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NYT Crossword January 8 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, January 8 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___ canto3 lettersSee answer ›4Lessons that might be spelled out for you?4 lettersSee answer ›8Photographer Diane5 lettersSee answer ›13Wide-open Q&A3 lettersSee answer ›14Coffee option4 lettersSee answer ›15Snatching sound, in the comics5 lettersSee answer ›16Nonverbal "well done"8 lettersSee answer ›18Well-known scheme designer5 lettersSee answer ›19One of the two Boolean values, in programming4 lettersSee answer ›20Disney princess whose name is one letter off from a common princess accessory5 lettersSee answer ›22Gimlet base3 lettersSee answer ›23Dundee dissent3 lettersSee answer ›25Cars with retractable roofs8 lettersSee answer ›27What Neapolitan ice cream is divided into6 lettersSee answer ›30Compete (for)3 lettersSee answer ›31Bit in a breakfast bowl3 lettersSee answer ›32Benefactor with a limited number of grants?5 lettersSee answer ›35Symbol of the "Black is beautiful" movement4 lettersSee answer ›39College concern seen in 16-, 25-, 49- and 63-Across?14 lettersSee answer ›42Cathedral recess4 lettersSee answer ›43Full of zing5 lettersSee answer ›44Tallahassee sch.3 lettersSee answer ›45Get rid of3 lettersSee answer ›47Tea traders?6 lettersSee answer ›49Accidentally burn, perhaps8 lettersSee answer ›54Influential power3 lettersSee answer ›55Feel under the weather3 lettersSee answer ›56It's a start!5 lettersSee answer ›58___-free4 lettersSee answer ›61Brand in the feminine care aisle5 lettersSee answer ›63Results of wearing some uncomfortable shoes8 lettersSee answer ›65Mexican street food typically served with cheese, chili and lime5 lettersSee answer ›66Hit TV series set at the fictional William McKinley High School4 lettersSee answer ›67Cpl. or sgt.3 lettersSee answer ›68Grannies5 lettersSee answer ›69Fictional lover of Rochester4 lettersSee answer ›70Many Ph.D.s-to-be, for short3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Bangkok currency4 lettersSee answer ›2Doha dignitary4 lettersSee answer ›3Heineken subsidiary whose name means "small bodies of water"9 lettersSee answer ›4Go on, in dialogue3 lettersSee answer ›5One who eats crisps and uses a loo4 lettersSee answer ›6Kind of duty5 lettersSee answer ›7Stab, in a way5 lettersSee answer ›8Spanish exclamation akin to "Oh, baby!"6 lettersSee answer ›9Small hopper in the Hundred Acre Wood3 lettersSee answer ›10"Spot on!"5 lettersSee answer ›11Open, as a fanny pack5 lettersSee answer ›12Scrapes5 lettersSee answer ›17Get wind of4 lettersSee answer ›21Knickknack7 lettersSee answer ›24"We stand today on the ___ of a new frontier": John F. Kennedy, 7/15/19604 lettersSee answer ›26Nursing spot4 lettersSee answer ›27Attire for a fraternity party, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›28Instrument originating in ancient Sumer4 lettersSee answer ›29Jump at, as an opportunity7 lettersSee answer ›33Opposite of SSW3 lettersSee answer ›34Maybes3 lettersSee answer ›36"In da Club" rapper9 lettersSee answer ›37Parks in history4 lettersSee answer ›38Albatross, so to speak4 lettersSee answer ›40Beloved4 lettersSee answer ›41Thumbs-up votes4 lettersSee answer ›46PlayStation alternatives6 lettersSee answer ›48So-called "father of the American cartoon"4 lettersSee answer ›49Like the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey5 lettersSee answer ›50It takes a bow in a concert hall5 lettersSee answer ›51Sir ___ Hercules John5 lettersSee answer ›52Indigenous people at the center of 2023's "Killers of the Flower Moon"5 lettersSee answer ›53___ green5 lettersSee answer ›57Layer4 lettersSee answer ›59Sea creature that can weigh 400 pounds at birth4 lettersSee answer ›60Possessive of a Chinese menu?4 lettersSee answer ›62Zeta follower3 lettersSee answer ›64Go on dates with3 lettersSee answer ›