Daily Mirror Quiz Crossword
Mirror Quiz Crossword Answers & Hints - August 24, 2026
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August 24, 2026
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Across
1.William -, WBA Middleweight champion from 1996-97 (5)5 letters4.German submarine in World Wars I and II (1-4)5 letters10.University in Birmingham founded in 1966 (5)5 letters11.Hebrew prophet whose book of the Old Testament condemns the Edomites (7)7 letters12.Broderick -, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for All the King’s Men (8)8 letters13.1964 action film starring Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins (4)4 letters15.Stephen -, 1992-96 world snooker champion (6)6 letters17.Unit of length equal to six feet used to measure depths of water (6)6 letters19.Large desert in E Asia (4)4 letters20.Seal ornamented with a sunken design rather than one in relief (8)8 letters23.Greig -, rugby union scrum-half whose 2010 Scotland Test debut was against New Zealand (7)7 letters24.Young eel (5)5 letters25.& 5D Down Neolithic village in the Orkney Islands, NE Scotland (5,4)5 letters26.Sharon -, Best Actress Golden Globe winner for 1995 gangster film Casino (5)5 letters
Down
2.Town that served as the port of ancient Rome (5)5 letters3.W H -, Australia Test cricketer who hit 266 against England at the Oval in 1934 (8)8 letters5.see 25 Across (4)4 letters6.In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction (7)7 letters7.Artist whose works include 1929’s The Woman and the Roses (4,7)11 letters8.Martin -, former England rugby union captain whose 1997 Test debut was against Argentina (5)5 letters9.Tropical Asian tree whose seeds yield an oil formerly used to treat leprosy (11)11 letters14.Ring-necked -, small, brightly-coloured, long-tailed bird and the UK’s only naturalised parrot (8)8 letters16.Former no 9 iron in golf that gave a great deal of lift (7)7 letters18.- Mountains, range of peaks within the Australian Alps whose highest point is Mount Kosciusko (5)5 letters21.Loch -, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (5)5 letters22.In music, a legato performance of a melodic interval of two or more notes in a part (4)4 letters
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