Free Printable Crossword Puzzle #1

This is the Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Jan 5, 2026

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Across

1. Reads quickly
6. Rigorous exams
11. Pub fixture
14. Comics kid
15. Drop in on
16. Carnival city
17. Editor's helper
19. Sturdy tree
20. Gabor sister
21. Jukebox selection
22. "No bid"
24. "The Bathers" painter
26. Reward for a fine job
28. Spago chef
33. Gotten up
36. Wear the crown
37. Painter's calculation
38. Bug in a farm
39. Kitchen protectors
40. Right-angle bend
41. Sch. groups
43. "Height" word form
44. "Cabaret" director
46. Salsa scooper
49. Golf pro's woe
50. Head Hun
54. Legree's creator
56. Keep __ (persist)
58. Papa
59. Actress Zadora
60. Performance history
64. Blow it
65. Emcee's task
66. Burn a bit
67. Tie the knot
68. "Tall" accounts
69. Spud

Down

1. Newsman Morley
2. Dastardly one
3. Of ancient Peru
4. Cambridge sch.
5. Grapefruit hunk
6. Appliance for 28 Across
7. Paella ingredient
8. Pop the question
9. Tell a whopper
10. Yo-yo need
11. Pirate caches
12. Has a bug
13. Toy dogs, for short
18. Take the mound

23. Cocoon occupant
25. Be in hock
26. Latvia's sea
27. White Monopoly bills
29. Like lace
30. __-percha
31. Cartoon frames
32. Crinkly green
33. Wholly absorbed
34. Absorbed by
35. Seafarer's right
39. SWM part
42. Pack away
44. In best shape

45. Make a pick
47. Joke hearer's comment
48. Mammal feature
51. "__ think so!"
52. Shirt-tag word
53. Abacus user
54. Eject forcibly
55. Start to sag
56. Plot measure
57. Fight-stopping decisions
61. Genetic letters
62. NL city
63. Secretive org.

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