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The Guardian Crossword August 26 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 61 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 61 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 26 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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ClueLetters#Answer
Creator of Veruca, George and Matilda (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Witch carrier (10)101 AcrossReveal answer → Snow place; like, home (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Italian bread (8)87 AcrossReveal answer → Cede (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Suddenly comprehend – thin woody shoot (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Durable twilled woollen / worsted fabric (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Big Apple’s best ever on bread – and butter (5,4)99 AcrossReveal answer → Helen of ___ (4)49 AcrossReveal answer → Init.s for a text (3)39 AcrossReveal answer → Possible sickener, incomplete story of environmentalism? (1,4)510 AcrossReveal answer → Vividly descriptive – chip rag (anag) (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Father, forward in motion … (4,3)711 AcrossReveal answer → … priest entering job (7)712 AcrossReveal answer → These use sunlight to generate electricity (5,6)1112 AcrossReveal answer → Deputy Viking perhaps flayed (4)413 AcrossReveal answer → Machine-readable stripes – how to behave in a pub? (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → European city recovering from disappointment, investing not as much (10)1014 AcrossReveal answer → A burden for a Titan in debt – Lord have mercy! (1,3,3)716 AcrossReveal answer → Ado (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Describing a vessel – whimsically or not? (7)717 AcrossReveal answer → Kid’s knocked over shed one rebuilt – a wind-up for the horticulturalist? (6,4)1019 AcrossReveal answer → Dejected (4)419 AcrossReveal answer → Happening intermittently (2,3,3)820 AcrossReveal answer → This bird sits in the old gum tree (10)1021 AcrossReveal answer → Building unit razed to the ground? (4)422 AcrossReveal answer → After embroidering, sender wraps uniform for purchaser (3,4)724 AcrossReveal answer → Pink paper is tucked inside permit, red (7)725 AcrossReveal answer → I don’t want you, old bean, in fruit … (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → … and similarly in veg? (9)927 AcrossReveal answer →

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ClueLetters#Answer
Raise (morale) (5)51 DownReveal answer → Quite friendly person playing with mates, man paying a visit (2,8,5)151 DownReveal answer → Doctors (4)41 DownReveal answer → Fairy-tale menaces (5)52 DownReveal answer → How one might make bid, terribly (2,6)82 DownReveal answer → Experiencing continuous streak of good luck (2,1,4)72 DownReveal answer → Jeer (4)43 DownReveal answer → Revolution trammelled by democracy, clearly (5)53 DownReveal answer → Phone clock function (5)53 DownReveal answer → Refreshment stop (3,5)84 DownReveal answer → Old drama served up with opera in state capital (8)84 DownReveal answer → Yearns – big-boy trousers (5)54 DownReveal answer → Act uncritically fondly, as with a grandchild (with ‘upon’) (4)45 DownReveal answer → Snip into pieces (3,2)55 DownReveal answer → Small strips in small bone (6)65 DownReveal answer → ___ Black (Harry Potter) – Dog Star (6)66 DownReveal answer → Descent as intolerance of spirit reported? (9)96 DownReveal answer → Country in defeat like that, 5-0 (6)67 DownReveal answer → LIST, say, how Trump sees Canada? (5-5,5)158 DownReveal answer → Traffic jam, standstill (8)811 DownReveal answer → Tiny underwear? (6)612 DownReveal answer → Country in South America – road cue (anag) (7)713 DownReveal answer → Brooch, role or ware (5)515 DownReveal answer → Book in cypher so encrypted for etailer (9)915 DownReveal answer → Fraction outside of second, swimmer pushing hard? (8)817 DownReveal answer → Capital of Bulgaria (5)517 DownReveal answer → Something possibly sugared in water turned up, sweet (8)818 DownReveal answer → Young sheep (4)418 DownReveal answer → Sound clothes I had on (6)620 DownReveal answer → Run over manuscript for secluded groups (6)621 DownReveal answer → Routinely concerned with all one’s toes? (5)523 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Wednesday, August 26, 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.