Daily Themed Crossword January 19 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Easy as ___ (English alphabet starters)
  ABC
• The M in SMS for short
  MSG
• ___ Wednesday (first day of Lent)
  ASH
• Is it ___ late to apologize?
  TOO
• Travel by boat
  SAIL
• Pigeon’s call
  COO
• *Flying pest you may find at home that uses its proboscis to suck blood
  MOSQUITO
• Yoo-___ popular chocolate drink
  HOO
• German-born teen diarist ___ Frank
  ANNE
• Didn’t stay?
  WENT
• How I ___ Your Father (spin-off sitcom)
  MET
• That’s so frustrating!
  GAH
• Programming language that shares a name with an Indonesian island
  JAVA
• Many moons ___…
  AGO
• Sleep party crasher?
  ALARM
• *Vacuum ___ high-tech dirt buster that sucks dust
  CLEANER
• Of Mice and ___ John Steinbeck novel
  MEN
• Large water body in Finding Dory
  OCEAN
• Leftover morsel
  ORT
• Bank’s advance offering
  LOAN
• ___ a bullet (avoid an unwelcome situation)
  DODGE
• Teach in a way
  TAME
• *Sipping aid that you can use to suck in your favorite cocktail
  STRAW
• Oh!___! (Got it!): 2 wds.
  ISEE
• Seek damages in court
  SUE
• *Creepy parasitic scalp crawlers that suck your blood
  LICE
• Assorted items for short
  MISC
• Dublin’s country for short
  IRE
• Sister in a religious order
  NUN
• Satisfying massage reaction?
  AHH
• Popeye’s girl Olive
  OYL
• Barrel tapped at a frat party
  KEG

DOWN

• Cash-on-demand machine: Abbr.
  ATM
• Greeting from a ghost
  BOO
• Sin ___ and tan (trigonometry terms)
  COS
• Central street
  MAIN
• Suffix with web to mean a web browser’s destination
  SITE
• Day-___ (fluorescent paint manufacturer)
  GLO
• Tooth or tummy trouble
  ACHE
• Coming ___ (store sign about new merch)
  SOON
• ___ and holler (shout angrily)
  HOOT
• Vitamin D-dispensing star in the sky
  SUN
• Doha’s country
  QATAR
• Hold your horses!
  WHOA
• One with XY chromosomes in a DNA chart
  MALE
• Thirteen actress Rachel Wood
  EVAN
• Lavish celebration
  GALA
• Meeting outline
  AGENDA
• *Traffic ___ commuter’s standstill nightmare that sucks
  JAM
• ___ juice (cow’s milk slangily)
  MOO
• 100 years
  CENTURY
• ___ off (fall asleep)
  NOD
• Fraction of a joule (anagram of reg)
  ERG
• Bus’s planned path with a number for short
  RTE
• Victim from Shakespeare’s Othello
  CASSIO
• *Slimy predatory worm that sucks blood
  LEECH
• Snowy ___ (Hedwig’s species)
  OWL
• Cook of Apple
  TIM
• Great Wall of China’s continent
  ASIA
• Net material
  MESH
• Film spool
  REEL
• Printer’s potion?
  INK
• ___ ball (white pool ball)
  CUE
• London language for short
  ENG