Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 26, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 26, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
9.Big Apple’s best ever on bread – and butter9 letters10.Possible sickener, incomplete story of environmentalism?5 letters11.Father, forward in motion …7 letters12.… priest entering job7 letters13.Deputy Viking perhaps flayed4 letters14.European city recovering from disappointment, investing not as much10 letters16.A burden for a Titan in debt – Lord have mercy!7 letters17.Describing a vessel – whimsically or not?7 letters19.Kid’s knocked over shed one rebuilt – a wind-up for the horticulturalist?10 letters22.Building unit razed to the ground?4 letters24.After embroidering, sender wraps uniform for purchaser7 letters25.Pink paper is tucked inside permit, red7 letters26.I don’t want you, old bean, in fruit …5 letters27.… and similarly in veg?9 letters
Down
1.Quite friendly person playing with mates, man paying a visit15 letters2.How one might make bid, terribly8 letters3.Revolution trammelled by democracy, clearly5 letters4.Old drama served up with opera in state capital8 letters5.Small strips in small bone6 letters6.Descent as intolerance of spirit reported?9 letters7.Country in defeat like that, 5-06 letters8.LIST, say, how Trump sees Canada?15 letters15.Book in cypher so encrypted for etailer9 letters17.Fraction outside of second, swimmer pushing hard?8 letters18.Something possibly sugared in water turned up, sweet8 letters20.Sound clothes I had on6 letters21.Run over manuscript for secluded groups6 letters23.Routinely concerned with all one’s toes?5 letters
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