Crossword Answers for Sunday, 17 May 2026
All 48 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 17 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
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- Pass the tongue over LAP
- 4
- A quick throw SHY
- 7
- An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building ELL
- 10
- Water frozen in the solid state ICE
- 11
- Equality of score in a contest TIE
- 12
- Tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive LIE
- 13
- A person of considerable prominence PERSONALITY
- 16
- A male subordinate MEN
- 17
- Make older AGE
- 18
- Someone who skates SKATER
- 21
- Spanish surrealist painter MIRO
- 23
- Informal terms for the leg PIN
- 24
- Term of address for a man SIR
- 26
- The act of preventing BAR
- 27
- Again but in a new or different way ANEW
- 29
- An evil supernatural being DEVILS
- 31
- The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
- 32
- A colloid in a more solid form than a sol GEL
- 33
- Weakening in force or intensity ATTENUATION
- 38
- A quantity of no importance NIL
- 39
- To make a mistake or be incorrect ERR
- 40
- Being one more than one TWO
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- Extremely cold ICY
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- A final state END
- 43
- An affirmative YES
Down
- 1
- An impudent or insolent rejoinder LIP
- 2
- Succeed at easily ACE
- 3
- For a long time without essential change PERMANENTLY
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- United States filmmaker STONES
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- Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons HIN
- 6
- An affirmative YEA
- 7
- The quality or state of being eligible ELIGIBILITY
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- Avoiding embellishment or exaggeration LITERAL
- 9
- A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock LEY
- 14
- A unit of play in tennis or squash SET
- 15
- A rapid escape LAM
- 18
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPA
- 19
- Supplying motive force; - H.O.Taylor KINETIC
- 20
- Relieve from RID
- 22
- A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific ORS
- 25
- Deem to be REGARD
- 28
- Very small WEE
- 30
- Examine carefully VET
- 33
- Black tropical American cuckoo ANI
- 34
- Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman NEE
- 35
- A large pot for making coffee or tea URN
- 36
- Be in debt OWE
- 37
- A negative NOS