The Guardian Crossword September 2 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 54 clues from the The Guardian Crossword for September 2 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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Become the best by baking bread or a little rock cake (5,1,6)6 AcrossReveal answer → A plastic one has carried a charge since 2015 (3)31 AcrossReveal answer → Sphere of action (5)54 AcrossReveal answer → One dampening the mood at social occasion (5-6)115 AcrossReveal answer → Snouty mammal (5)56 AcrossReveal answer → Orderly (4)47 AcrossReveal answer → Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe artist (5)57 AcrossReveal answer → A better plan – finally – to stop game hunters (4,4)87 AcrossReveal answer → Female personification of (usually good) fortune (4,4)88 AcrossReveal answer → Newspaper VIPs (3)38 AcrossReveal answer → Nonplussed (2,1,4)79 AcrossReveal answer → Bears controlling hunger – they eat carrion (6)69 AcrossReveal answer → Crew fitting angle brackets (4)410 AcrossReveal answer → Venom (5)511 AcrossReveal answer → Just dread spending days working in dark (10)1011 AcrossReveal answer → Rogue bully by boxing ring (6)612 AcrossReveal answer → Flavourless (5)513 AcrossReveal answer → Two nurses ignoring half of my request (8)814 AcrossReveal answer → Became gradually narrower (7)714 AcrossReveal answer → Tooth or valve – Cupid sib (anag) (8)816 AcrossReveal answer → Helen of ___ (4)417 AcrossReveal answer → Aladdin’s mode of transport (5,6)1118 AcrossReveal answer → Watches musical’s opening night – that’s when these things shine! (4-4)820 AcrossReveal answer → Live in Le Mans – and the VW? (6)622 AcrossReveal answer → Cartoon dog bites old woman clutching cat food in tins? (4,6)1023 AcrossReveal answer → Large hole in one tie (4)424 AcrossReveal answer → Part of stag party in strip club getting wrecked in just seconds (6)625 AcrossReveal answer → Drive a good line in test of acceleration (4,4)826 AcrossReveal answer →

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Question weaker body? Try exercising. (One probably sits with a computer all day) (6,8)6 DownReveal answer → This suggests he took bat for discipline (5,3,4,2)8 DownReveal answer → Tesla isn’t working with NYC borough (6,6)6 DownReveal answer → Combat manoeuvres – keeping watch regularly in caves? (8)81 DownReveal answer → Full of ___ (5)51 DownReveal answer → Unravel the end of – brawl (4)41 DownReveal answer → Tight biceps after lifting (4)42 DownReveal answer → Pay to play (4)42 DownReveal answer → Tour de France competitor (7)72 DownReveal answer → Irritable, with shifting emotional states (5)53 DownReveal answer → Trot or canter (4)43 DownReveal answer → Dessert – in ___ order (5-3)84 DownReveal answer → Vendor of Rocket-Powered Roller Skates (4)44 DownReveal answer → Dotty art form (11)115 DownReveal answer → Imagine taking group of drivers north on M1 to see Coral’s relative? (3,7)105 DownReveal answer → Robert Frost’s was ‘less traveled by’ (4)45 DownReveal answer → Make things difficult (4,3,4)116 DownReveal answer → Keep everything in pathetic pocketbook (6)66 DownReveal answer → Human speech (8)810 DownReveal answer → Accessory associated with Margaret Thatcher (7)712 DownReveal answer → Mother might express this clumsily – be smart and kind (6,4)1013 DownReveal answer → Smoked ham – small spot (5)515 DownReveal answer → Worm, measure or deck (4)417 DownReveal answer → Refinement represented Cecil Day … (8)818 DownReveal answer → … Lewis’s character – conclusively yet obliquely (6)621 DownReveal answer → Decide to swap hands and draw (4)424 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the The Guardian crossword published on Wednesday, September 2, 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.