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The Guardian Crossword August 20 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 68 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword August 20 2026 answers. The Thursday puzzle has 68 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
This animal unfairly bears the blame? (9)SCAPEGOAT9Across1 Crazy MAGA ran America as a repeated crime, for instance (7)ANAGRAM7Across1 By the ___ of your pants (4)SEAT4Across1 ‘O Holy Night’, eg (5)CAROL5Across5 Traumatized son held by uncle outside (7)INSHOCK7Across5 Old-fashioned term for fevers (5)AGUES5Across7 Make another offer to buy something (5)REBID5Across8 Clarified butter (Indian) (4)GHEE4Across8 Television set (informally) (6-3)GOGGLEBOX9Across9 Fled (3)RAN3Across9 Compose crosswords at home to become established (3,2)SETIN5Across9 Bishop, angel or enemy (4)ARCH4Across10 River plant may spread in profusion (9)RAMPANTLY9Across10 Closely observing vote in favour, with subsequent outcry heard (10)EYEBALLING10Across11 … is 21 reversed? So it is! (4)ERGO4Across12 Padded bedcover (5)QUILT5Across13 Kind of setter one’s figured out? Produced solution again (11)REDISSOLVED11Across14 Abrupt stop – bar exercise (4-2)PULLUP6Across15 I’m sorry to hear that (2,4)OHDEAR6Across16 Over-effusive person – free-flowing oil well (6)GUSHER6Across17 Angry outburst about small fight (5,6)CROSSSWORDS11Across18 Stop a film at a particular frame (6)FREEZE6Across19 Poison of organic origin (5)TOXIN5Across20 Turn back on monster (4)OGRE4Across21 Female sheep (4)EWES4Across21 Nothing in numbers is changed as result of moving 15 (10)SUBMERSION10Across22 Elephant, rhino or hippo, eg – mad cypher (anag) (9)PACHYDERM9Across24 Digits – little piggies? (4)TOES4Across25 Like the most one can do, in terms of manual employment (3-6)TWOHANDED9Across25 Othello’s wife – nomad seed (anag) (9)DESDEMONA9Across26 Program’s producer, person able to handle Morse, say (5)CODER5Across26 Rector having letter forwarded? It’s about one name for God (7)CREATOR7Across27 Solidly constructed – one’s mad to change it (7)MASONED7Across28

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Something solvers may lack – and so were not finished (6)ANSWER6Down1 Mark left on the skin (4)SCAR4Down1 Part of bloomer in Guardian? There you have it (6)ANTHER6Down2 Raring to go (5)EAGER5Down2 Become distasteful from excess (as in sweetness) (4)CLOY4Down2 Caribbean island and former part of the Netherlands Antilles (5)ARUBA5Down3 Happens to meet – as any intersecting answer here does (4,6)RUNSACROSS10Down3 Three little house-builders (4)PIGS4Down3 Matured to adulthood (4,2)GREWUP6Down4 Good lesson as example of double definition (5)MORAL5Down4 Slight forward convergence of a pair of wheels so that they are closer together in front than behind. (3-2)TOEIN5Down4 Greek sun-god (6)APOLLO6Down5 About negative introduction, admission of meanie who delivers jabs? (9)IMMUNISER9Down5 Get across what’s central to crossword? Separate out valuable bits (4)SPAN4Down6 Keen -sighted (5-4)SHARPEYED9Down6 Initials for ‘acid’ (3)LSD3Down6 Excel on course in skill, not in approach (8)OUTDRIVE8Down7 Energised – made to pay again? (9)RECHARGED9Down7 In part of Florida, wife or daughter located crucial elements (3,5)KEYWORDS8Down8 Pasta you may wind up eating? (9)SPAGHETTI9Down11 Hammered – after limb breakage? (9)PLASTERED9Down12 Undisturbed (5)QUIET5Down13 Builds lead in constituency, embraced by Tory supporters (10)CONSTRUCTS10Down13 Sharp spike on rose stem (5)THORN5Down14 Doctor’s beginning new round, confused and extremely distant (4,5)DOWNUNDER9Down15 Wordplay known to Greeks, Socratic sort (8)ACROSTIC8Down16 Little Women, for example, in half a reel? (8)FOURSOME8Down17 Turn like a wheel (6)ROTATE6Down18 Angled (6)FISHED6Down19 Like certain answers in relation to clues, some of which I’d denigrate (6)HIDDEN6Down19 Girl’s name forming part of solution (6)INGRID6Down20 Sandler, Pearson or Ant (4)ADAM4Down22 Way to address lady in Mother’s Union (5)MADAM5Down23 English architect – small bird (4)WREN4Down23 Endure like this clue (4)LAST4Down24

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Thursday, August 20, 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.