Crossword Answers for Sunday, 30 August 2026
All 44 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 30 August 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- A clever remark MOT
- 4
- A highly desirable position or assignment PLUM
- 8
- Sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties PEAR
- 9
- Located outside OUTER
- 11
- The accent in a metrical foot of verse METRE
- 12
- Any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical OXIDE
- 13
- The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
- 14
- To make a mistake or be incorrect ERR
- 16
- Tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive LIE
- 17
- Someone from whom you are descended ROOT
- 19
- A pass to a receiver downfield from the passer AERIAL
- 21
- Expect and wish DESIRES
- 23
- An unauthorized copy or imitation CLONES
- 25
- An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk DADS
- 28
- Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants OIL
- 29
- Examine carefully VET
- 31
- In addition TOO
- 32
- Street names for marijuana SMOKE
- 34
- An aromatic flavorful vegetable ONION
- 36
- A fierce or audacious person TIGER
- 37
- Opportunity for ROOM
- 38
- A river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea TYNE
- 39
- A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers INN
Down
- 1
- The system of methods followed in a particular discipline METHODOLOGY
- 2
- An implement used to propel or steer a boat OAR
- 3
- Stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree TREE
- 4
- Unsatisfactory POORER
- 5
- A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle LUX
- 6
- The act of using UTILISATION
- 7
- The surrounding environment MEDIA
- 8
- The basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos PESO
- 10
- Walk as if unable to control one's movements REEL
- 11
- Make imperfect MAR
- 15
- An upward slope or grade RAISE
- 18
- Being one more than nine TEN
- 20
- The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue RED
- 22
- Very strong or vigorous SEVERE
- 23
- Be priced at COST
- 24
- Restrict or confine, LIMIT
- 26
- Decree or designate beforehand DOOM
- 27
- A male human offspring SON
- 30
- Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column TORI
- 33
- The range of vision KEN
- 35
- Negation of a word or group of words NON