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The Guardian Crossword August 21 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 21 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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Crumble filling – repeated as background chat (7)71 AcrossReveal answer → Communicate words with your hands (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Not illuminated (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → Throws for a loop (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Eight Days ___ (1,4)58 AcrossReveal answer → S American river – Womble (7)78 AcrossReveal answer → ‘Evil demon vanquished!’ makes sensational reading (4,5)99 AcrossReveal answer → The ___ Brief (1993 film) – brainy book imprint (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Nonverbal assents (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Sporty type beneath the surface, but one who’ll give in? (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Butterfly, captain or exerciser (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Court award presented in alternative month (7)711 AcrossReveal answer → Wood or metal turning machine (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Astronomer’s western partner, one with a sign (7)712 AcrossReveal answer → What’s-its-name (9)913 AcrossReveal answer → Tongue-in-cheek, creep inside (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Composer of divertimento managed without it (10)1014 AcrossReveal answer → Mexican dish – rolled stuffed tortilla (9)915 AcrossReveal answer → Treasure’s almost buried by explosive – touching (7)716 AcrossReveal answer → Artist’s Power Unit and Evian Water (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Mowgli’s bear friend (5)518 AcrossReveal answer → Model person appearing in NME, Time Out (10)1019 AcrossReveal answer → Street atlas component (4,3)721 AcrossReveal answer → Freckle – gent oil (anag) (7)722 AcrossReveal answer → Child has right to enter club (4)422 AcrossReveal answer → Waterproof footwear – Philip Marlowe, eg (7)723 AcrossReveal answer → Gratify fully (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Focused on getting money – shamefaced (7)724 AcrossReveal answer → Deceiver, foreign nobleman, featured in Observer (7)725 AcrossReveal answer → Minister without Portfolio’s capital offence (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Very hard as level of gratitude abroad reduced? (9)927 AcrossReveal answer →

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Not much of an experience for the Artemis II crew at the end (1,4,2,3,5)151 DownReveal answer → Drive back (5)51 DownReveal answer → Boyle, Sontag or Lazy (5)51 DownReveal answer → Smiley book’s going up I learn? (8)82 DownReveal answer → Bisected (2,3)52 DownReveal answer → Dark (5)52 DownReveal answer → Fastened with adhesive (5)53 DownReveal answer → Insults marrow in seconds (5)53 DownReveal answer → Parisian monument (3,2,8)133 DownReveal answer → Miniature trees (6)64 DownReveal answer → Company actor initially wearing plain attire (8)84 DownReveal answer → 999 (5)54 DownReveal answer → Office furniture – MPs giving manicures? (6,7)135 DownReveal answer → Black, easily portable mould (6)65 DownReveal answer → Vowel-free scolding syllable (3)36 DownReveal answer → Fluffy, woolly ball (6)66 DownReveal answer → Incline to quash civil act by end of day (9)96 DownReveal answer → Yippee! (6)67 DownReveal answer → Valour shown after detonation of part of a plant (6)67 DownReveal answer → Tree expert’s concoction of citrus and oil-tar rub (15)158 DownReveal answer → Last word, often, of a prayer (4)412 DownReveal answer → Condiment (abbrev) – Irish county (4)414 DownReveal answer → It refreshes dictionary’s backing – and work by Bellow (9)915 DownReveal answer → Infuriate (6)615 DownReveal answer → Unpleasantly warm and sticky – like shellfish? (6)616 DownReveal answer → Discovery, Jazz and Gala (6)617 DownReveal answer → Travel on board Chinook, say, seated on foam (8)817 DownReveal answer → Buddy possibly needs energy to be put in goal and improved (8)818 DownReveal answer → Soviet space dog (5)519 DownReveal answer → ___ layer (region of Earth’s stratosphere) (5)520 DownReveal answer → Elected, elevated and taken to party’s heart – then shut out (6)620 DownReveal answer → Nice woman gets a daughter into musical? (6)621 DownReveal answer → Sing and entertain (5)523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, August 21, 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.