Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 20, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 20, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Crazy MAGA ran America as a repeated crime, for instance7 letters5.Traumatized son held by uncle outside7 letters9.Compose crosswords at home to become established5 letters10.River plant may spread in profusion9 letters11.Closely observing vote in favour, with subsequent outcry heard10 letters12.… is 21 reversed? So it is!4 letters14.Kind of setter one’s figured out? Produced solution again11 letters18.Angry outburst about small fight11 letters21.Turn back on monster4 letters22.Nothing in numbers is changed as result of moving 1510 letters25.Like the most one can do, in terms of manual employment9 letters26.Program’s producer, person able to handle Morse, say5 letters27.Rector having letter forwarded? It’s about one name for God7 letters28.Solidly constructed – one’s mad to change it7 letters
Down
1.Something solvers may lack – and so were not finished6 letters2.Part of bloomer in Guardian? There you have it6 letters3.Happens to meet – as any intersecting answer here does10 letters4.Good lesson as example of double definition5 letters5.About negative introduction, admission of meanie who delivers jabs?9 letters6.Get across what’s central to crossword? Separate out valuable bits4 letters7.Excel on course in skill, not in approach8 letters8.In part of Florida, wife or daughter located crucial elements8 letters13.Builds lead in constituency, embraced by Tory supporters10 letters15.Doctor’s beginning new round, confused and extremely distant9 letters16.Wordplay known to Greeks, Socratic sort8 letters17.Little Women, for example, in half a reel?8 letters19.Like certain answers in relation to clues, some of which I’d denigrate6 letters20.Girl’s name forming part of solution6 letters23.Way to address lady in Mother’s Union5 letters24.Endure like this clue4 letters
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