Vulture Crossword January 9 2026 Answers (1/9/26)

Our Vulture Crossword January 9, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

Vulture Crossword January 9, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Vulture Crossword on 1/9/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	January horror film featuring a rabid chimpanzee
8A	Cleared one’s schedule
10A	Routes that don't take as long
12A	Fleur-de-___ (symbol of New Orleans)
13A	Straw
15A	Protestant work ___
18A	Weapon that does 1d6 bludgeoning damage, in “D&D”
19A	Person who might be able to secretly exchange places with their sibling in order to meet a parent they had never known
20A	Azealia whose Wikipedia page has 17 subsections under “Disputes and controversies”
21A	Portable bed
22A	Percy’s breed, in “Pocahontas”
23A	“Red Wine ___” (Chappell Roan song)
28A	Award most recently given to the film “It Was Just an Accident”
29A	Most clean
1D	Affliction preceding your period, for short
2D	Syllable chanted by vintage cheerleaders
3D	Phrase used in wedding vows
4D	BBC fantasy show starring Colin Morgan as the titular wizard
5D	“Flowers in the ___” (classic V. C. Andrews novel)
6D	Nervous gestures
7D	Flightless Australian bird
9D	Actor Slater who somehow continues to date Ariana Grande even though “Wicked” is now totally over
11D	Bag carried by Santa Claus … and Krampus
14D	“That’s right”
15D	Letters that indicate a list has too many items to name
16D	Terrible ___ (phase of development marked by tantrums)
17D	Contact
18D	Bit of decoration on a fridge
20D	Country also known as Myanmar
22D	Soccer star whose biopic was subtitled “Birth of a Legend”
24D	Cookware used to make grilled cheese
25D	Poem written to celebrate someone or something
26D	Marilyn ___ Savant (columnist who, in the “30 Rock” universe, received professional boudoir photographs of Toofer Spurlock)
27D	“Things I saw in [month] that made me want to make ___” (caption on many of Rama Duwaji’s Instagram posts)

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