Crossword Answers for Friday, 2 January 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Friday, 2 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Rip off; ask an unreasonable price ROB
- 4
- Excavate the earth beneath SAP
- 7
- The top of the head PATE
- 8
- Without water NEAT
- 10
- Feel physical pain ACHE
- 11
- An elaborate song for solo voice ARIA
- 12
- Soldier of the American Revolution LEE
- 13
- Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base ACORN
- 14
- Expose to a chance of loss or damage RISKS
- 16
- Dress in a gown GOWNS
- 18
- A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced PAR
- 21
- Morally bad or wrong EVIL
- 22
- Openly distrustful and unwilling to confide WARY
- 23
- Make easier EASE
- 24
- The highest point ACME
- 25
- Leave unchanged LET
- 26
- An affirmative YES
Down
- 1
- Any competition RACE
- 2
- In other respects or ways OTHERWISE
- 3
- Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species BEE
- 4
- A light informal meal SNACK
- 5
- The atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole AEROSPACE
- 6
- Two items of the same kind PAIR
- 7
- Become friends; act friendly towards PAL
- 9
- A light brown the color of topaz TAN
- 13
- A pompous fool ASS
- 15
- An arm off of a larger body of water INLET
- 16
- Turn to the right side GEE
- 17
- Rounded like an egg OVAL
- 19
- Weapons considered collectively ARMS
- 20
- The seed of the cereal grass RYE
- 22
- Space for movement WAY