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NYT Crossword January 17 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, January 17 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Expressions of disbelief or exasperation9 lettersSee answer ›10What "margarita" means in Spanish5 lettersSee answer ›15Reputable, in a way9 lettersSee answer ›16What Anora and Vanya do in 2024's "Anora"5 lettersSee answer ›17Too late, say9 lettersSee answer ›18Advocate for the political mobilization of the proletariat5 lettersSee answer ›19People often manage with them, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›20You might say "Hmm" when something is this3 lettersSee answer ›21Toppings blended with ice cream6 lettersSee answer ›22Anti-troll measure3 lettersSee answer ›23Tchotchke10 lettersSee answer ›25Protection from drops8 lettersSee answer ›26With 27-Down, fateful time for a sorority pledge3 lettersSee answer ›28City in Illinois's "Little Egypt" region5 lettersSee answer ›30Demure3 lettersSee answer ›31Plant with psychoactive leaves4 lettersSee answer ›32Offload (on)5 lettersSee answer ›33Famous monogram found backward in the alphabet3 lettersSee answer ›34Tall and thin5 lettersSee answer ›35Revel (in)4 lettersSee answer ›36One of five in a typical big band3 lettersSee answer ›37Archetypes5 lettersSee answer ›38"All that really matters is if your rhymes was ___" (MF Doom lyric)3 lettersSee answer ›39Artificially unsophisticated8 lettersSee answer ›41Units for a high-resolution camera10 lettersSee answer ›43Interval3 lettersSee answer ›46Setups for some elaborate group pictures6 lettersSee answer ›47Subject to careful appraisal3 lettersSee answer ›48Lawyer's assignment4 lettersSee answer ›49Not budging5 lettersSee answer ›50Ones running along a road9 lettersSee answer ›52Bracket contents5 lettersSee answer ›53Where someone's height may be stretched?9 lettersSee answer ›54With 39-Down, pretentiously creative5 lettersSee answer ›55What antiperspirants can prevent9 lettersSee answer ›

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1Crude thing to drop, familiarly5 lettersSee answer ›2Westernmost territory of the Netherlands5 lettersSee answer ›3Board game with resources5 lettersSee answer ›4Grandson of Eve4 lettersSee answer ›5Many an attachment3 lettersSee answer ›6___ Carlos Jobim, father of the bossa nova7 lettersSee answer ›7Made, as an easy basketball shot6 lettersSee answer ›8Longest number writable in standard Roman numerals15 lettersSee answer ›9Spy3 lettersSee answer ›10Use a roller on, as a jacket6 lettersSee answer ›11Digital assistant5 lettersSee answer ›12In which opposites attract9 lettersSee answer ›13Flashy taekwondo moves9 lettersSee answer ›14Cravings4 lettersSee answer ›21"All right," folksily4 lettersSee answer ›23Super Mario ___4 lettersSee answer ›24Eccentric4 lettersSee answer ›25Cybersecurity assessment4 lettersSee answer ›27See 26-Across3 lettersSee answer ›28Worker who's the subject of the song "Sixteen Tons"9 lettersSee answer ›29Cabin choice9 lettersSee answer ›31Baby rhino4 lettersSee answer ›32Part of the D.O.J.3 lettersSee answer ›33So-called "Valley Isle"4 lettersSee answer ›34Writer Lowry4 lettersSee answer ›36Good marks?4 lettersSee answer ›37Egg cream alternatives7 lettersSee answer ›39See 54-Across6 lettersSee answer ›40Quaint contraction6 lettersSee answer ›42Gentlemen, jocularly5 lettersSee answer ›43Korean barbecue rib dish5 lettersSee answer ›44Greet hospitably at the door5 lettersSee answer ›45Dough at a taquería5 lettersSee answer ›46Servant in "The Handmaid's Tale"4 lettersSee answer ›48Beloved, in Italian4 lettersSee answer ›50Product with the additive zinc dithiophosphate3 lettersSee answer ›51Like the weather in much of Equatorial Guinea3 lettersSee answer ›