The Guardian Crossword August 22 2026 Answers

Saturday puzzle · 70 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 70 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 22 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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Rolls piled up here? (5,6)111 AcrossReveal answer → Bovine product (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Eastern European involved in antislavery (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → More sensible (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → Where badger’s hiding in Massachusetts (4)44 AcrossReveal answer → Somewhere Only We Know hitmakers (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → French phrase for a feeling of having already experienced the present situation (4,2)67 AcrossReveal answer → Surname of authors Richard, Dornford and Christopher J (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Always eco-friendly and never unpopular (9)97 AcrossReveal answer → In Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and the king of Pylos (6)68 AcrossReveal answer → Poker payment from Italian smoker on the counter (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Tennis divider (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Spin-off series from The Good Wife starring Carrie Preston (7)79 AcrossReveal answer → Jerusalem or globe (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Use this for hacking, chesty spasms (6)69 AcrossReveal answer → Dark, viscous mixture (3)310 AcrossReveal answer → __ Palin, former governor of Alaska (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Revolutionary to slaughter Grand National winner (3,3)610 AcrossReveal answer → Author of poem with opening line ‘Stop all the clocks’ (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Author of Swallows and Amazons (6,7)1312 AcrossReveal answer → Band sets ashore, losing some characters (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Complying with (7)713 AcrossReveal answer → What’s poisonous if eaten? Amphibians, idiot! (9)914 AcrossReveal answer → Not more than (2,4)614 AcrossReveal answer → George Eliot’s final novel (6,7)1314 AcrossReveal answer → Frustrate, obstruct (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → Correct: movement of the sea is ebbing (4)415 AcrossReveal answer → Right, is energy to increase in price? (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → __ Lively, star of Gossip Girl (5)517 AcrossReveal answer → Return something removed – delay (3,4)718 AcrossReveal answer → __ and Principe, island state (3,4)718 AcrossReveal answer → Look at with intense interest or desire (3,2)520 AcrossReveal answer → Objections (with buts) (3)321 AcrossReveal answer → Natasha’s mother in Sesame Street (6)622 AcrossReveal answer → Nervous chewer (4-5)922 AcrossReveal answer → Aggressive – waging war – rebel tingle (anag) (11)1124 AcrossReveal answer →

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IRL in internet shorthand (2,4,4)2 DownReveal answer → Term in chaos theory for how small events may have disproportionate consequences (9,6)9 DownReveal answer → What Rick said to Ilsa – and what the French hope? (4,6,4,5)4 DownReveal answer → Song of praise (5)51 DownReveal answer → ‘Untruth? Good!’ (English Lord) (5)52 DownReveal answer → What the Clash rocked in 1982? (6)62 DownReveal answer → Ornamental stone typically banded in appearance (5)52 DownReveal answer → Furrow made by wheels (3)32 DownReveal answer → Measure of automotive gasoline somewhere in America (5)53 DownReveal answer → 2020 Christopher Nolan actioner (5)53 DownReveal answer → eg grave and acute (7)73 DownReveal answer → Yogi’s pal – silly mistake (3-3)64 DownReveal answer → Observe Duke with yen to be disreputable (5)54 DownReveal answer → ‘Above us only ___’ (3)34 DownReveal answer → Hi- or lo-___ graphics (3)35 DownReveal answer → Eg Thunberg – root vegetable (5)55 DownReveal answer → Silent, with malfunctioning musical instrument (3,7)105 DownReveal answer → The founder of Islam (8)86 DownReveal answer → Free from entanglements (9)96 DownReveal answer → Intervened unwisely and created once again (10)106 DownReveal answer → Ice-cream dish – with shared fruit? (6,5)117 DownReveal answer → Person that’s clever, or foolish (sarcastically) (6,5)118 DownReveal answer → Big meal that’s part of Zoroastrianism (5)511 DownReveal answer → Skinflint emirs, after your change (5)512 DownReveal answer → Small coffee cup – missed tea (anag) (9)912 DownReveal answer → Finishes, as pimples coming up (5)513 DownReveal answer → Moor and town in Yorkshire (6)615 DownReveal answer → Daniel __, Nicaraguan politician (6)616 DownReveal answer → Where cobblers work and where cads drink? (4,3)716 DownReveal answer → Going down snow-slopes (6)617 DownReveal answer → Historical record of events (5)519 DownReveal answer → Golda __, former Israeli prime minister (4)419 DownReveal answer → The abbreviation for Texas (2)221 DownReveal answer → Large cask (3)323 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Saturday, August 22, 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.