The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 19 2025 Answers (8/19/25)

Our The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 19, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword August 19, 2025 Answers

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« August 18 2025 Answers

#	Clue
1A	It’s impossible to manufacture a bird
5A	Latest fake ‘art’ may be seen here
9A	Removing bottom from lacy gown isn’t half irresponsible
11A	Bit of lightheartedness in western martial arts (3-2)
12A	Squeezebox lost in a thousand pounds of Royal Albert Hall gear
15A	Unexplained phenomena among retrograde moons of Uranus
16A	Bench-sitters shift buttocks
18A	Former wife’s grip that’ll need painkiller
19A	Went to neaten garden
21A	One taking it to the edge fancifully guzzling rotten gin and a fifth of mulled wine?
24A	Invitation word Don expressed?
25A	Deep-sea swimming, both directions, for sunken gem
26A	Rover was one sort of dog
27A	Top Android, say, goes after toxic element in hazardous material
1D	Almost slice up rat
2D	Joplin composition: a Bollywood soundtrack tune
3D	Tesla rival is done screwing around
4D	Photo edges cropped from crude close-up pictures of ephemeral art
6D	Sophocles heroine in favour of sticking around?
7D	Genteel affairs in which pirates ate bats
8D	Get out of way of bear chased by first-string team?
10D	Wise monkeys count dogs in long baskets (5-8)
13D	Great Hooters contests, stateside
14D	Able to contain it with internal force? It’s conditional
17D	You can see Venus with this device externally held by eccentric Yankee
20D	Part of the head’s religious centre
22D	Lisa’s brother is a spoiled brat!
23D	Chains raised in child’s play

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