Crossword Answers for Monday, 17 August 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Monday, 17 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Very familiar OLD
- 4
- A male human offspring SON
- 7
- Give a point to TAPER
- 9
- Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder HAY
- 10
- A mechanism that puts something into automatic action ACTUATORS
- 12
- The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet PHI
- 13
- The waging of armed conflict against an enemy WAR
- 14
- A truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together SEMI
- 16
- Informal terms for the leg PEGS
- 19
- Append one's signature to INK
- 21
- A toilet in Britain LOO
- 22
- A stopping CESSATION
- 25
- Make older AGE
- 26
- Recall or remembrance MINDS
- 27
- Alone and on your own TOD
- 28
- Succeed at easily ACE
Down
- 1
- Act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world OPTIMISED
- 2
- The basic unit of money in Moldova LEU
- 3
- A gully that is shallower than a ravine DRAW
- 4
- A boundary line between land and water SHORELINE
- 5
- An implement used to propel or steer a boat OAR
- 6
- A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies NYS
- 7
- A gentle blow TAPS
- 8
- Feel physical pain ACHE
- 11
- A gentle blow TAP
- 15
- A state in midwestern United States INS
- 17
- Morally admirable GOOD
- 18
- A male human offspring SONS
- 20
- Hindu god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara KAMA
- 22
- A spiteful woman gossip CAT
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- The conscious mind EGO
- 24
- A local and habitual twitching especially in the face TIC