New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 01/01/2026. The January 01 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a You’re looking at it!THIS
- 5a File typeRASP
- 9a Piano technicianTUNER
- 14a Parasite’s targetHOST
- 15a Had no co-conspiratorsACTEDALONE
- 17a Preparation for many a surprise partyRUSE
- 18a Which 1991 comedy starred Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss?WHATABOUTBOB
- 19a QuotidianUSUAL
- 21a Charon’s domainSTYX
- 22a Bistecca ___ fiorentina (Italian dish)ALLA
- 23a Role for Annie Potts on “Young Sheldon”MEEMAW
- 25a Are: Fr.ETES
- 27a Gift for a musicianEAR
- 28a Figure in much W.W. I propagandaUNCLESAM
- 31a Kid with a routePAPERBOY
- 35a Home to the first N.F.L. team to win a Super Bowl in its own stadium (2021)TAMPA
- 39a What Edvard Munch painting inspired a poster for “Home Alone”?THESCREAM
- 40a What fictional English heavy metal band consists of David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls?SPINALTAP
- 42a Like the origins of Buddhism and HinduismASIAN
- 43a Chill pill, essentiallyRELAXANT
- 44a InvestigateSCOPEOUT
- 47a Prefix with geneticsEPI
- 50a Assessment, informallyEVAL
- 51a Gorgon slain by PerseusMEDUSA
- 56a CohortGANG
- 58a Where many family names begin O’-ERIN
- 60a Denizen of hellDEMON
- 61a Test graders’ aids ? or what is needed to respond to the six trivia questions in this puzzle?ANSWERKEYS
- 64a Neighbor of JavaBALI
- 65a Nancy Drew and Sherlock HolmesDETECTIVES
- 66a Prayer leaderIMAM
- 67a Lit for fun, e.g.SLANG
- 68a ___-à-___TETE
- 69a BoreTIRE
- Down
- 1d Idly pluck, as a banjoTHRUM
- 2d It always wins, they sayHOUSE
- 3d One of Us, say?ISSUE
- 4d Driver of some enginesSTEAM
- 5d Like most oysters served with mignonetteRAW
- 6d Some Bavarian criesACHS
- 7d MajesticSTATELY
- 8d Which unit of data storage could hold 200,000 HD movies?PETABYTE
- 9d 19th letterTAU
- 10d Sephora competitorULTA
- 11d GallantNOBLE
- 12d ___ GayENOLA
- 13d Steel rod with ridgesREBAR
- 16d Maliciously publishes the private info of onlineDOXES
- 20d Actor Fishburne of “The Matrix”LAURENCE
- 24d Org. for the Fever and the DreamWNBA
- 26d FilledSATIATED
- 29d End of many modern addressesCOM
- 30d Cat breed from an island in the Irish SeaMANX
- 31d Educational support grp.PTA
- 32d Sounds of realizationAHS
- 33d Who won Best Supporting Actor for Martin Scorsese’s “GoodFellas?”PESCI
- 34d Pitchers’ statsERAS
- 36d What Mediterranean nation lies between Italy and Libya?MALTA
- 37d Go for the gold?PAN
- 38d AproposAPT
- 40d Initialism for an online advertiserSEO
- 41d Pitted fruitPLUM
- 43d Take over forRELIEVE
- 45d UndisguisedOVERT
- 46d “Sit!”PARKIT
- 47d “Horrors!”EGADS
- 48d Group of expertsPANEL
- 49d 2010 release now owned by Meta, informallyINSTA
- 52d Entry in red inkDEBIT
- 53d So-called “fifth taste”UMAMI
- 54d Kind of wind ? or an alternative to windSOLAR
- 55d “Mob Psycho 100” genreANIME
- 57d Singer StefaniGWEN
- 59d Negative for NikolaiNYET
- 62d Heart chart, for shortECG
- 63d Buffalo-to-Baltimore dir.SSE