Home›NYT Crossword›January 5 2026

NYT Crossword January 5 2026 Answers

Deborah SimmonsDeborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated January 5 2026Sharef𝕏✉

All Clues & Answers

76 CLUESDIFFICULTY

Every answer from the Monday, January 5 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Lynn Lempel · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Value5 lettersSee answer ›6Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii3 lettersSee answer ›9Angel's headgear4 lettersSee answer ›13Listlessness5 lettersSee answer ›14Score like 5-5 or 10-103 lettersSee answer ›15Fruit-peeling gadget5 lettersSee answer ›16Meeting spot for a company's overseers9 lettersSee answer ›18Ventilated5 lettersSee answer ›19Actor Reeves who plays John Wick5 lettersSee answer ›20Clothing6 lettersSee answer ›21Wrestler-turned-actor with a mohawk3 lettersSee answer ›241976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie10 lettersSee answer ›26Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice7 lettersSee answer ›29Gloppy gunk3 lettersSee answer ›30Op-___ (newspaper pieces)3 lettersSee answer ›31Advantageous quality5 lettersSee answer ›32Aristocrat5 lettersSee answer ›34Enjoy a vacation day, say15 lettersSee answer ›40Reside5 lettersSee answer ›41Burr who dueled with Hamilton5 lettersSee answer ›42Wane3 lettersSee answer ›45One ___ time3 lettersSee answer ›46Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens7 lettersSee answer ›48Bug killer that goes "smack!"10 lettersSee answer ›51Losing general at Appomattox3 lettersSee answer ›52Relating to a son or daughter6 lettersSee answer ›53Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl"5 lettersSee answer ›56Poet Dickinson5 lettersSee answer ›57Gridiron success … or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across9 lettersSee answer ›61Backpackers' shelters5 lettersSee answer ›62Write-___ (unlikely election winners)3 lettersSee answer ›63Home with a dome5 lettersSee answer ›64Lumps of coal, for a snowman4 lettersSee answer ›65Understand3 lettersSee answer ›66Relinquished5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Spider's creation3 lettersSee answer ›2Peace promoter Yoko3 lettersSee answer ›3Cell's messenger material3 lettersSee answer ›4Istanbul native4 lettersSee answer ›5Conceal4 lettersSee answer ›6Lacking a key, in music6 lettersSee answer ›7Crazy Horse's people5 lettersSee answer ›8Adjustable skirt feature3 lettersSee answer ›9Port-au-Prince's country5 lettersSee answer ›10Get there6 lettersSee answer ›11Looked lasciviously6 lettersSee answer ›12Commands6 lettersSee answer ›15Police officer who monitors an assigned area9 lettersSee answer ›17Label as G or R, say4 lettersSee answer ›20Spicy marinade with chili peppers5 lettersSee answer ›21Exam for a doctor-to-be4 lettersSee answer ›22Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall4 lettersSee answer ›23Walrus's long tooth4 lettersSee answer ›25Composer Stravinsky4 lettersSee answer ›27Have to have4 lettersSee answer ›28Passengers getting an illicit free ride9 lettersSee answer ›32Org. with Patriot games3 lettersSee answer ›33Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo"4 lettersSee answer ›35Pertaining to development in the womb5 lettersSee answer ›36Opposite of hilly4 lettersSee answer ›37Like some history or hygiene4 lettersSee answer ›38City surrounding Vatican City4 lettersSee answer ›39On bended ___4 lettersSee answer ›42Overly refined6 lettersSee answer ›43"Yikes!," to a Brit6 lettersSee answer ›44Reporter's attribution atop an article6 lettersSee answer ›46Read6 lettersSee answer ›47Rock's Carmen or Clapton4 lettersSee answer ›49Earthy deposits by a river5 lettersSee answer ›50Steak similar to a porterhouse5 lettersSee answer ›54Stylish4 lettersSee answer ›55Margin4 lettersSee answer ›57"___ better to have loved and lost ..."3 lettersSee answer ›58Passé3 lettersSee answer ›59Misfortune3 lettersSee answer ›60Silent approval3 lettersSee answer ›