Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 10, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 10, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Teased, wearing tatty clothes6 letters4.End of play is baffling6 letters9.Love university, but fail4 letters10.Virginia’s eerie quality?10 letters11.A pretentious type rejected one little-grown tree6 letters12.Bubbling tureen is making us very hungry8 letters13.Isolate small wader scratching back at barrier9 letters15.One submissively bent is taken to offer respect4 letters16.Very British marketplace4 letters17.Rehearsal for musical that has prearranged result?9 letters21.Note a mishap, tumbling shawl8 letters22.Edit colourful performance6 letters24.Fondness for use of paperclip10 letters25.Stimulate husband, outwardly feeble4 letters26.Charitable society has new head, a public official6 letters27.Most useless papers in case6 letters
Down
1.Emphasise lost sheep is found?7 letters2.Bill for garden features5 letters3.Eating out as an artistic activity7 letters5.A penny accepted by ticket seller to leave the Tube6 letters6.Some Mormons ignore Catholic dignitary9 letters7.Girl from South America banned, leaving the borders7 letters8.To keep smooth, shave, then change: utter bliss13 letters14.Feeling unwell, throw off outdoor coat9 letters16.Simple skill in bridge7 letters18.Fabric of lowest quality last to be used7 letters19.Very old person’s nice tan misguided7 letters20.Spot that woman’s musical instrument6 letters23.A quantity of drug wife’s swallowed: look for water5 letters
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