Crossword Answers for Wednesday, 5 August 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Wednesday, 5 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Put in a horizontal position LAY
- 4
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
- 7
- New Zealand eel TUNA
- 8
- An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint AURA
- 10
- Separate (a metal) from an ore EXTRACTED
- 12
- Have need of NEEDS
- 13
- Bad; unfortunate SAD
- 14
- Term of address for a man SIR
- 16
- The left eye ORA
- 19
- Flesh of a duck DUCKS
- 23
- A female ballet dancer BALLERINA
- 25
- Assign a location to SITE
- 26
- A tiny piece of anything ATOM
- 27
- Be almost asleep NOD
- 28
- Leave unchanged LET
Down
- 1
- Elegant and sumptuous LUXE
- 2
- Place one's stake ANTE
- 3
- A unit of volume YARDS
- 4
- An enclosed space SAC
- 5
- Attribute or give PUTS
- 6
- A subject of study AREA
- 7
- Being one more than nine TEN
- 9
- Bestow a quality on ADD
- 11
- Out of the way ASIDE
- 15
- Living in or characteristic of farming or country life RURAL
- 16
- The branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother OBS
- 17
- Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive RAIN
- 18
- The lowest female singing voice ALTO
- 20
- Make reference to CITE
- 21
- A tight cluster of people or things KNOT
- 22
- A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target SAM
- 24
- Be in charge of LED