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NYT Crossword January 18 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, January 18 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Bit of regal headwear6 lettersSee answer ›7Singer Horne4 lettersSee answer ›11Develops alopecia8 lettersSee answer ›19Total6 lettersSee answer ›202022 World Series champ5 lettersSee answer ›22College town nicknamed "A2"8 lettersSee answer ›23Like the Gospel of Mark, sequentially?12 lettersSee answer ›25Concert lineups8 lettersSee answer ›26Matriarch of six of the 12 tribes of Israel4 lettersSee answer ›27Make a choice3 lettersSee answer ›28Trouble3 lettersSee answer ›301982 film whose name is a security program4 lettersSee answer ›31Text that says "Congratulations! You've won a MacBook Pro," probably4 lettersSee answer ›33Prepare for a mechanic's certification exam?15 lettersSee answer ›40Pulsates6 lettersSee answer ›42Rock's Plastic ___ Band3 lettersSee answer ›43Central parts of planets5 lettersSee answer ›44Hairdresser's supply3 lettersSee answer ›45Molecule that might be modeled with Twizzlers and gummies in biology class3 lettersSee answer ›46Soft shots, in tennis5 lettersSee answer ›48Meditative chants3 lettersSee answer ›49Plant used in pickling4 lettersSee answer ›50H.S. exam whose highest score is 363 lettersSee answer ›53Source of income for a website6 lettersSee answer ›55Half of a popular social media app3 lettersSee answer ›57Discontinued iPods designed to fit into watch pockets5 lettersSee answer ›58Original people to move into Cancún's peninsula?20 lettersSee answer ›63Affectionate term for una madre4 lettersSee answer ›64Designation for the Louisville Bats and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp3 lettersSee answer ›65Preceder of Peacock and White in the game Clue3 lettersSee answer ›66"Big" comic protagonist4 lettersSee answer ›67"Don't look at me for help" … or a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme21 lettersSee answer ›75Dove's dwelling4 lettersSee answer ›76Wii remote batteries3 lettersSee answer ›77Sloth in 2002's "Ice Age"3 lettersSee answer ›78Sensation before a migraine, medically4 lettersSee answer ›79Gets married while wearing protective gear?20 lettersSee answer ›85Quarrels5 lettersSee answer ›86Itty-bitty3 lettersSee answer ›87Japanese craft that literally translates to "tray planting"6 lettersSee answer ›88"This Is your brain on drugs," e.g., for short3 lettersSee answer ›89Best-selling romance author Jimenez4 lettersSee answer ›90One of 2,214 for Babe Ruth3 lettersSee answer ›92"Shrek!" author William5 lettersSee answer ›94Common item at a checkout line, informally3 lettersSee answer ›96#1 spot in London?3 lettersSee answer ›97Honkers without horns5 lettersSee answer ›99It might come with a shell3 lettersSee answer ›100Go over again6 lettersSee answer ›103List of restaurant offerings for kids not yet three years old?15 lettersSee answer ›107Kerfuffle4 lettersSee answer ›108Oodles4 lettersSee answer ›109Someone who might issue a travel warning?3 lettersSee answer ›110"Roger that!"3 lettersSee answer ›112Name that means "pink" in Spanish4 lettersSee answer ›114Relative of a husky8 lettersSee answer ›118Wedding planner's aid?12 lettersSee answer ›122"5 stars"8 lettersSee answer ›123It might raise a bunch of dough5 lettersSee answer ›124Stab of pain6 lettersSee answer ›125Values8 lettersSee answer ›126Businesses offering mud masks4 lettersSee answer ›127Pulls the chain of, so to speak6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Word on either side of "or no"4 lettersSee answer ›2Overrun6 lettersSee answer ›3Add electronically, in a way6 lettersSee answer ›4Like