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NYT Crossword January 1 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, January 1 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1You're looking at it!4 lettersSee answer ›5File type4 lettersSee answer ›9Piano technician5 lettersSee answer ›14Parasite's target4 lettersSee answer ›15Had no co-conspirators10 lettersSee answer ›17Preparation for many a surprise party4 lettersSee answer ›18Which 1991 comedy starred Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss?12 lettersSee answer ›19Quotidian5 lettersSee answer ›21Charon's domain4 lettersSee answer ›22Bistecca ___ fiorentina (Italian dish)4 lettersSee answer ›23Role for Annie Potts on "Young Sheldon"6 lettersSee answer ›25Are: Fr.4 lettersSee answer ›27Gift for a musician3 lettersSee answer ›28Figure in much W.W. I propaganda8 lettersSee answer ›31Kid with a route8 lettersSee answer ›35Home to the first N.F.L. team to win a Super Bowl in its own stadium (2021)5 lettersSee answer ›39What Edvard Munch painting inspired a poster for "Home Alone"?9 lettersSee answer ›40What fictional English heavy metal band consists of David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls?9 lettersSee answer ›42Like the origins of Buddhism and Hinduism5 lettersSee answer ›43Chill pill, essentially8 lettersSee answer ›44Investigate8 lettersSee answer ›47Prefix with genetics3 lettersSee answer ›50Assessment, informally4 lettersSee answer ›51Gorgon slain by Perseus6 lettersSee answer ›56Cohort4 lettersSee answer ›58Where many family names begin O'-4 lettersSee answer ›60Denizen of hell5 lettersSee answer ›61Test graders' aids … or what is needed to respond to the six trivia questions in this puzzle?10 lettersSee answer ›64Neighbor of Java4 lettersSee answer ›65Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes10 lettersSee answer ›66Prayer leader4 lettersSee answer ›67Lit for fun, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›68___-à-___4 lettersSee answer ›69Bore4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Idly pluck, as a banjo5 lettersSee answer ›2It always wins, they say5 lettersSee answer ›3One of Us, say?5 lettersSee answer ›4Driver of some engines5 lettersSee answer ›5Like most oysters served with mignonette3 lettersSee answer ›6Some Bavarian cries4 lettersSee answer ›7Majestic7 lettersSee answer ›8Which unit of data storage could hold 200,000 HD movies?8 lettersSee answer ›919th letter3 lettersSee answer ›10Sephora competitor4 lettersSee answer ›11Gallant5 lettersSee answer ›12___ Gay5 lettersSee answer ›13Steel rod with ridges5 lettersSee answer ›16Maliciously publishes the private info of online5 lettersSee answer ›20Actor Fishburne of "The Matrix"8 lettersSee answer ›24Org. for the Fever and the Dream4 lettersSee answer ›26Filled8 lettersSee answer ›29End of many modern addresses3 lettersSee answer ›30Cat breed from an island in the Irish Sea4 lettersSee answer ›31Educational support grp.3 lettersSee answer ›32Sounds of realization3 lettersSee answer ›33Who won Best Supporting Actor for Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas?"5 lettersSee answer ›34Pitchers' stats4 lettersSee answer ›36What Mediterranean nation lies between Italy and Libya?5 lettersSee answer ›37Go for the gold?3 lettersSee answer ›38Apropos3 lettersSee answer ›40Initialism for an online advertiser3 lettersSee answer ›41Pitted fruit4 lettersSee answer ›43Take over for7 lettersSee answer ›45Undisguised5 lettersSee answer ›46"Sit!"6 lettersSee answer ›47"Horrors!"5 lettersSee answer ›48Group of experts5 lettersSee answer ›492010 release now owned by Meta, informally5 lettersSee answer ›52Entry in red ink5 lettersSee answer ›53So-called "fifth taste"5 lettersSee answer ›54Kind of wind … or an alternative to wind5 lettersSee answer ›55"Mob Psycho 100" genre5 lettersSee answer ›57Singer Stefani4 lettersSee answer ›59Negative for Nikolai4 lettersSee answer ›62Heart chart, for short3 lettersSee answer ›63Buffalo-to-Baltimore dir.3 lettersSee answer ›