Crossword Answers for Friday, 23 January 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Friday, 23 January 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
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- Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman NEE
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- A unit of pressure PSI
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- To make melodious sounds SING
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- Get undressed PEEL
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- The basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos PESO
- 10
- Using speech rather than writing ORAL
- 11
- Water frozen in the solid state ICE
- 12
- Informal terms for a mother MOM
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- Not extreme TEMPERATE
- 17
- Annoy persistently BUG
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- Be almost asleep NOD
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- Pitching dangerously to one side TILT
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- Cut off the testicles GELD
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- Succeed at easily ACES
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- Except that ONLY
- 24
- A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies NYS
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- 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos ATS
Down
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- A daughter of your brother or sister NIECE
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- A coordinated outfit ENSEMBLES
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- The conscious mind EGO
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- A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals PERMANENT
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- Turbulent water with swells of considerable size SEA
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- Distressing ILL
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- Rain gently SPIT
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- Unsatisfactory POOR
- 12
- The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros MEG
- 14
- Attribute or give PUTS
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- Ring slowly TOLLS
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- Founder of Christian Science in 1866 EDDY
- 19
- A light brown the color of topaz TAN
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- Extremely cold ICY
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- A state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony GOA