Crossword Answers for Tuesday, 4 August 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Tuesday, 4 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Pass the tongue over LAP
- 4
- The hoop from which the net is suspended RIM
- 7
- Be overcome by a sudden fear PANIC
- 9
- A rapid active commotion ADO
- 10
- Something copied or derived from an original IMITATION
- 12
- The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen PEL
- 13
- Mexican revolutionary leader VILLA
- 14
- A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric MAC
- 15
- Commonly encountered USUAL
- 18
- A wing of an insect ALA
- 21
- Not commercially motivated NONPROFIT
- 23
- Two items of the same kind DUI
- 24
- Tell or spin a yarn YARNS
- 25
- Select as an alternative over another OPT
- 26
- Eggs of female fish ROE
Down
- 1
- Disabled in the feet or legs LAME
- 2
- A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically ANIL
- 3
- A sizeable hole PIT
- 4
- A horizontal bar RAIL
- 5
- A material effigy that is worshipped IDOL
- 6
- An island to the northwest of Wales MONA
- 7
- Defeat thoroughly PIP
- 8
- A highly mobile army unit CAVALRY
- 11
- A local and habitual twitching especially in the face TIC
- 14
- Plan, delineate, or arrange in detail MAP
- 15
- Cause to become loose UNDO
- 16
- An unfortunate situation SOUP
- 17
- A single undivided whole UNIT
- 18
- A rounded thickly curled hairdo AFRO
- 19
- A fortified position LINE
- 20
- 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos ATS
- 22
- An implement used to propel or steer a boat OAR