Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - August 4, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 4, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Customized bicycle’s hollow wheel feature7 letters5.Located outside building’s entrance, Ladies sadly put out of action7 letters9.Fetches round container with sweets (not drugs) as sacrifices5 letters10.See 99 letters11.A meaningful area of study9 letters12.Use sleight of hand with ace? Capital!5 letters13.Pull it out to eject large bulb5 letters15.Championship register reportedly taken by lead player?9 letters18.Vehicle gives way, getting around a river9 letters19.Was an MP your heartless lecher?5 letters21.Organisation is the essence of paradox, famously5 letters23.Reserve: quiet little creature’s novel resting place9 letters25.Carpets, top sort, woven for Rugby?9 letters26.See 255 letters27.Casanova gets a new top for chemical solution7 letters28.Disagreeable one having fun touring in China7 letters
Down
1.Tabby is sickly – mind the mites7 letters2.Communication made meaningless by this climber9 letters3.A lot of figure5 letters4.Foreign cities limiting energy and temperature in vain9 letters5.Fancy backing with fibrous edges for cut flowers5 letters6.How disciplinarians show restraint describing a dress?9 letters7.Stock bar with drink – 1/3 off5 letters8.Net Tennyson carried regularly7 letters14.Blown up – impact spread over northern Brussels9 letters16.Mixed up rotor with BP engine9 letters17.Moving position of horseshoe?9 letters18.Northwesterner has to rummage around Kent etc7 letters20.Denial of tearful drunk7 letters22.Dispute about queen’s dream interpreter5 letters23.‘Beer time’s off!’ one snaps5 letters24.Shut your mouth after ejecting hot Italian starter snack?5 letters
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