Crossword Answers for Thursday, 16 April 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Thursday, 16 April 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Clean in preparation for inspection GIS
- 4
- Of southern Europe; similar to but smaller than the adder ASP
- 7
- A lyric poem with complex stanza forms ODE
- 8
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm ULTRA
- 10
- Learn or discover with certainty ASCERTAIN
- 12
- Have a particular form RAN
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- A young child TOT
- 14
- At any time EVER
- 16
- A beautiful and graceful girl PERI
- 17
- Negation of a word or group of words NOT
- 18
- Touch clumsily PAW
- 19
- Someone who has diabetes DIABETICS
- 23
- Someone who guards prisoners SCREW
- 24
- Scheduled to arrive DUE
- 25
- Good discernment EYE
- 26
- The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
Down
- 1
- A state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony GOA
- 2
- A state in the Rocky Mountains IDS
- 3
- A desk used for writing SECRETARY
- 4
- Angular distance above the horizon ALT
- 5
- Occurring or extending throughout a state STATEWIDE
- 6
- Earlier in time PRIOR
- 8
- A large pot for making coffee or tea URN
- 9
- Not in favor of ANTI
- 11
- Good hearing EAR
- 14
- A final state ENDS
- 15
- Expressing in coherent verbal form VOICE
- 16
- Hit lightly PAT
- 18
- Long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation PEW
- 20
- Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species BEE
- 21
- A step on some scale CUT
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- Turbulent water with swells of considerable size SEA