The Sun Crossword August 2 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 56 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all the The Sun Crossword August 2 2026 answers. The Sunday puzzle has 56 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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Wash up around Charlie, giving an indistinct sound (5)SCHWA5Across1 Neutral vowel (5)SCHWA5Across1 Refrain, as alarm going round the world (7)FORBEAR7Across4 Avoid voluntarily (7)FORBEAR7Across4 Book tract of land with particular purpose (7)RESERVE7Across8 Reticence (7)RESERVE7Across8 Intends names to change (5)MEANS5Across9 Resources (5)MEANS5Across9 Claim wish is outrageous and fanciful (9)WHIMSICAL9Across10 Capricious (9)WHIMSICAL9Across10 Charm some microbiologists (3)OBI3Across11 Kind of witchcraft (3)OBI3Across11 See revolutionary punching revolutionary for dairy product (6)CHEESE6Across12 Food made from coagulated milk curds (6)CHEESE6Across12 Content of shed, I blethered, is suitable for consumption (6)EDIBLE6Across14 Able to be eaten (6)EDIBLE6Across14 Tree devastated by disease in recent decades (3)ELM3Across17 Tree in Chelmsford (3)ELM3Across17 Apostates (9)RENEGADES9Across19 See danger at sea for rebels (9)RENEGADES9Across19 It joins a door to its frame (5)HINGE5Across22 Complain when wife's removed joint (5)HINGE5Across22 Reception room (7)PARLOUR7Across23 Briefly dangerous Republican in sitting room (7)PARLOUR7Across23 Guest (7)VISITOR7Across24 Holidaymaker Victor is to run across Italy (7)VISITOR7Across24 Pretentious rubbish (5)HOKUM5Across25 Dull to have kiss, initially, for husband? Nonsense (5)HOKUM5Across25

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Prison officer (5)SCREW5Down1 Con small company (5)SCREW5Down1 Relating to an enemy (7)HOSTILE7Down2 Unfriendly, sit awkwardly in gap (7)HOSTILE7Down2 Wall hanging (5)ARRAS5Down3 Familiar rascal hides tapestry (5)ARRAS5Down3 Romance language (6)FRENCH6Down4 Dawn, perhaps, following with spanner, originally lost (6)FRENCH6Down4 Untidy (7)RUMPLED7Down5 Hind part of animal was at the front, dishevelled (7)RUMPLED7Down5 Muse of lyric love poetry (5)ERATO5Down6 Time to Muse (5)ERATO5Down6 Take a breath, as Pierre's drunk (7)RESPIRE7Down7 Inhale and exhale (7)RESPIRE7Down7 He wrote The Cherry Orchard (7)CHEKHOV7Down12 Mark with a tick outspoken Russian author (7)CHEKHOV7Down12 Certain it includes force, in excess (7)SURFEIT7Down13 Overindulgence (7)SURFEIT7Down13 Fundamental principles of live piece of dance music (7)BEDROCK7Down15 Foundation (7)BEDROCK7Down15 Shooter pins back ears regularly (6)SNIPER6Down16 One who criticises from position of security (6)SNIPER6Down16 Star setter's upset less (5)MINUS5Down18 Less than zero (5)MINUS5Down18 Rig up most of the perimeter (5)GIRTH5Down20 Circumference (5)GIRTH5Down20 Play guitar with an upward or downward movement (5)STRUM5Down21 Sweeping action in street? Strange (5)STRUM5Down21

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This page lists every clue and answer from the The Sun crossword published on Sunday, August 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.