New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 01/17/2026. The January 17 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Expressions of disbelief or exasperationFACEPALMS
- 10a What “margarita” means in SpanishDAISY
- 15a Reputable, in a wayBRANDNAME
- 16a What Anora and Vanya do in 2024’s “Anora”ELOPE
- 17a Too late, sayOUTOFTIME
- 18a Advocate for the political mobilization of the proletariatLENIN
- 19a People often manage with them, in briefMBAS
- 20a You might say “Hmm” when something is thisODD
- 21a Toppings blended with ice creamMIXINS
- 22a Anti-troll measureBAN
- 23a TchotchkeKNICKKNACK
- 25a Protection from dropsRAINCOAT
- 26a With 27-Down, fateful time for a sorority pledgeBID
- 28a City in Illinois’s “Little Egypt” regionCAIRO
- 30a DemureCOY
- 31a Plant with psychoactive leavesCOCA
- 32a Offload (on)FOIST
- 33a Famous monogram found backward in the alphabetMLK
- 34a Tall and thinLANKY
- 35a Revel (in)BASK
- 36a One of five in a typical big bandSAX
- 37a ArchetypesMOLDS
- 38a “All that really matters is if your rhymes was ___” (MF Doom lyric)ILL
- 39a Artificially unsophisticatedFAUXNAIF
- 41a Units for a high-resolution cameraMEGAPIXELS
- 43a IntervalGAP
- 46a Setups for some elaborate group picturesRISERS
- 47a Subject to careful appraisalVET
- 48a Lawyer’s assignmentCASE
- 49a Not budgingINERT
- 50a Ones running along a roadSIDEWALKS
- 52a Bracket contentsTEAMS
- 53a Where someone’s height may be stretched?TINDERBIO
- 54a With 39-Down, pretentiously creativeARTSY
- 55a What antiperspirants can preventPITSTAINS
- Down
- 1d Crude thing to drop, familiarlyFBOMB
- 2d Westernmost territory of the NetherlandsARUBA
- 3d Board game with resourcesCATAN
- 4d Grandson of EveENOS
- 5d Many an attachmentPDF
- 6d ___ Carlos Jobim, father of the bossa novaANTONIO
- 7d Made, as an easy basketball shotLAIDIN
- 8d Longest number writable in standard Roman numeralsMMMDCCCLXXXVIII
- 9d SpySEE
- 10d Use a roller on, as a jacketDELINT
- 11d Digital assistantALEXA
- 12d In which opposites attractIONICBOND
- 13d Flashy taekwondo movesSPINKICKS
- 14d CravingsYENS
- 21d “All right,” folksilyMKAY
- 23d Super Mario ___KART
- 24d EccentricKOOK
- 25d Cybersecurity assessmentRISK
- 27d See 26-AcrossDAY
- 28d Worker who’s the subject of the song “Sixteen Tons”COALMINER
- 29d Cabin choiceAISLESEAT
- 31d Baby rhinoCALF
- 32d Part of the D.O.J.FBI
- 33d So-called “Valley Isle”MAUI
- 34d Writer LowryLOIS
- 36d Good marks?SAPS
- 37d Egg cream alternativesMALTEDS
- 39d See 54-AcrossFARTSY
- 40d Quaint contractionNEEDNT
- 42d Gentlemen, jocularlyGERMS
- 43d Korean barbecue rib dishGALBI
- 44d Greet hospitably at the doorASKIN
- 45d Dough at a taqueríaPESOS
- 46d Servant in “The Handmaid’s Tale”RITA
- 48d Beloved, in ItalianCARA
- 50d Product with the additive zinc dithiophosphateSTP
- 51d Like the weather in much of Equatorial GuineaWET