a really big fan7 lettersSee answer ›5Go wrong3 lettersSee answer ›6Bad thing not to get (especially at the office?)4 lettersSee answer ›7The Cinnamon Dolce or the Blonde Vanilla, at Starbucks5 lettersSee answer ›8"Silentium ___ aureum" ("Silence is golden")3 lettersSee answer ›9High degree3 lettersSee answer ›10"Is it time to rethink this relationship?"7 lettersSee answer ›11Hilarious thing3 lettersSee answer ›12Like George H.W. Bush, but not George W. Bush7 lettersSee answer ›13Starters' followers7 lettersSee answer ›14Businesses whose employees work standing up6 lettersSee answer ›15Carry in5 lettersSee answer ›16"Chiseled" features3 lettersSee answer ›17Destiny in life3 lettersSee answer ›18Hippocratic oath followers, for short3 lettersSee answer ›21"Stop! That hurts!"4 lettersSee answer ›24Car financing figs.4 lettersSee answer ›29List shortener3 lettersSee answer ›32"Hidden Figures" co-star Janelle5 lettersSee answer ›34Breathable fabric used in mosquito nets5 lettersSee answer ›35___ child5 lettersSee answer ›36What a bad student might play5 lettersSee answer ›37Menzel of Broadway5 lettersSee answer ›38Guitar string material5 lettersSee answer ›39Fish traditionally in the British dish "pie and mash"4 lettersSee answer ›41What kitsch exhibits8 lettersSee answer ›46___ Lama5 lettersSee answer ›47Part of a bedtime routine5 lettersSee answer ›49Healthy, fiber-rich snack7 lettersSee answer ›50Where some bills originate4 lettersSee answer ›51Former transportation secretary Elaine4 lettersSee answer ›52Chinese competitor of Amazon4 lettersSee answer ›54Loses freshness6 lettersSee answer ›56"In that case …"4 lettersSee answer ›57Grp. that Sweden joined in 20244 lettersSee answer ›59Vegas7 lettersSee answer ›60Sensation5 lettersSee answer ›61Removes from the top of one's profile, as an Instagram post6 lettersSee answer ›62Hearts or spades, but not diamonds8 lettersSee answer ›69Classic Orson Welles protagonist4 lettersSee answer ›70Ameliorates5 lettersSee answer ›71Via5 lettersSee answer ›72Feature of undermixed batter4 lettersSee answer ›73Greek god whose name becomes a flower if you move the first letter to the end4 lettersSee answer ›74Golden Globe nominee Rooney4 lettersSee answer ›79"V," to a violinist5 lettersSee answer ›80Padmé Amidala's home planet in "Star Wars"5 lettersSee answer ›81"If only!"5 lettersSee answer ›82Steel girder5 lettersSee answer ›83Bête ___5 lettersSee answer ›84Images that can rip off human creators, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›85Pretzel topper4 lettersSee answer ›90Trees with heart-shaped leaves7 lettersSee answer ›91Creature, cutesily7 lettersSee answer ›93Candies that crack with a crunch7 lettersSee answer ›95Last of the 13 original colonies to be founded7 lettersSee answer ›97Some lawn ornaments6 lettersSee answer ›98Part of E.N.T.3 lettersSee answer ›100Kicked oneself for4 lettersSee answer ›101Prettifies6 lettersSee answer ›102500 mg 2x/day, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›104Source of a natural sweetener5 lettersSee answer ›105Last name shared by three actors on "Schitt's Creek"4 lettersSee answer ›106Russian denials5 lettersSee answer ›111The Panthers of the A.C.C.4 lettersSee answer ›113Midwest city whose name becomes a Southwest city if you move the first letter to the end4 lettersSee answer ›114Not around, informally3 lettersSee answer ›115Hirt and Hirschfeld3 lettersSee answer ›116Día de ___ Reyes Magos3 lettersSee answer ›117They're often depicted with green skin, for short3 lettersSee answer ›119Something much needed after an all-nighter3 lettersSee answer ›120Today preceder3 lettersSee answer ›121Leave speechless3 lettersSee answer ›