New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 01/05/2026. The January 05 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a ValueWORTH
- 6a Volcanic coating that buried PompeiiASH
- 9a Overhead light?HALO
- 13a ListlessnessENNUI
- 14a Situation that precedes overtimeTIE
- 15a Fruit-peeling gadgetPARER
- 16a Meeting spot for a company’s overseersBOARDROOM
- 18a VentilatedAIRED
- 19a Actor Reeves who plays John WickKEANU
- 20a ClothingATTIRE
- 21a Wrestler-turned-actor with a trademark doMRT
- 24a 1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbieTAXIDRIVER
- 26a Lawyer, or a lawyer’s adviceCOUNSEL
- 29a Gloppy gunkGOO
- 30a Op-___ (newspaper pieces)EDS
- 31a Advantageous qualityASSET
- 32a AristocratNOBLE
- 34a Enjoy a vacation day, sayTAKEOFFFROMWORK
- 40a ResideDWELL
- 41a Burr who dueled with HamiltonAARON
- 42a WaneEBB
- 45a One ___ timeATA
- 46a Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne ClemensPENNAME
- 48a Bug killer that goes “smack!”FLYSWATTER
- 51a Losing general at AppomattoxLEE
- 52a Relating to a son or daughterFILIAL
- 53a Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway’s “Funny Girl”BRICE
- 56a Poet DickinsonEMILY
- 57a Gridiron success ? or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-AcrossTOUCHDOWN
- 61a Backpackers’ sheltersTENTS
- 62a Write-___ (unlikely election winners)INS
- 63a Home with a domeIGLOO
- 64a Lumps of coal, for a snowmanEYES
- 65a UnderstandSEE
- 66a RelinquishedCEDED
- Down
- 1d Spider’s creationWEB
- 2d Peace promoter YokoONO
- 3d Cell’s messenger materialRNA
- 4d Istanbul nativeTURK
- 5d ConcealHIDE
- 6d Lacking a key, in musicATONAL
- 7d Crazy Horse’s peopleSIOUX
- 8d Adjustable skirt featureHEM
- 9d Port-au-Prince’s countryHAITI
- 10d Get thereARRIVE
- 11d Looked lasciviouslyLEERED
- 12d CommandsORDERS
- 15d Police officer who monitors an assigned areaPATROLMAN
- 17d Label as G or R, sayRATE
- 20d Spicy marinade with chili peppersADOBO
- 21d Exam for a doctor-to-beMCAT
- 22d Parks honored in the Capitol’s Statuary HallROSA
- 23d Walrus’s long toothTUSK
- 25d Composer StravinskyIGOR
- 27d Have to haveNEED
- 28d Passengers getting an illicit free rideSTOWAWAYS
- 32d Org. for Patriot gamesNFL
- 33d Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for “Fargo”EWAN
- 35d Pertaining to development in the wombFETAL
- 36d Off-key, in a wayFLAT
- 37d Like some history or hygieneORAL
- 38d City surrounding Vatican CityROME
- 39d On bended ___KNEE
- 42d Overly refinedEFFETE
- 43d “Yikes!,” to a BritBLIMEY
- 44d Reporter’s attribution atop an articleBYLINE
- 46d ReadPERUSE
- 47d Rock’s Carmen or ClaptonERIC
- 49d Earthy deposits by a riverSILTS
- 50d Steak similar to a porterhouseTBONE
- 54d StylishCHIC
- 55d MarginEDGE
- 57d “___ better to have loved and lost …”TIS
- 58d PasséOLD
- 59d MisfortuneWOE
- 60d Agree silentlyNOD