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NYT Crossword January 7 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Wednesday, January 7 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip"4 lettersSee answer ›5Gets better5 lettersSee answer ›10"Great" animals4 lettersSee answer ›14Super-cool4 lettersSee answer ›15Subject of 2001 bankruptcy headlines5 lettersSee answer ›16"That's crazy!," on the internet4 lettersSee answer ›17Wing woman?10 lettersSee answer ›19Not right4 lettersSee answer ›20Second-most-common surname in Korea, after Kim3 lettersSee answer ›21Right away4 lettersSee answer ›22Sports center5 lettersSee answer ›23They have pH's below 75 lettersSee answer ›25Cover girl?9 lettersSee answer ›28Kind of makeup you're born with?7 lettersSee answer ›30XXX counterpart3 lettersSee answer ›31Org. with a 3-1-1 rule3 lettersSee answer ›32Gave a meal3 lettersSee answer ›33W-9 fig.3 lettersSee answer ›34San Francisco or San Antonio4 lettersSee answer ›35Homecoming queen?11 lettersSee answer ›38Unhealthy haze4 lettersSee answer ›40Mathematician Terence3 lettersSee answer ›41Musical genre that's the subject of the 2007 book "Everybody Hurts"3 lettersSee answer ›42Game of pursuit3 lettersSee answer ›43On behalf of3 lettersSee answer ›44Places for pampering pups7 lettersSee answer ›48Sister-in-law?9 lettersSee answer ›51Witherspoon who played 48-Across5 lettersSee answer ›52"We need to talk"5 lettersSee answer ›53Smurf elder4 lettersSee answer ›55Miss, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›56Hot stuff4 lettersSee answer ›57Cat lady?10 lettersSee answer ›60Uno más dos4 lettersSee answer ›61Grads, now5 lettersSee answer ›62Potatoes, in Indian cooking4 lettersSee answer ›63Text sent upon arrival4 lettersSee answer ›64Rapper ___ Elliott5 lettersSee answer ›65Course list?4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Circadian dysrhythmia, less fancily6 lettersSee answer ›2By the item6 lettersSee answer ›3Enjoy a home-cooked meal, say6 lettersSee answer ›4"Oh no!," in comics3 lettersSee answer ›5Certain possessive pronoun4 lettersSee answer ›6With all judges present6 lettersSee answer ›7Grilled cornmeal cake5 lettersSee answer ›8"haha"3 lettersSee answer ›9"Black Jeopardy!" show, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›10Nobel, for one5 lettersSee answer ›11Bold accessory for a suit8 lettersSee answer ›12Sincere7 lettersSee answer ›13Back off (from)7 lettersSee answer ›18Day for hunting6 lettersSee answer ›22"The Bear" actress Edebiri3 lettersSee answer ›24Clear up, as a windshield5 lettersSee answer ›26Snoopy4 lettersSee answer ›27Savory rice porridge6 lettersSee answer ›29Words of concurrence6 lettersSee answer ›33"___ 'nuff!"3 lettersSee answer ›34Almost there5 lettersSee answer ›35Cynophilist8 lettersSee answer ›36Purple boba choice4 lettersSee answer ›37Travel option that serves 46 states6 lettersSee answer ›38Secrecy7 lettersSee answer ›39Virus of sorts7 lettersSee answer ›43Chain email abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›44Biblical collection of 150 poems6 lettersSee answer ›45Kitchen grinder6 lettersSee answer ›46Kutcher of "That '70s Show"6 lettersSee answer ›47"Later"6 lettersSee answer ›49Clear, as a whiteboard5 lettersSee answer ›50Equivalent of a 1.3 G.P.A., say5 lettersSee answer ›54Small bouquet4 lettersSee answer ›57Hawaiian pizza topping3 lettersSee answer ›58Lilly of pharmaceuticals3 lettersSee answer ›59Dr. Seuss's Sam-___3 lettersSee answer ›