Crossword Answers for Thursday, 22 January 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Thursday, 22 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Kill intentionally and with premeditation OFFS
- 5
- Move very slightly STIR
- 9
- Support by placing against something solid or rigid PROP
- 10
- Any of various types of cabbage CHOU
- 11
- Affording pleasure EASY
- 12
- Vulgar slang for anus ARSE
- 13
- Half the width of an em NUT
- 14
- Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong IRE
- 15
- Below 3 kilohertz ELVES
- 17
- A column of light RAY
- 18
- An informal term for a person's role HAT
- 21
- Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills IBIS
- 23
- An informal term for a racehorse PONY
- 24
- Obscene terms for female genitals CUNT
- 25
- A young and slender person SLIP
- 26
- Coat with beaten egg EGGS
- 27
- Silly or trivial IDLE
Down
- 1
- Where the air is unconfined OPEN
- 2
- A German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman FRAU
- 3
- Promote the growth of FOSTERING
- 4
- Catch sight of SPY
- 5
- Cause fear in SCARE
- 6
- A region marking a boundary THRESHOLD
- 7
- The closest of Jupiter's moons; has active volcanoes IOS
- 8
- A street or road in France RUE
- 14
- Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits IVY
- 16
- The temporal end; the concluding time LASTS
- 19
- A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically ANIL
- 20
- Printed characters TYPE
- 21
- Water frozen in the solid state ICE
- 22
- Annoy persistently BUG
- 23
- A unit of pressure PSI