Crossword Answers for Wednesday, 20 May 2026
All 30 answers to the daily crossword for Wednesday, 20 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Break down ROT
- 4
- A rapid active commotion ADO
- 7
- An early form of modern jazz BEBOP
- 9
- A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced PAR
- 10
- Someone who owns or operates a business OPERATORS
- 12
- A material effigy that is worshipped GOD
- 13
- A trivial lie TALE
- 14
- Tear or be torn violently RIP
- 16
- Be almost asleep NOD
- 17
- Being of the age 13 through 19 TEEN
- 19
- A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan GEM
- 21
- Unsettled in mind or opinion TENTATIVE
- 23
- Something curved in shape ARC
- 24
- A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party NAZIS
- 25
- The act of using USE
- 26
- The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen PEL
Down
- 1
- A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories REPORTERS
- 2
- The trait of being willing to obey OBEDIENCE
- 3
- A high rocky hill TOR
- 4
- Defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning APOLOGIZE
- 5
- Presumptuously daring DAREDEVIL
- 6
- A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific ORS
- 7
- Cause to slow down or get stuck BOG
- 8
- Hit lightly PAT
- 11
- A light brown the color of topaz TAN
- 15
- A special loved one PET
- 18
- Your grandmother NAN
- 20
- A state in New England MES
- 21
- The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet TAU
- 22
- A gentle blow TAP