NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 2, 2026

Complete answer list for the January 2, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Adam Wagner and Rafael MusaEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 33

  1. 1Havanese greeting ↗ARF
  2. 4Tolstoy book whose title asks a question ↗WHATISART
  3. 13Reluctantly stoop ↗DEIGN
  4. 16They rate up to 350,000 on the Scoville scale ↗HABANEROS
  5. 17H.S. class for tough life lessons? ↗APBIO
  6. 18"Just tell me when it's over" ↗ICANTLOOK
  7. 19Dance move also known as a backslide ↗MOONWALK
  8. 21Skims, as soup stock ↗DEFATS
  9. 22Fig. that cannot start with 9 ↗SSN
  10. 23Org. for The Rock and Brock Lesnar ↗WWE
  11. 24Tunnel-making machine ↗BORER
  12. 25Not many ↗AFEW
  13. 27Windfalls ↗BOONS
  14. 28Keep coming up ↗RECUR
  15. 30One might lead to pay back ↗TAXRETURN
  16. 34Make some introductions, say ↗EMCEE
  17. 35The Cowboys of the N.C.A.A. ↗OSU
  18. 36Word from the Lakota for "they dwell" ↗TEPEE
  19. 37Emotional manipulation tactic ↗GUILTTRIP
  20. 39Meaty meal ↗FEAST
  21. 40Attraction on the western side of Carson Range ↗TAHOE
  22. 41"Oof!" ↗DAMN
  23. 42Seems less impressive, so to speak ↗PALES
  24. 43Spray in the kitchen ↗PAM
  25. 44German stock market index ↗DAX
  26. 47Cumbrous ↗CLUNKY
  27. 49One-to-one relationship ↗MONOGAMY
  28. 51Exchanges blows? ↗AIRKISSES
  29. 53Up to ↗UNTIL
  30. 54Eggless bread spread ↗VEGENAISE
  31. 55"A-a-a-and ___!" (improv show ender) ↗SCENE
  32. 56High-carb snack ↗ENERGYBAR
  33. 57May day celebrant ↗MOM

Down 35

  1. 1President who wrote "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it" ↗ADAMS
  2. 2Default outcomes, perhaps ↗REPOS
  3. 3Kind of sequence that proceeds 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... ↗FIBONACCI
  4. 4Duration ↗WHILE
  5. 5Modern security threat ↗HACK
  6. 6Org. with the Rule of Law Initiative ↗ABA
  7. 7Cylindrical oven ↗TANDOOR
  8. 8Extremely well-liked? ↗INTERNETFAMOUS
  9. 9Personal opinion? ↗SELFESTEEM
  10. 10Hooting and hollering ↗AROAR
  11. 11Part of an underground network ↗ROOT
  12. 12Pithy put-downs ↗TSKS
  13. 14Main ingredient in an aviation cocktail ↗GIN
  14. 15"I like the sound of that!" ↗NOWWERETALKING
  15. 20"So adorable!" ↗AWW
  16. 24Prepare to ship, say ↗BOXUP
  17. 26Delivery means to a gas station ↗FUELTANKER
  18. 27Count in the Blues Hall of Fame ↗BASIE
  19. 28On the ___ (frequently, informally) ↗REG
  20. 29Bird whose eggs are sometimes a canvas for Aboriginal art ↗EMU
  21. 30Capotes are flapped at them ↗TOROS
  22. 31"Let's go, sleepyhead!" ↗UPANDATEM
  23. 32Booking, for short ↗RES
  24. 33Server's obstacle ↗NET
  25. 38"Word on the street is ..." ↗THEYSAY
  26. 41___ Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code" ↗DAN
  27. 42Night of lawlessness in a long-running horror franchise, with "the" ↗PURGE
  28. 43Try-hard ↗POSER
  29. 45Kind of acid ↗AMINO
  30. 46Stem component ↗XYLEM
  31. 47Capitulate ↗CAVE
  32. 48Lender's security ↗LIEN
  33. 49Table outside ↗MESA
  34. 50Big purveyor of health supplements ↗GNC
  35. 52Gender-neutral term in a family ↗SIB