All Atlantic Games Answers For Today (January 11, 2026)

• 1 Across: Not extraneous – ORGANIC
• 8 Across: Shraddhanand and Vivekananda, for two – SWAMIS
• 14 Across: Foster – NOURISH
• 15 Across: Bubble up? – AERATE
• 16 Across: 2023 Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee for The Whale – HONGCHAU
• 18 Across: Pattern on some school uniforms – TARTAN
• 19 Across: “No harm, no foul” – ITSOK
• 20 Across: ___ world (hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth) – RNA
• 22 Across: JCPenney competitor – KOHLS
• 23 Across: It’s straight from the horse’s mouth? – REIN
• 24 Across: Third-person possessive pronoun with two apostrophes – YALLS
• 26 Across: The Imitation Game setting, for short – WWII
• 27 Across: Designation for summer hrs. in London, Ontario, and Gainesville, Florida – EDT
• 28 Across: Meal plans – RECIPES
• 30 Across: South Korean polymath Terra ___ – HAN
• 31 Across: Exactly what you need – JUSTTHETHING
• 33 Across: Historical symbol of Festival de Cannes – PALME
• 34 Across: Food that can be prepared a la cubana or a la valenciana – ARROZ
• 35 Across: Lickety-split, say – INAHEARTBEAT
• 38 Across: Jaws that might be gaping – MAW
• 39 Across: Least thought through – RASHEST
• 40 Across: “I’ve ___ enough!” – HAD
• 43 Across: Touring group? – AMPS
• 45 Across: Opportunities to get back on track? – MEETS
• 46 Across: Like one’s legs after climbing up a lot of stairs, maybe – SORE
• 47 Across: Counterpart of tired and inspired, in a meme – WIRED
• 49 Across: “Certainly so” – TIS
• 50 Across: “Get outta here!” – SCRAM
• 51 Across: ___ by (followed without objection) – ABIDED
• 53 Across: Game that uses hand signals – ROSHAMBO
• 55 Across: Professional in a pickup game, e.g. – RINGER
• 56 Across: Jake Shimabukuro’s instrument – UKULELE
• 57 Across: Food hall or bistro, for example – EATERY
• 58 Across: Like the walls of some retro living rooms – PANELED

• 1 Down: Available for employment – ONHIRE
• 2 Down: ___ to the spot – ROOTED
• 3 Down: Really puts one’s foot down? – GUNSIT
• 4 Down: Almost 1 percent of the atmosphere – ARGON
• 5 Down: Cave with a distinctive sound? – NICK
• 6 Down: Kinda, sorta – ISH
• 7 Down: UTF-8, for example – CHARACTERSET
• 8 Down: Got settled before watching a movie – SAT
• 9 Down: Not very convincing, say – WEAK
• 10 Down: Symbol hidden in the FedEx logo – ARROW
• 11 Down: Person who’s really good at solving problems? – MATHWHIZ
• 12 Down: Language in which Elena Ferrante’s novels were first published – ITALIAN
• 13 Down: Intuitively picking up, maybe – SENSING
• 17 Down: Like pilots when they’re not working? – UNLIT
• 21 Down: Course in which you might get an A? – ALPHABETSOUP
• 24 Down: “Okey dokey, your grace!” – YESMAAM
• 25 Down: Völva of Norse mythology, e.g. – SEERESS
• 28 Down: Item that’s made to measure – RULER
• 29 Down: Gamer’s plan, informally – STRAT
• 31 Down: God referenced in the proclamation “God is man and man is God” – JAH
• 32 Down: Going quickly – HOT
• 33 Down: Piece of Lab evidence? – PAWPRINT
• 35 Down: “You’ve made that abundantly clear” – IMAWARE
• 36 Down: Home of the Fish River Canyon, Africa’s largest canyon – NAMIBIA
• 37 Down: A Literature of ___ Own (Elaine Showalter book) – THEIR
• 40 Down: Spam maker – HORMEL
• 41 Down: Fit for growing crops – ARABLE
• 42 Down: Showed off, for short – DEMOED
• 44 Down: ___ wren (songbird found in grassy marsh habitats) – SEDGE
• 46 Down: Cod piece? – SCALE
• 48 Down: Animal on the cover of Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians – DEER
• 50 Down: Eschew – SHUN
• 52 Down: ___ ___ Desert (Mario Kart track) – DRY
• 54 Down: Early Stranger Cole genre – SKA

• [quits one’s job and moves to Florida, say 😎] = retires
• [state with alligators and Mickey Mouse] = Florida
• [cheese-loving rodent 🐭] = Mouse
• [parmesan or gouda, e.g.] = cheese
• [gives up, like smoking 🙅] = quits
• [direction you might look to see if gullible is written on the ceiling] = up
• [glass that’s good to shatter] = ceiling
• [“let’s raise a ___” 🥂] = glass
• [hare’s slow and steady rival 🐢] = tortoise
• [poke who needs to hurry up] = slow
• [thing you can still do on Facebook 👉] = poke
• [this is a smiley one 🙂] = Face
• [schedule an appointment or land a gig 📚] = book
• [sight for sore eyes, for the seasick 🤢] = land
• [windows to the soul 👀] = eyes
• [number before blastoff 🚀] = one
• [“can I have your ___?” ☎️] = number

• Word 1: IRON
• Word 2: ODES
• Word 3: RABIES
• Word 4: POSTURE
• Word 5: PHANTASM
• Word 6: SPITFIRE

Follow these steps to get these words:

1. Start by dropping the word INFIRM on the right-most side
2. Then drop the word PASTA in the centre
3. Then drop the word OBTUSE on the right-most side
4. Then drop the word SHADIER on the left-most side
5. After that, drop the word PORES in the centre
6. Finally, drop the word PRISONS on the left-most side.

• Category 1: 9 letters: ERADIATED
• Category 2: Exactly 5 consonants: DABBERS
• Category 3: No repeated letters: SABIN