The Guardian Crossword August 2 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 59 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 59 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 2 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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Across

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Was into (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Resort name is hard in European language (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Like major organs (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Bag for books put in stores at Cheltenham (7)75 AcrossReveal answer → Protected against precipitation (9)95 AcrossReveal answer → Cause a scene (3,2)56 AcrossReveal answer → Wants and __ (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Eg Michelangelo’s David (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Canada ___ (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Raises a toast in honour of (6,2)89 AcrossReveal answer → Foolhardiness (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → Mention of orchard fruit for couple (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Sings high? (6)611 AcrossReveal answer → One regularly making changes? (4-6)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Throw off course dishonest type with journalist when backsliding (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → This person’s to thrive after leaving society that’s not acceptable (8)813 AcrossReveal answer → Bucolic (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Rally those heading each new company before this period? (9)914 AcrossReveal answer → Fly mechanically (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → Reportedly, substantial framework of bars (5)516 AcrossReveal answer → Subdivision containing the most famous (1-7)816 AcrossReveal answer → First of police in place showing deliberate nastiness (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Gym term for chest muscles (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Creator of baked treats (9)919 AcrossReveal answer → Score in darts led pub too to get excited (6,3)919 AcrossReveal answer → Drab outcome at work still in area around Darwin (3-5)823 AcrossReveal answer → Fine sailor was ahead of others, being legendary (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Old man managed by soldiers badly in France, defying rational explanation? (10)1026 AcrossReveal answer → Requirement once ready at intervals (4)427 AcrossReveal answer → Put out note before rental agreement (7)728 AcrossReveal answer → Flatter American scheduled to tour Californian city with tons (7)729 AcrossReveal answer →

Down

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Sliced’s counterpart (5)51 DownReveal answer → Third party to a secret, in a phrase (8)81 DownReveal answer → Gradually introduce heaps for repair at home (5,2)72 DownReveal answer → Give voice to (5)52 DownReveal answer → ‘I’m taking things ___ at a time’ (3,3)62 DownReveal answer → Woman found in Oregon or Maine (5)53 DownReveal answer → Somewhat scandalous – or plummy? (6)63 DownReveal answer → Tastelessly showy (5)53 DownReveal answer → More delicate sort of troubles, nothing less (7)74 DownReveal answer → Delivery vehicle (3)34 DownReveal answer → Chess piece (4)44 DownReveal answer → CD predecessors (3)35 DownReveal answer → Double double (9)96 DownReveal answer → Fancy bar elevated front in Torquay? That’s unexpected (6)66 DownReveal answer → Running, jumping, throwing and the like (9)97 DownReveal answer → Charlie attending programme of study in large open space (9)97 DownReveal answer → Perhaps, lead factor (7)78 DownReveal answer → Leading limo to move in due course (3,2,4,4)139 DownReveal answer → More sentimental, or more prone to leak? (8)812 DownReveal answer → Black or white grape from the Loire (6)614 DownReveal answer → Dealing with a problem, like an attentive lawyer? (2,3,4)915 DownReveal answer → Whence St Francis (6)615 DownReveal answer → Merchandise, or a thief’s loot (4)417 DownReveal answer → Crude advertising by individual around flag intermittently (7)718 DownReveal answer → British brace of fellows probing complicated deal in a confused state (7)720 DownReveal answer → Acquire too much fuel? (7)721 DownReveal answer → Model couple of Poles, people of great energy (6)622 DownReveal answer → Embargo a line of a hackneyed nature (5)525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Sunday, August 2, 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.