The Guardian Crossword August 7 2026 Answers
Friday puzzle · 64 clues · ✓ All answers verified
Below are all 64 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for August 7 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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Positive thinking (8)81 AcrossReveal answer →
Advantage of computerised identikit picture when pursuing crook virtually (7)71 AcrossReveal answer →
Disappointing firework (3)31 AcrossReveal answer →
Thin French pancake (5)54 AcrossReveal answer →
Spotted predator – shark is caught (7)75 AcrossReveal answer →
Bird with ability to mimic human voice (4)45 AcrossReveal answer →
Cars (5)56 AcrossReveal answer →
Cheap wine (5)57 AcrossReveal answer →
Same-__ marriage (3)38 AcrossReveal answer →
Young male nurse is loaded (5)59 AcrossReveal answer →
Beaton or B. DeMille? (5)59 AcrossReveal answer →
Tea, cream – not full fat – oddly it’s a Cambodian delicacy (9)910 AcrossReveal answer →
Gymnastic entertainer (7)710 AcrossReveal answer →
Call Musk with Washington opening that ought to bear fruit (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer →
Not sincere (12)1211 AcrossReveal answer →
Two Americans holding back on driving range (3)312 AcrossReveal answer →
Sid – or Julius? (6)613 AcrossReveal answer →
One of the family – or one of the gang? (6)614 AcrossReveal answer →
Pop singer’s ill – lie about swallowing pill in trashed Ibis hotel (6,6)1214 AcrossReveal answer →
Must-have (12)1217 AcrossReveal answer →
TV star barking cruelly at crew (6.6)1218 AcrossReveal answer →
Runs in tights (7)720 AcrossReveal answer →
Apply (oneself) (5)521 AcrossReveal answer →
Bow and scrape while retreating to some extent (3)321 AcrossReveal answer →
Hunk needing reason to start op-ed? (5,5)1022 AcrossReveal answer →
Follow orders (4)422 AcrossReveal answer →
Mint (5-3)823 AcrossReveal answer →
Corrupt state maybe does if cutting back (9)925 AcrossReveal answer →
Initially in sonatas, Liszt enjoyed this minor key (5)526 AcrossReveal answer →
Expensive – taking 150 Euros, say (7)727 AcrossReveal answer →
In bed, weary, drinking wine – quite the opposite (7)728 AcrossReveal answer →
Down
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On vacation Bradley Walsh ultimately ignored resort’s in-house rules? (6)61 DownReveal answer →
As soon as (4)41 DownReveal answer →
Rehab procedure (5)51 DownReveal answer →
‘Once __ a time … ’ (4)42 DownReveal answer →
Nice to touch (7)72 DownReveal answer →
Finally – given you identified graffiti artist – Banksy’s in exposed state (6)62 DownReveal answer →
Escritoire (4)43 DownReveal answer →
In France and in Germany, shaver sounded 1 across? (4-6)103 DownReveal answer →
Having many aspects (12)123 DownReveal answer →
Tax article without it (5)54 DownReveal answer →
WHAT THIS CLUE IS WRITTEN IN (4)44 DownReveal answer →
Hirsute (6)64 DownReveal answer →
My friend entertains men with essentially new material (9)95 DownReveal answer →
Govern (4)45 DownReveal answer →
Lout (5)56 DownReveal answer →
Ages in prison’s manure shed (4)46 DownReveal answer →
A film star cycles and waves (8)87 DownReveal answer →
Creative skill (8)87 DownReveal answer →
1818 Mary Shelley novel (12)128 DownReveal answer →
Pine nut’s beginning to be problem (8)88 DownReveal answer →
Resort on Mexico’s Pacific coast (8)812 DownReveal answer →
School paid to spin results in mock (10)1013 DownReveal answer →
Conducted lessons in English, with students covering tenses – one might appear with a smile (5,4)915 DownReveal answer →
In the middle of (7)715 DownReveal answer →
Leaves power drills on the counter, securely fastened (8)816 DownReveal answer →
It marks one’s place on a computer (6)616 DownReveal answer →
Sedative not applicable on piercing in the middle of the ear (8)817 DownReveal answer →
Comedian Murphy or Frasier dog (5)518 DownReveal answer →
Simmer (with anger perhaps) (4)419 DownReveal answer →
Stock of wine merchant delivered (6)619 DownReveal answer →
Gossipy magazine journalist is excited (6)620 DownReveal answer →
Lowest point of brain drain with regular emigration climbing (5)523 DownReveal answer →
Excellent, for example, to be Morocco-bound (4)424 DownReveal answer →
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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Friday, August 7, 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.