Crossword Answers for Saturday, 22 August 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Saturday, 22 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
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- A group of aquatic mammals POD
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- A pompous fool ASS
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- A personal view IDEA
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- An abrupt transition LEAP
- 11
- Spicy sauce often containing chocolate MOLE
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- The highest point ACME
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- Earlier in time PRIOR
- 15
- A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs REP
- 16
- A short pithy saying expressing a general truth GNOME
- 18
- The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
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- A participant in a date DATES
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- A small shelter for domestic animals COTE
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- An aspect of something SIDE
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- At that time THEN
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- A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring SODA
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- Not used up ODD
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- A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies NYS
Down
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- Arrange for sexual partners for others PIMP
- 2
- Any property detected by the olfactory system ODOR
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- Take delight in DELIGHTED
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- A wing of an insect ALA
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- The organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance SECRETION
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- Equal in amount or value SAME
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- An immeasurably long period of time AEON
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- Liveliness and energy PEP
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- A gangster's pistol ROD
- 17
- The common people generally MASS
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- Play a role or part ACT
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- A city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs SOHO
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- Founder of Christian Science in 1866 EDDY
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- Turbulent water with swells of considerable size SEAS
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- A final state END