Crossword Master August 15, 2026 Answers
14 across and 13 down, every answer listed.
Across — 14 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | [picture: rainbow] | Show answer | 7 | |
| 8 | Possesses | Show answer | 4 | |
| 9 | Very High | Show answer | 2 | |
| 11 | yammer | Show answer | 3 | |
| 12 | Sunbeam | Show answer | 3 | |
| 14 | Arrival | Show answer | 2 | |
| 15 | fa__y | Show answer | 3 | |
| 18 | [picture: lemon] | Show answer | 5 | |
| 20 | Foot joint | Show answer | 5 | |
| 22 | [picture: sand] | Show answer | 4 | |
| 23 | hav__ | Show answer | 2 | |
| 25 | Handled | Show answer | 7 | |
| 26 | Service Mark | Show answer | 2 | |
| 27 | [picture: yak] | Show answer | 4 |
Down — 13 Clues
| # | Clue | Answer | Letters | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monarchists | Show answer | 9 | |
| 2 | Conscious | Show answer | 5 | |
| 3 | If Not Possible | Show answer | 3 | |
| 4 | New Style | Show answer | 2 | |
| 5 | Egg shape | Show answer | 4 | |
| 6 | Question word | Show answer | 3 | |
| 10 | ice arena | Show answer | 4 | |
| 13 | Week starter | Show answer | 6 | |
| 16 | Horse hair | Show answer | 4 | |
| 17 | gives temporarily | Show answer | 5 | |
| 19 | like onion | Show answer | 4 | |
| 21 | upper limb | Show answer | 3 | |
| 24 | teaching assistant | Show answer | 2 |
August 15, 2026 — How the Grid Breaks Down
This is the Crossword Master daily puzzle for August 15, 2026, a Saturday. It is played on a 10x8 grid and holds 27 answers — 14 across and 13 down. Answers run from 2 to 9 letters, the longest being ROYALISTS.
Crossword Master keeps its clues short and definitional, which makes the grid quick once you find a foothold, but it also leans on very short fills — two- and three-letter entries that are hard to guess in isolation. The reliable approach is to solve the long across answers first and let their crossing letters fix the short down entries, rather than the other way round. That is why the two directions are listed separately here.
Dated puzzles are archived separately from the game's repeating month-day dailies. The dated archive holds 251 puzzles, and the main daily hub covers the calendar set. For the numbered campaign puzzles, the Crossword Master hub indexes them all.
August 15, 2026 — Questions
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3 Tips for the August 15, 2026 Puzzle
Fill the long answers first
This board carries 27 clues. The longest answers cross the most squares, so each one you place hands you confirmed letters in several shorter entries — far quicker than working the clue list top to bottom.
Use the crossings when a clue will not come
Crossword Master reuses clue wording with different answers, so recall alone is unreliable. Solve the entries around a stubborn clue first; two or three crossing letters usually leave only one word that fits the slot.
The rest of the archive
The previous date is here and the next one follows. The dated index lists every board in this run, and the numbered puzzle archive covers the fixed boards.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify this dated board
The 27 clues on this page are stored exactly as the game presented them on August 15, 2026, with each answer length-checked against its slot. Dated boards are never rewritten after publication.
Reviewed by Nadia Okonkwo, Crossword and Clue Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
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How to Solve a Crossword Master Puzzle
The order that clears a crossword fastest, whatever the theme.
Start with the fills you are certain of
Short answers with common letter patterns anchor the grid. Every letter one of them places is a free constraint on the crossing clues, which is why the grid opens up far faster from the easy corners than from the clue you are stuck on.
Use the crossings, not the clue
When a clue will not give, stop reading it and look at what crosses it. Two or three confirmed letters usually reduce the answer to one candidate, and that is quicker than re-reading a clue you have already failed to solve.
Let the theme carry the long answers
The long entries usually share a theme, so once one of them falls the others follow the same pattern. Solve a long answer and re-read the other long clues immediately — they are rarely independent.