Today’s Guardian Quick Crossword August 10, 2024 Answers Updated

ACROSS

• Essential part (4) Crossword Clue - The answer is “CRUX”
• Scheme to unfairly incriminate someone (6-2) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “STITCHUP”
• One has no prospect of success (2-5) Crossword Clue - The answer is “NOHOPER”
• Sharp bend (5) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “ELBOW”
• Chilling (5) Crossword Clue - The answer is “EERIE”
• Quirk (6) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “ODDITY”
• Like an illness caused by e.g. stress (13) Crossword Clue - The answer is “PSYCHOSOMATIC”
• Lessens (6) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “ABATES”
• Sound (5) Crossword Clue - The answer is “NOISE”
• Narcotic to which Marx likened religion (5) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “OPIUM”
• Competitor (7) Crossword Clue - The answer is “ENTRANT”
• Plan (8) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “SCHEDULE”
• Metallic element used to make brass (4) Crossword Clue - The answer is “ZINC”

DOWN

• Disdain (8) Crossword Clue - The answer is “CONTEMPT”
• Escort (5) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “USHER”
• Kind of cat or butterfly (13) Crossword Clue - The answer is “TORTOISESHELL”
• Material favoured by academics and farmers (5) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “TWEED”
• Environment (7) Crossword Clue - The answer is “HABITAT”
• Chess piece which can be promoted (4) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “PAWN”
• Communicative faculty (6) Crossword Clue - The answer is “SPEECH”
• Comprising various elements of different kinds (8) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “ECLECTIC”
• Rowdy and violent (7) Crossword Clue - The answer is “YOBBISH”
• Diminutive (6) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “MINUTE”
• Retiring (5) Crossword Clue - The answer is “TIMID”
• Inhabitant of Fallujah or Kirkuk (5) Crossword Clue Guardian Quick - The answer is “IRAQI”
• Scottish region – character in Friends (4) Crossword Clue - The answer is “ROSS”