Crossword Answers for Saturday, 16 May 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Saturday, 16 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Ride in a taxicab CAB
- 4
- Stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree TREE
- 8
- Make older AGE
- 9
- Utter a sudden loud cry YELL
- 10
- Marked by rude or peremptory shortness CURT
- 11
- Fill with ink INKS
- 12
- The act of using USE
- 13
- A final state END
- 14
- A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity TEENAGERS
- 18
- Come together MET
- 19
- Eggs of female fish ROE
- 20
- Person who resembles a nonhuman primate APES
- 22
- Rise or move forward TIDE
- 23
- Bowl for baptismal water FONT
- 24
- The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
- 25
- Small insectivorous birds TITS
- 26
- The conscious mind EGO
Down
- 1
- A justification for something existing or happening CAUSE
- 2
- The verbal act of agreeing AGREEMENT
- 3
- The act of gambling BET
- 4
- Limit or restrict to TYING
- 5
- Cause to become RENDERING
- 6
- Common deer of temperate Europe and Asia ELK
- 7
- Angular distance above the horizon ELS
- 10
- A step on some scale CUT
- 13
- Take in solid food EAT
- 15
- A kind of gun emplacement NESTS
- 16
- An exhibition of cowboy skills RODEO
- 17
- Deem to be SEE
- 20
- Situated at or toward the stern or tail AFT
- 21
- Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment POI
- 22
- The starting place for each hole on a golf course TEE