New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 01/22/2026. The January 22 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Purchase of ice cream or cream alePINT
- 5a Cognac label lettersVSOP
- 9a EscapadeANTIC
- 14a Goddess depicted with cow’s hornsISIS
- 15a “Hey, look who’s here!”OHHI
- 16a Film without much wardrobe, informallyPORNO
- 17a Watch soundTICK
- 18a HappensCOMEREDASS
- 20a Left inSTETTED
- 22a Ingredient in a zombieRUM
- 23a Late ___FEE
- 24a AnxiousANTSY
- 25a Francis Ford Coppola’s alma mater, for shortUCLA
- 26a Org. that watches televisionFCC
- 27a Tackling the task at handWORKINGREENNIT
- 31a DumpSTY
- 32a UnceasinglyNOEND
- 33a Hotel room coolers, for shortACS
- 34a Band with the 2008 platinum single “Electric Feel”MGMT
- 35a Cut (in)ETCH
- 38a Flabbergasted feelingAWE
- 40a Prefix meaning “heavens,” as the name of a planet suggestsURANO
- 42a LowSAD
- 45a Result of missing the boatLOREDPORTUNITY
- 49a Activist who was Time’s 1963 Man of the Year, familiarlyMLK
- 50a SweepingVAST
- 51a Seth of Apple TV’s “Platonic”ROGEN
- 52a Furious feelingIRE
- 53a Rescue squad proEMT
- 54a Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tilesESTONIA
- 56a Striking throughXINGREENUT
- 59a “___ what I’m talkin’ ’bout!”DATS
- 60a StandardUSUAL
- 61a Lead-in to -dromeAERO
- 62a OversupplyGLUT
- 63a Full of energyPEPPY
- 64a ___ MixMEOW
- 65a Catch a glimpse ofESPY
- Down
- 1d Tools requiring two peoplePITSAWS
- 2d “Am I wrong about that?”ISITNOT
- 3d “Please, I know better than that”NICETRY
- 4d “You know better than that”TSKTSK
- 5d Sotto ___VOCE
- 6d Sporting flats, saySHOD
- 7d Omega, in physicsOHM
- 8d Approximately 84% of American women have at least onePIERCEDEAR
- 9d Early ancestorAPEMAN
- 10d (The) OKNOD
- 11d With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go ? as seen in this puzzle’s themeTRAFFIC
- 12d Bees, but not birdsINSECTS
- 13d Trig ratioCOSEC
- 19d Kick butt, so to speakRULE
- 21d Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, sayTYING
- 25d Buffet table itemURN
- 28d ___ de plumeNOM
- 29d Increase one’s intensityGETUPSTEAM
- 30d “Hard pass”NAH
- 34d Mal de ___MER
- 36d Channel with the longtime slogan “We Know Drama”TNT
- 37d Legal settingCOURT
- 38d 37-Down orderALLRISE
- 39d RousedWOKENUP
- 41d Turn to mush, maybeROT
- 42d See 11-DownSIGNALS
- 43d Loved every secondATEITUP
- 44d The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g.DYNASTY
- 46d Early pop music’s ___ BrothersEVERLY
- 47d Honorific titleDAME
- 48d Pestering typeNOODGE
- 49d Minor snafuMIXUP
- 54d Mark’s successorEURO
- 55d Put awaySTOW
- 57d Space between here and thereGAP
- 58d French word between two surnamesNEE