The Guardian Crossword August 28 2026 Answers

Friday puzzle · 62 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 62 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 28 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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Money in and out (of a business) (4,4)81 AcrossReveal answer → Iron Man is a woman (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → Reaper descriptor (4)41 AcrossReveal answer → Criticise character from Athens, thus creating sort of poetry (3,5)84 AcrossReveal answer → Mama Weer All Crazee Now and Skweeze Me Pleeze Me hitmakers (5)55 AcrossReveal answer → German composer, 1685–1750 (4)45 AcrossReveal answer → Marijuana puffer (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → In need of shedding some pounds (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Go ___ (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Snack: portion of spinach ossobuco (6)69 AcrossReveal answer → Not sparkling (water) (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Quick, irregular motion (7)710 AcrossReveal answer → Photo, a character from long ago: outspoken rogue (8)810 AcrossReveal answer → No tax on alcohol, perfume etc here (4-4,4)1211 AcrossReveal answer → Engaged in drink, CIA annulled cryptic system of old Rome (6,8)1411 AcrossReveal answer → Tumble – overthrow (6)613 AcrossReveal answer → Plunderers’ music fest in part of Winchester? (5,5)1013 AcrossReveal answer → Exhausted (4-2)614 AcrossReveal answer → Prey for an aardvark: one Contra (4)414 AcrossReveal answer → God backflips into canal (4)416 AcrossReveal answer → Handless timer (7,5)1217 AcrossReveal answer → Lifted off around two, say: it may require a shot (5,5)1018 AcrossReveal answer → Innocent trust, unworldliness (7)720 AcrossReveal answer → White mark on animal’s face – inferno (5)521 AcrossReveal answer → Get ogress irritated and annoyed with symbol (2,7,5)1421 AcrossReveal answer → Underworld river (4)422 AcrossReveal answer → Smooth talker on X, say (8)823 AcrossReveal answer → Pigs’ feet (8)823 AcrossReveal answer → Arrest in general location reversed (6)624 AcrossReveal answer → Sob stories in Slate? (3,5)825 AcrossReveal answer → Turkish bigwig covers arse, it may be hidden (6)626 AcrossReveal answer →

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Satisfactory punishment (4)41 DownReveal answer → Truncheon (4)41 DownReveal answer → In which you can see all around the world (5)51 DownReveal answer → Dissolute men – in a shed? (5)52 DownReveal answer → Ingredient of comfort food covering rear end of Shakespearean (7)72 DownReveal answer → Steeply sloping, snowy ramp (3,4)72 DownReveal answer → ‘That is to say’ (2,3)53 DownReveal answer → Celebrated rugby player offside (8)83 DownReveal answer → Decent (5,7)123 DownReveal answer → ‘Tis a ___ scratch!’ (4)44 DownReveal answer → Bags, blue or shoes (6)64 DownReveal answer → Amoebae and such travelled nautical miles, giving up sex in retrospect (11)115 DownReveal answer → Place, as in an overhead locker (4)45 DownReveal answer → Lower, but greater (6)66 DownReveal answer → H or h (5)56 DownReveal answer → Traditional sailor’s dance (8)87 DownReveal answer → Originally, source (excessively loud noise) was a sub (5,2)77 DownReveal answer → Chess opening – bisque magnet (anag) (6,6)128 DownReveal answer → Hustler’s damage includes train wreck (3,6)98 DownReveal answer → Singer wanting cabbage to whip up piece in advance (3,4,4)1112 DownReveal answer → Those engaged in learning (8)812 DownReveal answer → Don’t play at stalls where Yanks relieve themselves? (4,5)913 DownReveal answer → Drunken peer falls into brewski-chugging contraption in drinkers’ diversion (4,4)815 DownReveal answer → Lay down with authority (7)715 DownReveal answer → Actor or gamer (6)616 DownReveal answer → E, for Einstein? (7)717 DownReveal answer → Coated with ingrained dirt (5)518 DownReveal answer → Part of eye or camera (4)419 DownReveal answer → € is based on this Greek character harboured by lone lunatic (7)719 DownReveal answer → 75% of plátanos turned into something romantic (6)620 DownReveal answer → Killer imprisoned in Windsor Castle (4)422 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, August 28, 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.