The Guardian Crossword August 28 2026 Answers
Friday puzzle · 62 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all the The Guardian Crossword August 28 2026 answers. The Friday puzzle has 62 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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Money in and out (of a business) (4,4)CASHFLOW8Across1
Iron Man is a woman (6)FEMALE6Across1
Reaper descriptor (4)GRIM4Across1
Criticise character from Athens, thus creating sort of poetry (3,5)RAPMUSIC8Across4
Mama Weer All Crazee Now and Skweeze Me Pleeze Me hitmakers (5)SLADE5Across5
German composer, 1685–1750 (4)BACH4Across5
Marijuana puffer (5)TOKER5Across6
In need of shedding some pounds (5)OBESE5Across7
Go ___ (4)WEST4Across8
Snack: portion of spinach ossobuco (6)NACHOS6Across9
Not sparkling (water) (5)STILL5Across9
Quick, irregular motion (7)FLUTTER7Across10
Photo, a character from long ago: outspoken rogue (8)PICAROON8Across10
No tax on alcohol, perfume etc here (4-4,4)DUTYFREESHOP12Across11
Engaged in drink, CIA annulled cryptic system of old Rome (6,8)JULIANCALENDAR14Across11
Tumble – overthrow (6)TOPPLE6Across13
Plunderers’ music fest in part of Winchester? (5,5)RIFLESTOCK10Across13
Exhausted (4-2)USEDUP6Across14
Prey for an aardvark: one Contra (4)ANTI4Across14
God backflips into canal (4)SUEZ4Across16
Handless timer (7,5)DIGITALWATCH12Across17
Lifted off around two, say: it may require a shot (5,5)FIELDEVENT10Across18
Innocent trust, unworldliness (7)NAIVETY7Across20
White mark on animal’s face – inferno (5)BLAZE5Across21
Get ogress irritated and annoyed with symbol (2,7,5)STGEORGESCROSS14Across21
Underworld river (4)STYX4Across22
Smooth talker on X, say (8)OPERATOR8Across23
Pigs’ feet (8)TROTTERS8Across23
Arrest in general location reversed (6)COLLAR6Across24
Sob stories in Slate? (3,5)SADTALES8Across25
Turkish bigwig covers arse, it may be hidden (6)AGENDA6Across26
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Satisfactory punishment (4)FINE4Down1
Truncheon (4)COSH4Down1
In which you can see all around the world (5)GLOBE5Down1
Dissolute men – in a shed? (5)RAKES5Down2
Ingredient of comfort food covering rear end of Shakespearean (7)MACDUFF7Down2
Steeply sloping, snowy ramp (3,4)SKIJUMP7Down2
‘That is to say’ (2,3)IDEST5Down3
Celebrated rugby player offside (8)LIONISED8Down3
Decent (5,7)FULLYCLOTHED12Down3
‘Tis a ___ scratch!’ (4)MERE4Down4
Bags, blue or shoes (6)OXFORD6Down4
Amoebae and such travelled nautical miles, giving up sex in retrospect (11)ANIMALCULES11Down5
Place, as in an overhead locker (4)STOW4Down5
Lower, but greater (6)MEANER6Down6
H or h (5)AITCH5Down6
Traditional sailor’s dance (8)HORNPIPE8Down7
Originally, source (excessively loud noise) was a sub (5,2)STOODIN7Down7
Chess opening – bisque magnet (anag) (6,6)QUEENSGAMBIT12Down8
Hustler’s damage includes train wreck (3,6)CONARTIST9Down8
Singer wanting cabbage to whip up piece in advance (3,4,4)NATKINGCOLE11Down12
Those engaged in learning (8)STUDENTS8Down12
Don’t play at stalls where Yanks relieve themselves? (4,5)RESTSTOPS9Down13
Drunken peer falls into brewski-chugging contraption in drinkers’ diversion (4,4)BEERPONG8Down15
Lay down with authority (7)DICTATE7Down15
Actor or gamer (6)PLAYER6Down16
E, for Einstein? (7)EGGHEAD7Down17
Coated with ingrained dirt (5)GRIMY5Down18
Part of eye or camera (4)LENS4Down19
€ is based on this Greek character harboured by lone lunatic (7)EPSILON7Down19
75% of plátanos turned into something romantic (6)SONATA6Down20
Killer imprisoned in Windsor Castle (4)ORCA4Down22
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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, August 28, 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.