The Guardian Crossword August 3 2026 Answers

Monday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 3 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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Focus (13)131 AcrossReveal answer → Disguised male questioned (6)61 AcrossReveal answer → High points (5)51 AcrossReveal answer → Dish of unusual grain (7)74 AcrossReveal answer → Tortoise’s covering (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Start of a tennis point (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → Hair-raising (5)58 AcrossReveal answer → Brass, boy or big? (4)48 AcrossReveal answer → Starving (8)89 AcrossReveal answer → Secret meeting (5)59 AcrossReveal answer → Uncle cuts up plant (9)99 AcrossReveal answer → Raised deck at the front of a ship – clearest of (anag) (10)1010 AcrossReveal answer → Short tenor getting refreshed on and off (5)510 AcrossReveal answer → Sample bit of pasta stealthily (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Fumbled shot (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Make speech after European scientist’s workplace gets involved (9)912 AcrossReveal answer → Bill quietly left a club? (7)713 AcrossReveal answer → Trivial matter (6)614 AcrossReveal answer → Root of change I proposed initially (6)615 AcrossReveal answer → UK parliament’s emblem (10)1015 AcrossReveal answer → Effigy of union’s leader embraced by nation (6)617 AcrossReveal answer → Brief note concerning one Conservative snorting cocaine (7)719 AcrossReveal answer → Peak pudding? (8)819 AcrossReveal answer → Gallagher or Coward? (4)420 AcrossReveal answer → Futility (13)1321 AcrossReveal answer → That woman sorted out table with a hot drink (6,3)922 AcrossReveal answer → Pleased with mouse finally finding space in forest (5)524 AcrossReveal answer → Smooths out chains (5)526 AcrossReveal answer → Mugger is idiot upset by six footer (9)927 AcrossReveal answer → Quibbler holds new medallion (7)728 AcrossReveal answer → Hammered bachelor put away (6)629 AcrossReveal answer →

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Fail to attend precious flipping trip (7)71 DownReveal answer → Money in the bank, say (5)51 DownReveal answer → Request for help involving Calvin Klein footwear (5)52 DownReveal answer → Haydn’s The Creation, say (8)82 DownReveal answer → Say ‘hurray’, say (5)52 DownReveal answer → Like Shakespeare’s wives of Windsor (5)53 DownReveal answer → Former ride-share company worker is vivacious (9)93 DownReveal answer → Specialist team (5)53 DownReveal answer → Graceland idol (5)54 DownReveal answer → Withdraw from English area after start of revolution (7)74 DownReveal answer → Tell a story (7)74 DownReveal answer → Metal fastening (5)55 DownReveal answer → Traitor I love in proportion (5)55 DownReveal answer → Icy winter shower (5)55 DownReveal answer → Most nerve-racking (7)76 DownReveal answer → Pub ban before Scotsman gets savage (9)96 DownReveal answer → Work of art (4)47 DownReveal answer → Former X contributor without sway (6)67 DownReveal answer → Protect upstanding US agent on border (6)68 DownReveal answer → Lacking compassion (8)811 DownReveal answer → Cartoon punchline / label (7)713 DownReveal answer → PM behind expression of hesitation regarding accepting refusal (9)914 DownReveal answer → The ______ of Malfi, John Webster play (7)714 DownReveal answer → Majestic (5)516 DownReveal answer → Try rising during sincere broadcast for Grant (9)916 DownReveal answer → Natural fabric prone to creasing (5)517 DownReveal answer → Working-class, local or folk? (4)418 DownReveal answer → Competitor in event ran tirelessly (7)718 DownReveal answer → Is a lie tricky to communicate? (6)619 DownReveal answer → Be unfaithful to Charlie with passion and touching (5,2)720 DownReveal answer → Small person parking next to quiet verge (6)621 DownReveal answer → Disorganised leaders of army training session elicit apathy (2,3)523 DownReveal answer → Anticipate a pressure for auditor (5)525 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Monday, August 3, 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.