Crossword Answers for Tuesday, 19 May 2026
All 32 answers to the daily crossword for Tuesday, 19 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- A blow from a flat object SLAP
- 5
- A special loved one PET
- 8
- A very light brown BEIGE
- 9
- Black tropical American cuckoo ANI
- 10
- High in price or charging high prices EXPENSIVE
- 12
- A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies NYS
- 13
- Open to or abounding in fresh air AIRY
- 14
- Angular distance above the horizon ELS
- 15
- A thin layer covering something COAT
- 17
- A wing of an insect ALA
- 20
- Continue after an interruption CONTINUES
- 22
- Completely given to or absorbed by ALL
- 23
- The abode of mortals EARTH
- 24
- Some point or period in time DAY
- 25
- A fashionable hotel usually in a resort area SPAS
Down
- 1
- Exciting sexual desire SEXY
- 2
- An impudent or insolent rejoinder LIPS
- 3
- Make older AGE
- 4
- The act of punishing PENALTIES
- 5
- Two items of the same kind PAIR
- 6
- Be envious of; set one's heart on ENVY
- 7
- Equality of score in a contest TIE
- 8
- A mountain or tall hill BEN
- 11
- A female person who has the same parents as another person SIS
- 14
- Take in solid food EAT
- 15
- Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts COLA
- 16
- Except that ONLY
- 17
- An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint AURA
- 18
- Leave unchanged LETS
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- The residue that remains when something is burned ASH
- 20
- Someone who is morally reprehensible CAD
- 21
- Take a siesta NAP