6)67 DownReveal answer → Pot Louisa stirred, filled with unknown broth (6,4)108 DownReveal answer → Dry, to a bubbly buff (4)48 DownReveal answer → Fail to be deceived by description of audacious dress? (3-7)1012 DownReveal answer → Am Inuit (anag) – little detail (7)713 DownReveal answer → Last members of daring little band, beset by monster, kept going (7,2)915 DownReveal answer → He said ‘Open sesame’ (3,4)715 DownReveal answer → Tubby, seen around ordinary party, was prominent (5,3)816 DownReveal answer → Cricketing line (6)616 DownReveal answer → Cup counterpart (6)617 DownReveal answer → Parcel out (5)519 DownReveal answer → Industrial activity repeatedly popular in classic British car firm (6)619 DownReveal answer → Onboard greeting (4)420 DownReveal answer → Persian king (4)421 DownReveal answer → Pleasanter to turn up in Empire Cinema? (5)521 DownReveal answer → Direct line cutting border (4)422 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Sunday, August 16, 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.