The Guardian Crossword August 20 2026 Answers

Thursday puzzle · 68 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 68 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 20 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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This animal unfairly bears the blame? (9)91 AcrossReveal answer → Crazy MAGA ran America as a repeated crime, for instance (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → By the ___ of your pants (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → ‘O Holy Night’, eg (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Traumatized son held by uncle outside (7)75 AcrossReveal answer → Old-fashioned term for fevers (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Make another offer to buy something (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Clarified butter (Indian) (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Television set (informally) (6-3)99 AcrossReveal answer → Fled (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Compose crosswords at home to become established (3,2)59 AcrossReveal answer → Bishop, angel or enemy (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → River plant may spread in profusion (9)910 AcrossReveal answer → Closely observing vote in favour, with subsequent outcry heard (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → … is 21 reversed? So it is! (4)412 AcrossReveal answer → Padded bedcover (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → Kind of setter one’s figured out? Produced solution again (11)1114 AcrossReveal answer → Abrupt stop – bar exercise (4-2)615 AcrossReveal answer → I’m sorry to hear that (2,4)616 AcrossReveal answer → Over-effusive person – free-flowing oil well (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → Angry outburst about small fight (5,6)1118 AcrossReveal answer → Stop a film at a particular frame (6)619 AcrossReveal answer → Poison of organic origin (5)520 AcrossReveal answer → Turn back on monster (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Female sheep (4)421 AcrossReveal answer → Nothing in numbers is changed as result of moving 15 (10)1022 AcrossReveal answer → Elephant, rhino or hippo, eg – mad cypher (anag) (9)924 AcrossReveal answer → Digits – little piggies? (4)425 AcrossReveal answer → Like the most one can do, in terms of manual employment (3-6)925 AcrossReveal answer → Othello’s wife – nomad seed (anag) (9)926 AcrossReveal answer → Program’s producer, person able to handle Morse, say (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Rector having letter forwarded? It’s about one name for God (7)727 AcrossReveal answer → Solidly constructed – one’s mad to change it (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →

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Something solvers may lack – and so were not finished (6)61 DownReveal answer → Mark left on the skin (4)41 DownReveal answer → Part of bloomer in Guardian? There you have it (6)62 DownReveal answer → Raring to go (5)52 DownReveal answer → Become distasteful from excess (as in sweetness) (4)42 DownReveal answer → Caribbean island and former part of the Netherlands Antilles (5)53 DownReveal answer → Happens to meet – as any intersecting answer here does (4,6)103 DownReveal answer → Three little house-builders (4)43 DownReveal answer → Matured to adulthood (4,2)64 DownReveal answer → Good lesson as example of double definition (5)54 DownReveal answer → Slight forward convergence of a pair of wheels so that they are closer together in front than behind. (3-2)54 DownReveal answer → Greek sun-god (6)65 DownReveal answer → About negative introduction, admission of meanie who delivers jabs? (9)95 DownReveal answer → Get across what’s central to crossword? Separate out valuable bits (4)46 DownReveal answer → Keen -sighted (5-4)96 DownReveal answer → Initials for ‘acid’ (3)36 DownReveal answer → Excel on course in skill, not in approach (8)87 DownReveal answer → Energised – made to pay again? (9)97 DownReveal answer → In part of Florida, wife or daughter located crucial elements (3,5)88 DownReveal answer → Pasta you may wind up eating? (9)911 DownReveal answer → Hammered – after limb breakage? (9)912 DownReveal answer → Undisturbed (5)513 DownReveal answer → Builds lead in constituency, embraced by Tory supporters (10)1013 DownReveal answer → Sharp spike on rose stem (5)514 DownReveal answer → Doctor’s beginning new round, confused and extremely distant (4,5)915 DownReveal answer → Wordplay known to Greeks, Socratic sort (8)816 DownReveal answer → Little Women, for example, in half a reel? (8)817 DownReveal answer → Turn like a wheel (6)618 DownReveal answer → Angled (6)619 DownReveal answer → Like certain answers in relation to clues, some of which I’d denigrate (6)619 DownReveal answer → Girl’s name forming part of solution (6)620 DownReveal answer → Sandler, Pearson or Ant (4)422 DownReveal answer → Way to address lady in Mother’s Union (5)523 DownReveal answer → English architect – small bird (4)423 DownReveal answer → Endure like this clue (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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