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The Guardian Crossword September 2 2026 Answers

Wednesday puzzle · 54 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Guardian Crossword September 2 2026 answers. The Wednesday puzzle has 54 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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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Become the best by baking bread or a little rock cake (5,1,6)BREAKA6Across A plastic one has carried a charge since 2015 (3)BAG3Across1 Sphere of action (5)ARENA5Across4 One dampening the mood at social occasion (5-6)PARTYPOOPER11Across5 Snouty mammal (5)COATI5Across6 Orderly (4)TIDY4Across7 Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe artist (5)MANET5Across7 A better plan – finally – to stop game hunters (4,4)BARNOWLS8Across7 Female personification of (usually good) fortune (4,4)LADYLUCK8Across8 Newspaper VIPs (3)EDS3Across8 Nonplussed (2,1,4)ATALOSS7Across9 Bears controlling hunger – they eat carrion (6)HYENAS6Across9 Crew fitting angle brackets (4)GANG4Across10 Venom (5)SPITE5Across11 Just dread spending days working in dark (10)REASONABLE10Across11 Rogue bully by boxing ring (6)COWBOY6Across12 Flavourless (5)BLAND5Across13 Two nurses ignoring half of my request (8)ENTREATY8Across14 Became gradually narrower (7)TAPERED7Across14 Tooth or valve – Cupid sib (anag) (8)BICUSPID8Across16 Helen of ___ (4)TROY4Across17 Aladdin’s mode of transport (5,6)MAGICCARPET11Across18 Watches musical’s opening night – that’s when these things shine! (4-4)CATSEYES8Across20 Live in Le Mans – and the VW? (6)BEETLE6Across22 Cartoon dog bites old woman clutching cat food in tins? (4,6)PLUMTOMATO10Across23 Large hole in one tie (4)LACE4Across24 Part of stag party in strip club getting wrecked in just seconds (6)ANTLER6Across25 Drive a good line in test of acceleration (4,4)DRAGRACE8Across26

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ClueAnswerLettersDirection#
Question weaker body? Try exercising. (One probably sits with a computer all day) (6,8)QWERTY6Down This suggests he took bat for discipline (5,3,4,2)THROWTHE8Down Tesla isn’t working with NYC borough (6,6)STATEN6Down Combat manoeuvres – keeping watch regularly in caves? (8)CATACOMB8Down1 Full of ___ (5)BEANS5Down1 Unravel the end of – brawl (4)FRAY4Down1 Tight biceps after lifting (4)SNUG4Down2 Pay to play (4)ANTE4Down2 Tour de France competitor (7)CYCLIST7Down2 Irritable, with shifting emotional states (5)MOODY5Down3 Trot or canter (4)GAIT4Down3 Dessert – in ___ order (5-3)APPLEPIE8Down4 Vendor of Rocket-Powered Roller Skates (4)ACME4Down4 Dotty art form (11)POINTILLISM11Down5 Imagine taking group of drivers north on M1 to see Coral’s relative? (3,7)SEAANEMONE10Down5 Robert Frost’s was ‘less traveled by’ (4)ROAD4Down5 Make things difficult (4,3,4)ROCKTHEBOAT11Down6 Keep everything in pathetic pocketbook (6)WALLET6Down6 Human speech (8)LANGUAGE8Down10 Accessory associated with Margaret Thatcher (7)HANDBAG7Down12 Mother might express this clumsily – be smart and kind (6,4)BREASTMILK10Down13 Smoked ham – small spot (5)SPECK5Down15 Worm, measure or deck (4)TAPE4Down17 Refinement represented Cecil Day … (8)DELICACY8Down18 … Lewis’s character – conclusively yet obliquely (6)ASLANT6Down21 Decide to swap hands and draw (4)LURE4Down24

About this puzzle

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