Crossword Answers for Wednesday, 12 August 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Wednesday, 12 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
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- Hindu god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara KAMA
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- Informal terms for a mother MOM
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- An individual instance of a type of symbol ITEM
- 9
- Divisible by two EVEN
- 11
- Give an exhibition of to an interested audience DEMO
- 12
- A naked person NUDE
- 13
- Seed vessel having hooks or prickles BUR
- 15
- The force of policemen and officers LAW
- 16
- Someone who arrives ARRIVAL
- 18
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
- 19
- A sizeable hole PIT
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- A former copper coin of Pakistan and India ANNA
- 22
- A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly LIAR
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- Look searchingly PEER
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- Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular LOCO
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- Inquire about ASK
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- Again but in a new or different way ANEW
Down
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- Young goat KID
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- Take in solid food ATE
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- A thin pliable sheet of material MEMBRANES
- 4
- A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship AMOUR
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- A male subordinate MEN
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- The expulsion of an ovum from the ovary OVULATION
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- An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event MEDAL
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- In use after medieval times NEW
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- Tear or be torn violently RIP
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- Transient cessation of respiration APNEA
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- Mexican revolutionary leader VILLA
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- Excavate the earth beneath SAP
- 21
- A boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood ARK
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- Succeed at easily ACE
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- An angry dispute ROW