The Guardian Crossword August 16 2026 Answers
Sunday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword August 16 2026 answers. The Sunday 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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Pungent in smell or caustic in tone (5)ACRID5Across1
Fishy (10)SUSPICIOUS10Across1
Left to follow Oxford detective a bit (6)MORSEL6Across1
Old man getting six: hero in part of cricket ground (8)PAVILION8Across5
Riyadh inhabitant (5)SAUDI5Across6
Inert gas (5)ARGON5Across7
___ gas (5)NOBLE5Across8
Relating to a gland near the kidney (7)ADRENAL7Across9
Instrument’s note in peculiar recital (8)CLARINET8Across9
‘When you gaze long into an ___, the ___ also gazes into you’ (5)ABYSS5Across9
Corruption at Eton’s beginning to produce revolution (6)ROTATE6Across10
Attends – resents – notices (5)MINDS5Across10
Snack dished up in white barrels? (5,7)WELSHRAREBIT12Across11
Inserted utterance (12)INTERJECTION12Across11
Not quite a boil (6)SIMMER6Across12
Note, second presented by the writer (4)MEMO4Across13
Aïoli taste (6)GARLIC6Across14
Tunesmith revamping old times (8)MELODIST8Across14
Soccer team starts to have lower expectations in topmost level (8)ATHLETIC8Across17
Join, except when led by American (4)ABUT4Across18
Lay up (12)INCAPACITATE12Across18
Launch opportunity having put $1000 up front (5,7)GRANDOPENING12Across20
Red Monopoly building (5)HOTEL5Across22
Pliant goat leather (7)CHAMOIS7Across23
Convent member leading company welcoming one papal ambassador (6)NUNCIO6Across23
Crushing sorrow (10)HEARTBREAK10Across24
Superficial type gripped by bishopric’s power (4-4)SKINDEEP8Across24
League initially brought in graph about footballing legend (8)CHARLTON8Across25
Set of chromosomes – information some at first ignored (6)GENOME6Across26
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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Yoga position (5)ASANA5Down1
Part of no Slovenian city (4)OSLO4Down2
Disconcert (7)UNNERVE7Down2
Chocolate ‘substitute’ (5)CAROB5Down2
Oval-ball sport (5)RUGBY5Down3
Hay-fever trigger (6)POLLEN6Down3
Head of league engaged in revision of sport law and quick survey (5,4)STRAWPOLL9Down3
They’re venerated (5)IDOLS5Down4
Tailed orbiter (5)COMET5Down4
Liberal working with cathedral, having no support? (6)LONELY6Down4
Enjoys a repast (5)DINES5Down5
Stop – let’s get a cynical view (3,3,7,2)PUTTHEMOCKERSON15Down5
Unforced error (3,4)OWNGOAL7Down5
Part of equation? Feasible to include answer, excluding content (8)VARIABLE8Down6
Band or frame (4)SASH4Down6
Some quiet talk over coffee (5)LATTE5Down7
The ‘r’ in pi-r-squared (6)RADIUS6Down7
Pot Louisa stirred, filled with unknown broth (6,4)OXTAILSOUP10Down8
Dry, to a bubbly buff (4)BRUT4Down8
Fail to be deceived by description of audacious dress? (3-7)SEETHROUGH10Down12
Am Inuit (anag) – little detail (7)MINUTIA7Down13
Last members of daring little band, beset by monster, kept going (7,2)DRAGGEDON9Down15
He said ‘Open sesame’ (3,4)ALIBABA7Down15
Tubby, seen around ordinary party, was prominent (5,3)STOODOUT8Down16
Cricketing line (6)CREASE6Down16
Cup counterpart (6)SAUCER6Down17
Parcel out (5)ALLOT5Down19
Industrial activity repeatedly popular in classic British car firm (6)MINING6Down19
Onboard greeting (4)AHOY4Down20
Persian king (4)SHAH4Down21
Pleasanter to turn up in Empire Cinema? (5)NICER5Down21
Direct line cutting border (4)HELM4Down22
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian 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.