The Guardian Crossword August 24 2026 Answers
Monday puzzle · 59 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword August 24 2026 answers. The Monday puzzle has 59 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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Fumbler – briefest grunt (anag) (13)BUTTERFINGERS13Across1
Plain starter of meal daddy’s eating (6)PAMPAS6Across1
What you shouldn’t do, vis-a-vis the first stone (4)CAST4Across1
Hitchcock was fond of one (5)CAMEO5Across5
At court, a new sovereign (8)AUTOCRAT8Across5
Take to the soapbox (5)ORATE5Across6
– (4)DASH4Across7
Ostentation (4)POMP4Across8
UFOs’ pilots, supposedly (3)ETS3Across8
Relative by marriage (3-2-3)SONINLAW8Across9
Having cooked bean soup, one requires attendance (8)SUBPOENA8Across9
Moderately loudly (music) (5-5)MEZZOFORTE10Across10
Take another attitude to rest (6)REPOSE6Across10
Once Standard English no longer heard at opening of Parliament (6,6)QUEENSSPEECH12Across11
eg an HB or a 2B (6)PENCIL6Across12
Slippery equine? (4)MULE4Across13
18 on a course that is dry (8)TEETOTAL8Across14
Jenny ___ (comedian) – choux pastry (6)ECLAIR6Across14
From that point on (10)THEREAFTER10Across15
Typically male slob struggling with hike (8)BLOKEISH8Across17
Drop tools here (4)SHED4Across18
Large Hadron ___ (8)COLLIDER8Across19
Tense morning working for Europeans (12)MONTENEGRINS12Across20
Entranced (4)RAPT4Across20
Sad tree? (7,6)WEEPINGWILLOW13Across21
Try to stop celebrity endlessly showing sexual urge (6)LIBIDO6Across23
Old records from accomplished country singer (8)ARCHIVES8Across24
Raise the hinge that’s wonky (8)HEIGHTEN8Across25
Make a mess of motorway gradient (6)MANGLE6Across26
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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Purity measure (5)CARAT5Down1
No place for pandemic, just fever (4)AGUE4Down2
Still sealed (8)UNOPENED8Down2
Rack up (5)AMASS5Down2
Whippersnapper very quietly suppressing single sound from mouse (9)PIPSQUEAK9Down3
Adam and Eve’s third (4)SETH4Down3
Precious stone – 1969 Hitchcock thriller (5)TOPAZ5Down3
Appeared to do this from Nice beach? (6)SEEMED6Down4
‘Piggy’ (3)TOE3Down4
Tranquil (7)RESTFUL7Down4
Ear, tube or city (5)INNER5Down5
Contrary to inclination, objecting to Scotch? (7,3,5)AGAINSTTHEGRAIN15Down5
Clarendon, Napoleonic or Morse (4)CODE4Down5
Well-bred (7)GENTEEL7Down6
Birds in most of the riverside plants (8)THRUSHES8Down6
Madrid, time or life (4)REAL4Down7
Manage to get round small group of trees (5)COPSE5Down7
Move cat aside, keeping very connected (10)ASSOCIATED10Down8
Satisfy, as in expectations (4,2,2)LIVEUPTO8Down11
Killer’s destiny in being caught by subterfuge (10)GUILLOTINE10Down12
Pet door (7)CATFLAP7Down13
Hairy arch (7)EYEBROW7Down14
Alumni’s pub evening is a thing! (9)OBSESSION9Down15
Counterpart to broadside (3-2)ENDON5Down16
Initial contribution to thread that gives clear directions (8)SIGNPOST8Down16
Untamed (5)FERAL5Down17
Only – fish (4)SOLE4Down18
Relax on firm topper on mattress for programme (6)SITCOM6Down19
Securing hearing without resistance (5)TYING5Down21
Enthusiasm in the heart of Commonwealth country (4)ZEAL4Down22
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Monday, August 24, 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.