Crossword Answers for Friday, 30 January 2026

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

Across

1
A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters ARES
5
The conscious mind EGO
8
Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed ROMA
9
A small amount of liquid food SUP
10
A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter TESLA
12
Small insectivorous birds TIT
13
Block passage through IMPEDE
15
Open up and explore a new area PIONEERED
18
Arrival that has been awaited ADVENT
19
Deem to be SEE
20
A flat circular plate DISCS
24
A man who serves as a sailor TAR
25
Obscene terms for penis TOOL
26
Angular distance above the horizon ALT
27
Founder of Christian Science in 1866 EDDY

Down

1
The creation of beautiful or significant things ART
2
Eggs of female fish ROE
3
A quad with a square body EMS
4
Containing salt SALINE
5
Formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water ESTER
6
Take somebody somewhere GUIDE
7
Select as an alternative over another OPTED
11
To make better AMEND
14
Very small PETITE
15
Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg PASTA
16
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal IDEAL
17
Open and observable; not secret or hidden OVERT
21
Someone who engages in anal copulation SOD
22
Fool or hoax COD
23
Marked by skill in deception SLY