Daily Mirror Quiz Crossword
Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers & Hints - August 21, 2026
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August 21, 2026
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Across
1.Young British Artist whose works include 1997 sculpture Pauline Bunny (5,5)10 letters8.Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of a play by Euripides (7)7 letters9.2012 novella by Susan Hill subtitled A Ghost Story (5)5 letters10.& 25A 2013 novel by David Baldacci (4,3,7)4 letters11.Tobias —, German golfer; 2002 TNT Dutch Open tournament winner (4)4 letters12.see 4 Down (3)3 letters14.Hard silvery-white metal; symbol Os (6)6 letters15.Jacques —, prime minister of France from 1986-88 (6)6 letters18.Large bronze musical horn found in Danish peat bogs dating back to the Bronze Age (3)3 letters20.Graeme —, 2006 World Snooker Championship winner (4)4 letters21.Denis —, Belgium-born Ghana full-back at Fulham FC from 2016-22 (4)4 letters23.New town in Drenthe, northeast Netherlands, developed since World War II (5)5 letters24.City in Virginia, US, housing the man-made Mill Mountain Star (7)7 letters25.see 10 Across (3,7)10 letters
Down
1.Long flat vertical bone in man also called the breastbone (7)7 letters2.& 19D Actress who played Lily MacBeth in 1955 crime film Joe MacBeth (4,5)4 letters3.Goddess of the hearth and its fire in Greek mythology (6)6 letters4.& 12A 1954 novel by Iris Murdoch (5,3,3)8 letters5.& 22D Co-founder, with brothers Richard and John, of Penguin Books in 1935 (5,4)5 letters6.1970s ITV musical comedy-drama series starring Julie Covington, Rula Lenska and Charlotte Cornwell (4,7)11 letters7.2003 crime drama film starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins (6,5)11 letters13.First part of the small intestine (8)8 letters16.Small finch such as the Arctic — or lesser — (7)7 letters17.Genus of trees from which gum resin benzoin is obtained (6)6 letters19.see 2 Down (5)5 letters22.see 5 Down (4)4 letters
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