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Thursday 20 August 2026
Choose a game, then reveal only what you came for. No articles, no detours, no spoilers by accident.
The five-letter answer
MURKY
Verified by 7 matching sources · 100% agreement
All four groups
SIMILARLY SHAPED TYPOGRAPHICAL MARKS
APOSTROPHE · CEDILLA · COMMA · OKINA
KINDS OF NUMBERS
ATOMIC · SERIAL · SOCIALSECURITY · TELEPHONE
KINDS OF PIZZA
DIAVOLA · HAWAIIAN · MEATLOVERS · WHITE
STARTING WITH CHINESE ZODIAC ANIMALS
DRAGONFLY · OXFORD · PIGMENT · RATCHET
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Theme, spangram & words
Spangram
YOURETHE
BEES · BEST · CATS · GOLD · KNEES · PAJAMAS · STANDARD · VERY
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Across & down
1A LAB
4A LINUS
6A AGGRO
7A SHELL
8A TRY
1D LIGHT
2D ANGER
3D BURLY
4D LAS
5D SOL
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Behind the answers
We collect published puzzle answers, compare them in a consistent format and reveal how much confidence we have in the result.
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Reviewed sources are checked regularly throughout the Melbourne day. Broken, incomplete or incorrectly dated results are excluded.
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Answers are normalised and grouped by exact puzzle content. Most games require six matches; a complete Mini requires four.
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Fully verified answers enter the archive. Today’s leading result may appear earlier as provisional and is always marked with an asterisk.