The Guardian Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Aug 20

• About negative introduction, admission of meanie who delivers jabs? (9) Crossword Clue
• Angry outburst about small fight (5,6) Crossword Clue
• Builds lead in constituency, embraced by Tory supporters (10) Crossword Clue
• Closely observing vote in favour, with subsequent outcry heard (10) Crossword Clue
• Compose crosswords at home to become established (3,2) Crossword Clue
• Crazy MAGA ran America as a repeated crime, for instance (7) Crossword Clue
• Doctor's beginning new round, confused and extremely distant (4,5) Crossword Clue
• Endure like this clue (4) Crossword Clue
• Excel on course in skill, not in approach (8) Crossword Clue
• Get across what's central to crossword? Separate out valuable bits (4) Crossword Clue
• Girl's name forming part of solution (6) Crossword Clue
• Good lesson as example of double definition (5) Crossword Clue
• Happens to meet - as any intersecting answer here does (4,6) Crossword Clue
• In part of Florida, wife or daughter located crucial elements (3,5) Crossword Clue
• … is 21 reversed? So it is! (4) Crossword Clue
• Kind of setter one's figured out? Produced solution again (11) Crossword Clue
• Like certain answers in relation to clues, some of which I'd denigrate (6) Crossword Clue
• Like the most one can do, in terms of manual employment (3-6) Crossword Clue
• Little Women, for example, in half a reel? (8) Crossword Clue
• Nothing in numbers is changed as result of moving 15 (10) Crossword Clue
• Part of bloomer in Guardian? There you have it (6) Crossword Clue
• Program's producer, person able to handle Morse, say (5) Crossword Clue
• Rector having letter forwarded? It's about one name for God (7) Crossword Clue
• River plant may spread in profusion (9) Crossword Clue
• Solidly constructed - one's mad to change it (7) Crossword Clue
• Something solvers may lack - and so were not finished (6) Crossword Clue
• Traumatized son held by uncle outside (7) Crossword Clue
• Turn back on monster (4) Crossword Clue
• Way to address lady in Mother's Union (5) Crossword Clue
• Wordplay known to Greeks, Socratic sort (8) Crossword Clue