Crossword Answers for Sunday, 24 May 2026
All 46 answers to the daily crossword for Sunday, 24 May 2026. Still want to finish it yourself? Play the puzzle instead.
Across
- 1
- Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong IRE
- 4
- Impress greatly WOW
- 7
- Being one more than one TWO
- 10
- The shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort SEASIDE
- 12
- Increase the number of rotations per minute REV
- 13
- Able to see SIGHTED
- 14
- A wing of an insect ALA
- 15
- Morally reprehensible UGLY
- 16
- Examine thoroughly GRILL
- 18
- The compass point midway between northeast and east ENE
- 19
- Make a veinlike pattern VEINS
- 20
- Tender and brittle CRISP
- 22
- A state of extreme confusion and disorder CHAOS
- 24
- Take by theft COP
- 27
- Do one's shopping SHOPS
- 28
- An informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk PAPA
- 29
- A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km MIL
- 30
- Clothing in general APPAREL
- 33
- Very familiar OLD
- 34
- A worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery ROUTERS
- 35
- Clean in preparation for inspection GIS
- 36
- The dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology YIN
- 37
- Express in words SAY
Down
- 1
- The immediate descendants of a person ISSUE
- 2
- Have sovereign power REIGN
- 3
- Shoot two strokes under par EAGLE
- 4
- Mental ability WIT
- 5
- A lyric poem with complex stanza forms ODE
- 6
- Put, fix, force, or implant WEDGES
- 7
- A series of consequences wrought by an event TRAIN
- 8
- An abundant source WELLS
- 9
- Rounded like an egg OVAL
- 11
- A quick throw SHY
- 17
- Tear or be torn violently RIP
- 19
- The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one VIS
- 20
- A tight-fitting headdress CAP
- 21
- A string of beads used in counting prayers ROSARY
- 22
- Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency CHILI
- 23
- A stronghold HOLDS
- 24
- Provide care for CARES
- 25
- A commercial browser OPERA
- 26
- Loss of the ability to move a body part PALSY
- 27
- Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog SMOG
- 28
- Hit lightly PAT
- 31
- Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment POI
- 32
- Make a play on words PUN