Crossword Answers for Sunday, 2 August 2026
All 48 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 2 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
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- Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against SUE
- 4
- A man who serves as a sailor TAR
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- Select as an alternative over another OPT
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- A pompous fool ASS
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- The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
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- The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet RHO
- 13
- Sort or variety DESCRIPTION
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- Good hearing EAR
- 17
- Make older AGE
- 18
- A port city in southwestern Brazil on an offshore island near Sao Paulo SANTOS
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- A container; usually has a lid BINS
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- A sizeable hole PIT
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- A gentle blow RAP
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- A tart spicy quality NIP
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- An elaborate song for solo voice ARIA
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- A splendid assemblage GALAXY
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- Informal terms for a mother MAS
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- Break down ROT
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- Professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage MALPRACTICE
- 38
- Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants OIL
- 39
- A lyric poem with complex stanza forms ODE
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- Negation of a word or group of words NON
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- Use diligently PLY
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- A unit of pain intensity DOL
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- A material effigy that is worshipped GOD
Down
- 1
- Bad; unfortunate SAD
- 2
- The act of using USE
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- In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature ESSENTIALLY
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- A very troublesome child TERROR
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- Black tropical American cuckoo ANI
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- A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs REP
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- Bring into being ORIGINATING
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- A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor PHOENIX
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- A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds TON
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- A spiteful woman gossip CAT
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- The bill in a restaurant TAB
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- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
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- A system of conveying mail by aircraft AIRMAIL
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- Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness SAG
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- Catch sight of SPY
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- Divide into parts PARCEL
- 28
- Of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder ASP
- 30
- Any collection in its entirety LOT
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- Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip MOP
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- A gangster's pistol ROD
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- A rapid active commotion ADO
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- Speak softly or lovingly COO
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- A final state END