Crossword Answers for Thursday, 2 April 2026
All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Thursday, 2 April 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Slanderous remarks or charges MUD
- 4
- Being one more than one TWO
- 7
- New Zealand eel TUNA
- 8
- Lacking sufficient water or rainfall ARID
- 9
- Do away with ELIMINATE
- 11
- A unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts DEN
- 12
- Estrangement from god SINS
- 13
- Give up for a price or reward SELLS
- 15
- Free from discordant qualities PURE
- 16
- A rapid escape LAM
- 19
- The atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole AEROSPACE
- 21
- Turn to the right side GEES
- 22
- An individual instance of a type of symbol ITEM
- 23
- Very familiar OLD
- 24
- The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet PES
Down
- 1
- A slipper that has no fitting around the heel MULE
- 2
- Not covered by insurance UNINSURED
- 3
- A metric unit of length equal to ten meters DAM
- 4
- Be equivalent in effect TRANSLATE
- 5
- Mental ability WITS
- 6
- A lyric poem with complex stanza forms ODE
- 7
- A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes TED
- 8
- A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically ANIL
- 10
- A small island ISLES
- 14
- A desire for sexual intimacy EROS
- 15
- Get undressed PEEL
- 17
- Succeed at easily ACES
- 18
- The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet MEM
- 19
- In the past AGO
- 20
- Defeat thoroughly PIP