Crossword for Friday 21 August 2026

Across

1. 1. Breakfast protein that is either vegetarian or non-vegetarian, depending on how you look at it
2. 4. A pair
3. 7. Buddy - used in many friendship songs in Bollywood.
4. 9. Possessed, in the past
5. 10. Fallback for a computer program when all "if" conditions fail
6. 11. Dead ___
7. 12. ____ fields (where rice grows)
8. 15. A hint for an actor to remind them of their next line
9. 16. Captain Cool behind the stumps
10. 18. In the past
11. 20. Steamed rice cake of southern breakfasts
12. 23. An arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
13. 24. Come together
14. 25. The against column when evaluating decision options
15. 26. What brands air for eyeballs

Down

1. 1. The organ of sight
2. 2. Wonder Woman in the DCEU
3. 3. Sharp intake of breath, either when exhausted or shocked
4. 4. Pronoun used to refer to someone whose gender is unknown
5. 5. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness
6. 6. Not divisible by two
7. 8. Get to your destination
8. 13. Two items of the same kind
9. 14. A type of heavy trouser originally worn by miners
10. 16. ___ and out.
11. 17. The Indian cellular network that promised to change your world—then changed its own name.
12. 18. __ de Triomphe (Paris)
13. 19. Any thick, viscous matter
14. 21. The current standard TV screen technology
15. 22. __ ok!