Missing Letter Crossword January 9 2026 Answers (1/9/26)

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The Missing Letter Crossword January 9, 2026 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	NOUN: "a sharp projecting part"
4A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city in northeastern Texas north of Dallas population 259,841"
9A	Ending for fluor or chlor
10A	Meal in a bowl
11A	NOUN: "an expression of good wishes when someone leaves on a journey"
13A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city and port...in northwestern Pennsylvania"
14A	VERB: "to diminish the importance, value, or effectiveness of something"
18A	NOUN: "a Sudanese people living below Timbuktu in the bend of the Niger that are mostly Muslim"
20A	VERB: "to alter (something, such as a photographic negative) to produce a more desirable appearance"
22A	NOUN: "a joint...that is the articulation between the femur, tibia, and patella"
23A	Zinc or lead, e.g.
28A	1972 Bill Withers hit
29A	Motivating force
30A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city on the Ocmulgee River in central Georgia population 91,351"
31A	No longer working (abbr.)
1D	Agreed, as calculations
2D	Can't get enough of
3D	NOUN: "the biological as distinguished from the legal father"
4D	In favor of
5D	VERB: "to put or set down"
6D	"I ___ Man of Constant Sorrow"
7D	ABBREVIATION: "less than zero and opposite in sign to a positive"
8D	NOUN: "the first in a set or series"
12D	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Jules (Gabriel) 1828–1905 French writer"
15D	ABBREVIATION: "one engaged in undercover activities (such as espionage)"
16D	VERB: "to lose one's composure and fail to perform effectively in a critical situation"
17D	VERB: "[one who]...challenge[s] in a mocking or insulting manner"
19D	NOUN: "the Pleistocene glacial epoch"
21D	NOUN: "a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta"
23D	Beach ___ (sun worshiper)
24D	Words in many similes
25D	Part of a min.
26D	Not-real-inspirational music genre
27D	"A Few Good ___" (Tom Cruise movie)

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