Crossword Answers for Monday, 12 January 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Monday, 12 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- A master's degree in education MED
- 4
- The highest point ACME
- 8
- Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan POLO
- 9
- A formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year PROM
- 10
- The act of using USES
- 11
- A resource AIDS
- 12
- A police officer who investigates crimes TEC
- 13
- The creation of beautiful or significant things ART
- 14
- Bring into being STARTED
- 17
- The branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother OBS
- 18
- Uncastrated adult male sheep RAM
- 20
- A rounded thickly curled hairdo AFRO
- 22
- Get credit or money by using a bad check KITE
- 23
- Weight to be borne or conveyed LOAD
- 24
- Dig with a hoe HOES
- 25
- Having a strong healthy body ABLE
- 26
- A state in midwestern United States INS
Down
- 1
- United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes MOSES
- 2
- Relating to or composed of electors ELECTORAL
- 3
- An uproarious party DOS
- 4
- One from the other APART
- 5
- The ideal in terms of which something can be judged CRITERION
- 6
- Relating to a recently developed fashion or style MOD
- 7
- A quad with a square body EMS
- 8
- Attribute or give PUT
- 13
- A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters ARS
- 15
- Housing that someone is living in ABODE
- 16
- A participant in a date DATES
- 19
- A state in New England MES
- 20
- A wing of an insect ALA
- 21
- Deceive somebody FOB
- 22
- The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet KHI