Guardian Prize Crossword
Latest Guardian Prize Crossword Answers, Clues & Hints — August 15, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 15, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Specially illuminated set of old books torn on the outside7 letters5.Wine that’s drunk always cold makes a pile for the country dweller7 letters10.Coke spells out end of dryness for the moment4 letters11.Moving awkwardly using clutch when straddling warning sign10 letters12.Old rustics admitting love for pretender Don6 letters13.Fate is pursuing learner with pains8 letters14.Blooming fellow needs taking down9 letters16.See 175 letters17.A useless beginning – what’s after lasts, possibly5 letters19.A coterie’s unusual mysteries?9 letters23.Punished rogue primarily, one is in stir, right?8 letters24.See problem with drinking too much port? Switch off6 letters26.Leader of America having courageous style? Is twisted inside, showing bluntness10 letters27.Muck covering a woman lured into the garden?4 letters28.Little woman grabbing baddy, head of English in school7 letters29.What Adam became after realisation of nudity? Fellow looking embarrassed7 letters
Down
2.Bird, one on lake after daily drink?7 letters3.The royal I found in upsetting fate – it’s absorbing?5 letters4.One bit of nut is stuck in my tooth7 letters6.A bishop must get by, having welcomed a Catholic in ecclesiastical office6 letters7.Conservative minister entertaining those from the ranks – someone putting the record straight?9 letters8.Like tree worse affected by fungus – one penetrating horse chestnut7 letters9.The old way engineer catches fish with something wooden13 letters15.Rod collects wood and stone to make item of furniture9 letters18.Beginning of intensive care organised to save old boy reliant on oxygen7 letters20.Cry in the country – gentry ultimately trapped in multi-storey house?7 letters21.Stylish dressmaking not in fashion – external remedy needed7 letters22.Trendy business not enjoying healthy state6 letters25.Let me have a piece of string immediately5 letters
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