Crossword Answers for Saturday, 3 January 2026

All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Saturday, 3 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.

Across

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A guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target SAM
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A unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes MIB
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A person who follows or serves another SATELLITE
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Open up and explore a new area PIONEERED
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Any high mountain ALP
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A tiny piece of anything ATOM
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A state in the Rocky Mountains IDS
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Give certain properties to something MADE
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Turbulent water with swells of considerable size SEA
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A star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process SUPERNOVA
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A formal expression PLEASURES
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An affirmative YES
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Being one more than nine TEN

Down

1
Traverse or travel on SAIL
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On, to, or at the top ATOP
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A male subordinate MEN
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Spanish surrealist painter MIRO
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An individual instance of a type of symbol ITEM
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A stratum of rock BED
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A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
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The body of people who lead a group LEADERS
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Leave unchanged LETS
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A personal view IDEA
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A slipper that has no fitting around the heel MULE
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Person who resembles a nonhuman primate APES
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An open skin infection SORE
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Divisible by two EVEN
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An associate degree in arts AAS
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Catch sight of SPY
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Half the width of an em NUT