Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 28, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 28, 2026
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Across
1.Iron Man is a woman6 letters4.Criticise character from Athens, thus creating sort of poetry8 letters9.Snack: portion of spinach ossobuco6 letters10.Photo, a character from long ago: outspoken rogue8 letters11.Engaged in drink, CIA annulled cryptic system of old Rome14 letters13.Plunderers’ music fest in part of Winchester?10 letters14.Prey for an aardvark: one Contra4 letters16.God backflips into canal4 letters18.Lifted off around two, say: it may require a shot10 letters21.Get ogress irritated and annoyed with symbol14 letters23.Smooth talker on X, say8 letters24.Arrest in general location reversed6 letters25.Sob stories in Slate?8 letters26.Turkish bigwig covers arse, it may be hidden6 letters
Down
1.Satisfactory punishment4 letters2.Ingredient of comfort food covering rear end of Shakespearean7 letters3.Celebrated rugby player offside8 letters5.Amoebae and such travelled nautical miles, giving up sex in retrospect11 letters6.Lower, but greater6 letters7.Originally, source (excessively loud noise) was a sub7 letters8.Hustler’s damage includes train wreck9 letters12.Singer wanting cabbage to whip up piece in advance11 letters13.Don’t play at stalls where Yanks relieve themselves?9 letters15.Drunken peer falls into brewski-chugging contraption in drinkers’ diversion8 letters17.E, for Einstein?7 letters19.€ is based on this Greek character harboured by lone lunatic7 letters20.75% of plátanos turned into something romantic6 letters22.Killer imprisoned in Windsor Castle4 letters
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