Puzzler Cryptic puzzle clues 2026 Aug 14

• Bomb's framework (5) Crossword Clue
• Brief Peter Sellers extract (5) Crossword Clue
• Co-ordinate neckwear, fashionable (3-2) Crossword Clue
• Finally delivering rubbish to cave (6) Crossword Clue
• Golf supporter protects the wet apprentice (7) Crossword Clue
• Hear about promotion of capital city (6) Crossword Clue
• In speech, one starts by being truthful (6) Crossword Clue
• Instrument with nothing on is barbed spear (7) Crossword Clue
• I retain odd disinclination to move (7) Crossword Clue
• Large number of pay increases bring troubles (6) Crossword Clue
• Little bird held by PM, not fifty (6) Crossword Clue
• Muscle building substance, so tried out (7) Crossword Clue
• Noise made by key member of a litter? (5) Crossword Clue
• Novice on road emptied load by waterway (1-6) Crossword Clue
• Painting strange forces (6) Crossword Clue
• Partner gets the remaining fifty per cent (5,4) Crossword Clue
• Part of a step in escalator is ergonomic (5) Crossword Clue
• Prefers party gifts (7) Crossword Clue
• Rejected, having governed too much? (9) Crossword Clue
• School head arranged loans for hairdressing establishments (6) Crossword Clue
• Sound of the mouth or of the ear (5) Crossword Clue
• Stories of porter found in back street (5) Crossword Clue
• Tandoori almost destroyed by whirlwind (7) Crossword Clue
• Tuber needing plant holder at back of bistro (6) Crossword Clue
• Two cricketing terms go on too long (7) Crossword Clue
• Understood to be a man (5) Crossword Clue