Apple+ Crossword January 4 2026 Answers (1/4/26)

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Apple+ Crossword January 4, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	Powerful artifacts worn by Sauron's Nazgûl
6A	Dial-up successor
9A	Words on a docent's badge
14A	Caramelized vegetable in mujaddara
15A	Greek letter that looks like a P
16A	Set of musical pipes in a church?
17A	"Yay, letters!"
19A	Garment often worn with churidars
20A	Comedian Gasteyer
21A	Someone who truly knows squat?
23A	Cohesive group
24A	Astrological signs represented by 53-Down
26A	Pick up
27A	Workplace org with a whistleblower protection program
29A	Poke
31A	Hindu honorific
32A	Leaves that get wilted, bruised, and dried before being sold
35A	"Yay, footwear!"
38A	Sunlit courtyards
40A	Kurosawa film based on King Lear
41A	Birds heard in a nighttime forest soundscape
42A	"Yay, party!"
46A	Bird whose eggs look like enormous avocados
47A	Deli fillet
48A	Wood used for chardonnay barrels
49A	Letter-shaped bit of plumbing equipment
52A	___ macha (crispy-chili condiment)
56A	"Yay, padding!"
60A	Husband of Gaia
61A	Danseuse's garment
62A	😮
63A	Chamber with whips
64A	Pull an all-nighter
65A	Word sometimes used by a newlywed
66A	Journalistic approach
67A	🤭
68A	Show filmed at 30 Rock that inspired 30 Rock
1D	___ jelly (food for queen bees)
2D	Completely foolish
3D	Mandarin "hello"
4D	Viscous stuff
5D	Lock lips, in the U.K.
6D	Show that's part funny and part serious
7D	Flannel top
8D	Run ___ Run (1998 German thriller)
9D	Cathy exclamation
10D	"Can it!"
11D	Atlanta neighborhood where one is likely to find a copy of the Atlanta JoongAng
12D	Baker's protection
13D	Important length of time
18D	Spoken equivalent of 62-Across
22D	Canadian city in Kim's Convenience
25D	Shower with gifts
28D	Certain sib
30D	Get loud
31D	Make a trade
33D	Fish in a dragon roll
34D	Suffix for "half" or "hard"
35D	Gathering that's often a lower-stakes precursor to a date
36D	Dino that did battle with King Kong
37D	Water-cooled pipe
38D	___ in the hole
39D	Holland from England
43D	Go by
44D	Manage, somehow
45D	Presumptuous words?
50D	Like the Yoruba language
51D	GPS output
53D	Pride members
54D	Udon relative
55D	Supernatural being in the Tanakh
56D	Little brown bird
57D	Really dig in?
58D	Treat meat
59D	Bryce Canyon's state
60D	Nation home to more than 500 nations

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