Missing Letter Crossword January 2 2026 Answers (1/2/26)

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The Missing Letter Crossword January 2, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	ABBREVIATION: "[Degree useful for a CEO]"
4A	INTERJECTION: "used especially in radio and signaling to indicate that a message has been received and understood"
9A	Rowboat rod
10A	NOUN: "a dark granular mineral that consists of corundum with iron oxide impurities (such as magnetite) and is used as an abrasive"
11A	PHRASE: "on a [bigger] scale or in a more prominent manner"
13A	VERB: "to bake (eggs removed from the shell) until set"
14A	ADJECTIVE: "of or relating to vision or the eye"
16A	NOUN: "laugh"
19A	NOUN: "an eccentric person"
20A	"Peter Pan" character
21A	ABBREVIATION: "the 12th month of the Gregorian calendar"
22A	"___ little longer!" (party host's exhortation)
23A	Aviator Dick ___
25A	NOUN: "a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily personified in Greek mythology as a female monster"
29A	ADJECTIVE: "given to expressing oneself freely or insistently"
30A	Away from WSW
31A	Good surname for a boater?
32A	Man's name that's Latin for "king"
1D	Use blades on blades
2D	NOUN: "a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening)"
3D	NOUN: "a governing body or upper class usually made up of a hereditary nobility"
4D	Archaeologist's discovery
5D	"The Wire" protagonist
6D	VERB: "to divide or arrange (a territorial unit) into election districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage"
7D	Rowing machine unit
8D	Deli bread
12D	ADJECTIVE: "having little extent from one surface to its opposite"
14D	No spring chicken
15D	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Edgar Allan 1809–1849 American poet and short-story writer"
17D	Alternative to a three-point turn
18D	NOUN: "a large olive green omnivorous parrot (Nestor notabilis) of New Zealand that is typically found in Alpine regions"
20D	Educated guess
22D	Washington Post section
24D	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "river 1509 miles (2428 kilometers) long in Russia and Kazakhstan that...flows south into the Caspian Sea"
25D	All-consonant chain
26D	Org. that may complain about your curtains
27D	Suffix with serpent
28D	Reason for an R-rating

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