Welcome to The Hare’s first crossword of 2026! Access our playable version HERE, or find the grid, clues, and answer key below.

ACROSS

1 Lady’s title
5 Ingests information from a textbook, say
10 Know-how, informally
12 Spark
*14 Legatos, staccatos, and accents, to a musician
*16 “You did it!”
19 Second-smallest South Hill residence hall
21 Locales
22 Blanket charge?
25 One goes down Balt. Ave.
26 Firecracker cord
27 Item in an archive
30 What I did all of winter break
32 Saturn feature
33 Actress Lou Wood of “Sex Education”
35 What our first week of school was riddled with–and a phonetic hint to the starred clues
41 Citi Field player, for short
42 Surrealist Salvador
44 Hollander of “Heated Rivalry”
47 Where an astronaut can drink on the job?
50 Appear ominously
51 One ___ time
52 Texting format, for short
53 Ancient Mesoamerican
55 Thespians
*58 Walks at night?
*60 Controlling exploitations
64 More emo, perhaps
65 Minecraft item that saves one’s life
66 Feel
67 Jim Henson, Jeff Kinney, or maybe even you!

DOWN

1 Washington airport code
2 Sheet music abbr.
3 Ran into
4 Prepare for publication (like for the Hare!)
5 Puerto ___
6 Four-award artist, for short
7 ___ Arbor, MI
8 Archaeological sites
9 Conflict
11 Your neck needs it in this weather!
13 Devour
15 Beauty store
17 Exam
18 Take advantage of
20 “Take a breath…”
22 Distant
23 Guitarist Clapton, or an infamous name at the Hare
24 Sicilian volcano
28 Video game news site, for short
29 New York Times game where you “Match motifs”
30 Ready-go link
31 Floral necklace
34 Internet personality appearing at Stamp’s All-Niter
36 Anderson Cooper’s channel
37 Hurricane center
38 Poetic tribute
39 Steals
40 Denny’s Choconana Pancake ___
43 Tax org.
44 Han of “Star Wars”
45 French man?
46 Things made for the better
48 Molecule component
49 Diamond weight
50 ___ Angeles
54 Hamster’s home
55 Fivers
56 Medical remedy
57 Boogers (eww!)
59 Max’s opposite
61 Meteor tail?
62 ___ capita
63 Strike caller

SPOILERS: Answer Key+

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