Apple+ Crossword January 5 2026 Answers (1/5/26)

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Apple+ Crossword January 5, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	___ Dhabi
4A	Downfall
10A	Starting on
14A	Click ___ (features of several African languages)
16A	Garment seen at a Hindu wedding
17A	Most populous city in California
18A	Tight-___ (closely integrated)
19A	Comedian Jeong
20A	Had an unsettled debt
22A	___ down (write quickly)
23A	Software used by engineers and architects, for short
24A	Climbing plant
25A	Fútbol cheer
26A	Timbuktu's country
27A	Completely surrounds
29A	"Makes sense"
30A	Take it easy
31A	Shelf or sill, for example
33A	California's capital, for short
34A	Toronto's province (Abbr.)
36A	Condiment like pico de gallo
40A	Buddy
43A	___ out (take it easy)
45A	Labor Day's month (Abbr.)
46A	Metal used to make beverage cans
49A	Jasmine or oolong
50A	Cold Tex-Mex dish served on a fried tortilla shell
52A	Comedy show with cold opens
53A	Fourth most populous city in California
57A	___ Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
58A	People learning the ropes for a job
59A	"Is that a ___ or a no?"
60A	Air Force Ones and Chuck Taylors
1D	Knee part commonly repaired surgically
2D	Place for displaying novels
3D	Opened, like an envelope or pickle jar
4D	___ Quixote
5D	Most-spoken language in North America (Abbr.)
6D	Mother, in Portuguese
7D	Smitten
8D	Boiling with anger
9D	Fragrance or flavor extracts
10D	Pose a question
11D	Third most populous city in California
12D	Birds associated with Baltimore
13D	Survival of the ___
15D	Second most populous city in California
21D	River landforms named after a Greek letter
26D	"Cool" amount of cash
28D	Killer whales
32D	Have a mental picture of in advance
35D	People paying rent
37D	"Hmm ..."
38D	Hidden Figures star Octavia
39D	Completely mystified
40D	Apt anagram of "tap" (and not particularly apt anagram of "apt")
41D	In the style of
42D	Star Trek captain Jean-___ Picard
44D	___ of Mexico (body of water along the U.S. southern coast)
47D	Like some slippery tree trunks
48D	Small stores
51D	"Rats!"
54D	Scottish "no"
55D	Espionage org
56D	Liquid in a stamp pad

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