"Yay, padding!" Crossword Clue

We have the 14-letter answer for "Yay, padding!" crossword clue, last seen in the Apple+ Crossword January 4, 2026 puzzle. This answer will help you finish the puzzle you’re working on.

"Yay, padding!" Crossword Answer

→56.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definition

PADDING (noun)
1. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

More Apple+ Crossword (1/4/2026) Answers

Across

1. Powerful artifacts worn by Sauron's Nazgûl

6. Dial-up successor

9. Words on a docent's badge

14. Caramelized vegetable in mujaddara

15. Greek letter that looks like a P

16. Set of musical pipes in a church?

17. "Yay, letters!"

19. Garment often worn with churidars

20. Comedian Gasteyer

21. Someone who truly knows squat?

23. Cohesive group

24. Astrological signs represented by 53-Down

26. Pick up

27. Workplace org with a whistleblower protection program

29. Poke

31. Hindu honorific

32. Leaves that get wilted, bruised, and dried before being sold

35. "Yay, footwear!"

38. Sunlit courtyards

40. Kurosawa film based on "King Lear"

41. Birds heard in a nighttime forest soundscape

42. "Yay, party!"

46. Bird whose eggs look like enormous avocados

47. Deli fillet

48. Wood used for chardonnay barrels

49. Letter-shaped bit of plumbing equipment

52. ___ macha (crispy-chili condiment)

60. Husband of Gaia

61. Danseuse's garment

62. 😮

63. Chamber with whips

64. Pull an all-nighter

65. Word sometimes used by a newlywed

66. Journalistic approach

67. 🤭

68. Show filmed at 30 Rock that inspired 30 Rock

All Answers

Down

1. ___ jelly (food for queen bees)

2. Completely foolish

3. Mandarin hello

4. Viscous stuff

5. Lock lips, in the U.K.

6. Show that's part funny and part serious

7. Flannel top

8. Run ___ Run (1998 German thriller)

9. 'Cathy' exclamation

10. “Can it!”

11. Atlanta neighborhood where one is likely to find a copy of the Atlanta JoongAng

12. Baker's protection

13. Important length of time

18. Spoken equivalent of 62-Across

22. Canadian city in Kim's Convenience

25. Shower with gifts

28. Certain sib

30. Get loud

31. Make a trade

33. Fish in a dragon roll

34. Suffix for "half" or "hard"

35. Gathering that's often a lower-stakes precursor to a date

36. Dino that did battle with King Kong

37. Water-cooled pipe

38. ___ in the hole

39. Holland from England

43. Go by

44. Manage somehow

45. Presumptuous words?

50. Like the Yoruba language

51. GPS output

53. Pride members

54. Udon relative

55. Supernatural being in the Tanakh

56. Little brown bird

57. Really dig in?

58. Treat meat

59. Bryce Canyon's state

60. Nation home to more than 500 nations

All Answers