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The Guardian Crossword August 24 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 59 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 59 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 24 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Fumbler – briefest grunt (anag) (13)131 AcrossReveal answer → Plain starter of meal daddy’s eating (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → What you shouldn’t do, vis-a-vis the first stone (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Hitchcock was fond of one (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → At court, a new sovereign (8)85 AcrossReveal answer → Take to the soapbox (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → – (4)47 AcrossReveal answer → Ostentation (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → UFOs’ pilots, supposedly (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Relative by marriage (3-2-3)89 AcrossReveal answer → Having cooked bean soup, one requires attendance (8)89 AcrossReveal answer → Moderately loudly (music) (5-5)1010 AcrossReveal answer → Take another attitude to rest (6)610 AcrossReveal answer → Once Standard English no longer heard at opening of Parliament (6,6)1211 AcrossReveal answer → eg an HB or a 2B (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Slippery equine? (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → 18 on a course that is dry (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → Jenny ___ (comedian) – choux pastry (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → From that point on (10)1015 AcrossReveal answer → Typically male slob struggling with hike (8)817 AcrossReveal answer → Drop tools here (4)418 AcrossReveal answer → Large Hadron ___ (8)819 AcrossReveal answer → Tense morning working for Europeans (12)1220 AcrossReveal answer → Entranced (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Sad tree? (7,6)1321 AcrossReveal answer → Try to stop celebrity endlessly showing sexual urge (6)623 AcrossReveal answer → Old records from accomplished country singer (8)824 AcrossReveal answer → Raise the hinge that’s wonky (8)825 AcrossReveal answer → Make a mess of motorway gradient (6)626 AcrossReveal answer →

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Purity measure (5)51 DownReveal answer → No place for pandemic, just fever (4)42 DownReveal answer → Still sealed (8)82 DownReveal answer → Rack up (5)52 DownReveal answer → Whippersnapper very quietly suppressing single sound from mouse (9)93 DownReveal answer → Adam and Eve’s third (4)43 DownReveal answer → Precious stone – 1969 Hitchcock thriller (5)53 DownReveal answer → Appeared to do this from Nice beach? (6)64 DownReveal answer → ‘Piggy’ (3)34 DownReveal answer → Tranquil (7)74 DownReveal answer → Ear, tube or city (5)55 DownReveal answer → Contrary to inclination, objecting to Scotch? (7,3,5)155 DownReveal answer → Clarendon, Napoleonic or Morse (4)45 DownReveal answer → Well-bred (7)76 DownReveal answer → Birds in most of the riverside plants (8)86 DownReveal answer → Madrid, time or life (4)47 DownReveal answer → Manage to get round small group of trees (5)57 DownReveal answer → Move cat aside, keeping very connected (10)108 DownReveal answer → Satisfy, as in expectations (4,2,2)811 DownReveal answer → Killer’s destiny in being caught by subterfuge (10)1012 DownReveal answer → Pet door (7)713 DownReveal answer → Hairy arch (7)714 DownReveal answer → Alumni’s pub evening is a thing! (9)915 DownReveal answer → Counterpart to broadside (3-2)516 DownReveal answer → Initial contribution to thread that gives clear directions (8)816 DownReveal answer → Untamed (5)517 DownReveal answer → Only – fish (4)418 DownReveal answer → Relax on firm topper on mattress for programme (6)619 DownReveal answer → Securing hearing without resistance (5)521 DownReveal answer → Enthusiasm in the heart of Commonwealth country (4)422 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Monday, August 24, 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.