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Every answer from the Friday, January 2 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.
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1 President who wrote "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it" 5 letters See answer › 2 Default outcomes, perhaps 5 letters See answer › 3 Kind of sequence that proceeds 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... 9 letters See answer › 4 Duration 5 letters See answer › 5 Modern security threat 4 letters See answer › 6 Org. with the Rule of Law Initiative 3 letters See answer › 7 Cylindrical oven 7 letters See answer › 8 Extremely well-liked? 14 letters See answer › 9 Personal opinion? 10 letters See answer › 10 Hooting and hollering 5 letters See answer › 11 Part of an underground network 4 letters See answer › 12 Pithy put-downs 4 letters See answer › 14 Main ingredient in an aviation cocktail 3 letters See answer › 15 "I like the sound of that!" 14 letters See answer › 20 "So adorable!" 3 letters See answer › 24 Prepare to ship, say 5 letters See answer › 26 Delivery means to a gas station 10 letters See answer › 27 Count in the Blues Hall of Fame 5 letters See answer › 28 On the ___ (frequently, informally) 3 letters See answer › 29 Bird whose eggs are sometimes a canvas for Aboriginal art 3 letters See answer › 30 Capotes are flapped at them 5 letters See answer › 31 "Let's go, sleepyhead!" 9 letters See answer › 32 Booking, for short 3 letters See answer › 33 Server's obstacle 3 letters See answer › 38 "Word on the street is ..." 7 letters See answer › 41 ___ Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code" 3 letters See answer › 42 Night of lawlessness in a long-running horror franchise, with "the" 5 letters See answer › 43 Try-hard 5 letters See answer › 45 Kind of acid 5 letters See answer › 46 Stem component 5 letters See answer › 47 Capitulate 4 letters See answer › 48 Lender's security 4 letters See answer › 49 Table outside 4 letters See answer › 50 Big purveyor of health supplements 3 letters See answer › 52 Gender-neutral term in a family 3 letters See answer ›
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