The Guardian Crossword August 19 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 19 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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Fairly – or completely (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Snafu (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → A rag man (one of these) (7)74 AcrossReveal answer → Battlefield cry (2,3)55 AcrossReveal answer → Lyon river (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Watery, pressure-maintaining fluid in eye (7,6)138 AcrossReveal answer → Flexible practitioner to support animated character (4,4)88 AcrossReveal answer → Burn the edges of (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Nasal inflammation – Irish ITN (anag) (8)89 AcrossReveal answer → Strength from dog shaking off lead (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → ‘The ___ you know, the better’ (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Year in Spanish Main’s ending soon (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Disney princess left queen over trouble in country (2,8)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Gratis (4)411 AcrossReveal answer → Book that is set in strange land (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Piquet or Mandela (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Ball game (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Football team crush defensive formation (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → North Korea’s leader hacking into computer’s digital printing devices (7)716 AcrossReveal answer → Club – press (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Pink Panther Inspector (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Most generous and good of Poirot to make a comeback in case (7)718 AcrossReveal answer → Juicer (5,8)1319 AcrossReveal answer → Carriage clock’s face cutting clumsy cleaner (8)821 AcrossReveal answer → Longest river in Asia (7)721 AcrossReveal answer → Buttocks – a nest (anag) (5)522 AcrossReveal answer → Personal assistant admits one form of word blindness (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Distressed maid in pantry retreating from flying insect (3,7)1024 AcrossReveal answer → Heartless bum in prison (4)426 AcrossReveal answer → Hotel California charges old person (5)527 AcrossReveal answer → I mention getting hammered before you can say Jack Robinson (2,2,4)828 AcrossReveal answer →

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Benny Hill? (8)81 DownReveal answer → Hit’s opposite (4)41 DownReveal answer → Every four years (13)131 DownReveal answer → Hero knocked over nuclear fuel (4)42 DownReveal answer → Typed missive (5)52 DownReveal answer → Initialled memo of debt (3)32 DownReveal answer → Radiated light (5)53 DownReveal answer → 11 stopping Spanish team getting close again (6)63 DownReveal answer → Combination of characters expressing feeling (8)83 DownReveal answer → Descend vertical drop using rope (6)64 DownReveal answer → Suppose Big Bird’s turning up to support Trump? (7)74 DownReveal answer → Emulates Olivia Rodrigo (5)54 DownReveal answer → Mother starts to upset Lily Savage (4)45 DownReveal answer → Water (4)45 DownReveal answer → Award sounded crazy for playwright (5,5)106 DownReveal answer → Golfers’ tiny doodads (4)46 DownReveal answer → North American river (3,6)96 DownReveal answer → Bad-tempered types last to get up for walk (6)67 DownReveal answer → Open spaces for trading in towns (6,7)137 DownReveal answer → Its capital is Douglas (4,2,3)910 DownReveal answer → Sky-blue – earn clue (anag) (8)812 DownReveal answer → Value of New Romantic EP (10)1013 DownReveal answer → Shot regularly dismissed Ollie Pope (3)315 DownReveal answer → Memorial plate – film on teeth (6)615 DownReveal answer → Study of depression cut short (3)317 DownReveal answer → Small, mosquito-like fly (4)418 DownReveal answer → Swindling trick from man in uniform (4,4)819 DownReveal answer → Denis Villeneuve’s right to film movie in US city (7)720 DownReveal answer → Slang for a spot (3)320 DownReveal answer → Chemist replacing parts of large Whopper (6)622 DownReveal answer → 2 followed by Tesla obliquely (6)623 DownReveal answer → Artist trimmed long hair (4)425 DownReveal answer → Musical Youth finally escaping from Jaws (4)426 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Wednesday, August 19, 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.