Crossword Answers for Monday, 5 January 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Monday, 5 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Drag behind TOW
- 4
- A strong restless desire ITCH
- 8
- A collection of anecdotes about a person or place ANA
- 9
- A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada CREE
- 10
- Trying something to find out about it TEST
- 12
- Utter a sudden loud cry YELL
- 13
- Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water ESTER
- 15
- Completely given to or absorbed by ALL
- 16
- Cut or eliminate EDITS
- 18
- Become friends; act friendly towards PAL
- 20
- United States feminist PAULS
- 23
- Rounded like an egg OVAL
- 25
- Using speech rather than writing ORAL
- 26
- A fortified position LINE
- 27
- Large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller EMU
- 28
- Founder of Christian Science in 1866 EDDY
- 29
- A unit of play in tennis or squash SET
Down
- 1
- United States poet and critic TATE
- 2
- A single person or thing ONES
- 3
- An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation WASTELAND
- 4
- Extremely cold ICY
- 5
- Be fond of; be attached to TREASURES
- 6
- Any small compartment CELL
- 7
- Violent and excited activity HELL
- 11
- A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes TED
- 14
- Tear or be torn violently RIP
- 17
- The ultimate principle of the universe TAO
- 18
- A square rod of land POLE
- 19
- Ardently or excessively desirous AVID
- 21
- Disabled in the feet or legs LAME
- 22
- A woman adulterer SLUT
- 24
- A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock LEY