Crossword Answers for Tuesday, 20 January 2026
All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Tuesday, 20 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Money offered as a bribe SOAP
- 5
- Take in solid food EAT
- 8
- A source of help and advice and encouragement UNCLE
- 10
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
- 11
- Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored PETAL
- 12
- Become friends; act friendly towards PAL
- 13
- Heighten or intensify INSPIRE
- 15
- The day before EVE
- 16
- Break down ROT
- 17
- Write music WRITTEN
- 19
- A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters ARS
- 20
- The act of using USAGE
- 23
- Distribute loosely DOT
- 24
- Set in motion, cause to start BEGIN
- 25
- A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium ERS
- 26
- Manage or run TEND
Down
- 1
- A small amount of liquid food SUP
- 2
- A single person or thing ONE
- 3
- A militant reformer ACTIVISTS
- 4
- A person who follows or serves another PLANET
- 5
- The systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets ESPIONAGE
- 6
- One from the other APART
- 7
- A trivial lie TALE
- 9
- Angular distance above the horizon ELS
- 14
- Set in advance PRESET
- 15
- Inadvertent incorrectness ERROR
- 17
- English tennis player who won many women's singles titles WADE
- 18
- A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids TUB
- 21
- Trap with a snare GIN
- 22
- A final state END