Crossword Answers for Saturday, 16 May 2026
All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Saturday, 16 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- A Malayan dagger with a wavy blade KRIS
- 5
- Form or compose WAS
- 8
- From this time HENCE
- 10
- A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs REP
- 11
- A person of subnormal intelligence IDIOT
- 12
- The conscious mind EGO
- 13
- A journey usually by ship TRANSIT
- 15
- Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top PIE
- 16
- 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos ATS
- 17
- Extremely distressing FEARFUL
- 19
- A broad flat muscle on either side of the back LAT
- 20
- Out of the way ASIDE
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- Succeed at easily ACE
- 24
- The pitch range of the highest male voice TENOR
- 25
- Take in marriage WED
- 26
- Make older AGES
Down
- 1
- The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet KHI
- 2
- The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue RED
- 3
- Bring into being INITIATED
- 4
- A logger who marks trees to be felled SCORER
- 5
- To move in a twisting or contorted motion, WRESTLING
- 6
- Kindly endorsement and guidance AEGIS
- 7
- A blemish made by dirt SPOT
- 9
- The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet ETA
- 14
- The state that precedes vomiting NAUSEA
- 15
- A treaty to cease hostilities PEACE
- 17
- An imperfection in an object or machine FLAW
- 18
- Excess bodily weight FAT
- 21
- Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck' DOE
- 22
- A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium ERS