# Everyday Puzzles Crossword Answers - September 13, 2026

- Across: Short message service — **SMS**
- Across: Road or track competitions for runners — **RACES**
- Across: Egyptian capital, on the River Nile — **CAIRO**
- Across: Spanish or Italian word for chicken — **POLLO**
- Across: Someone who helps the injured — **AIDER**
- Across: To grumble; to complain — **GROAN**
- Across: Loses blood — **BLEEDS**
- Across: New Hampshire mountain range includes Mount Bond — **TWIN**
- Across: Olympic Swiss city situated on Lake Léman — **LAUSANNE**
- Across: Spinning toy — **TOP**
- Across: You skate on it; good in drinks — **ICE**
- Across: Of a plant, to develop a seed or fruit — **SET**
- Across: Tool often found in an IKEA purchase — **ALLENKEY**
- Across: Entrepreneur and Remington spokesman, Victor — **KIAM**
- Across: Head bones — **SKULLS**
- Across: Forcibly remove a tenant from a property — **EVICT**
- Across: George, author whose real name was Mary Ann Evans — **ELIOT**
- Across: Enchantress who married Jason of the Argonauts — **MEDEA**
- Across: Oscar-winning actress Witherspoon — **REESE**
- Across: Second-largest city of the Ruhr in Germany — **ESSEN**
- Across: Slang for them, in song about bones, dry bones — **DEM**
- Down: Crusty layer that forms on a cut or graze — **SCAB**
- Down: __ to your leader, say aliens landing on Earth — **TAKEME**
- Down: Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks got this in the 1998 romcom — **MAIL**
- Down: Their oil is essential for Italian cuisine — **OLIVES**
- Down: A dish served alongside a main course — **SIDE**
- Down: Tartan patterns, red and green for the season — **PLAIDS**
- Down: Short video on Instagram — **REEL**
- Down: Master of ceremonies, phonetically speaking — **EMCEE**
- Down: To make someone a priest — **ORDAIN**
- Down: Boring beige color — **TAN**
- Down: What a vacuum cleaner does — **SUCKS**
- Down: Abbreviation for Final Fantasy series game genre — **RPG**
- Down: One searching for hiders in a children's game — **SEEKER**
- Down: The largest artery of the human body — **AORTA**
- Down: Chocolate log eaten on Christmas — **YULE**
- Down: Circus jokers — **CLOWNS**
- Down: Told false statements — **LIED**
- Down: Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character in Seinfeld — **ELAINE**
- Down: Failure won't make it worse, "nothing to __" — **LOSE**
- Down: 14-line poem — **SONNET**
- Down: Stop or prevent a flow of liquid — **STEM**

Source: https://cluestash.com/everyday-puzzles/crossword/2026-09-13/