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Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 17, 2026

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Puzzle date

August 17, 2026

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Across

9.Not the first to risk travel at a leisurely pace5 letters 10.Rocks falling and getting into dell is ruinous9 letters 11.Old nip of rum I drink too, without finishing first shots9 letters 12.Space put by, but oddly nothing inside5 letters 13.Turned and ran away, clutching Zippo but dropping case7 letters 15.Part in test regarding the way planets travel7 letters 17.Snow leopard jumps without limits5 letters 18.Harsh fightback3 letters 20.Central pub evacuated earlier5 letters 22.Be taken the wrong way during rendezvous, creating arguments7 letters 25.Naturally produced grain ruined through company backtracking7 letters 26.Pitman’s system finally starts to introduce new, easy recording5 letters 27.Devout priest, German, in South American city with us9 letters 30.Commanding Officer had info about who’s hunting whom?9 letters 31.Constructed crowns of bronze using intricate latticework techniques5 letters

Down

1.Mexican snack stack – hot, without any wrappers4 letters 2.Forgetfulness leads to open bolts – then four being eaten by wild cat8 letters 3.Still one imagined terrifying creature from the Himalayas4 letters 4.Sister Edna eloped, heading north, carrying flowering plant8 letters 5.In France a supermarket sacking head to become international organisation6 letters 6.Absolute chaos, upset jewellery – piecing it all together?10 letters 7.Floppy elephant with no stuffing for clingy type6 letters 8.Tax bill came at last – virtually cleared out4 letters 13.Scourge of old?5 letters 14.Our copter’s flying around island territory10 letters 16.Inadvertently Rickrolled – but only part of the words!5 letters 19.An odd owl disturbed some trees8 letters 21.Safe ‘n’ sound? Two extinct every second!8 letters 23.Welsh city’s non-governmental organisation gathered by bar6 letters 24.Flow of vapour engulfing opening of railway6 letters 26.Greek character with very loud furry garment4 letters 28.Desert old boy, captured by US soldier4 letters 29.Place, place and, finally, place4 letters

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