NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 22, 2026

Complete answer list for the January 22, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 38

  1. 1Purchase of ice cream or cream ale ↗PINT
  2. 5Cognac label letters ↗VSOP
  3. 9Escapade ↗ANTIC
  4. 14Goddess depicted with cow's horns ↗ISIS
  5. 15"Hey, look who's here!" ↗OHHI
  6. 16Film without much wardrobe, informally ↗PORNO
  7. 17Watch sound ↗TICK
  8. 18Happens ↗COMEREDASS
  9. 20Left in ↗STETTED
  10. 22Ingredient in a zombie ↗RUM
  11. 23Late ___ ↗FEE
  12. 24Anxious ↗ANTSY
  13. 25Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short ↗UCLA
  14. 26Org. that watches television ↗FCC
  15. 27Tackling the task at hand ↗WORKINGREENNIT
  16. 31Dump ↗STY
  17. 32Unceasingly ↗NOEND
  18. 33Hotel room coolers, for short ↗ACS
  19. 34Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel" ↗MGMT
  20. 35Cut (in) ↗ETCH
  21. 38Flabbergasted feeling ↗AWE
  22. 40Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests ↗URANO
  23. 42Low ↗SAD
  24. 45Result of missing the boat ↗LOREDPORTUNITY
  25. 49Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly ↗MLK
  26. 50Sweeping ↗VAST
  27. 51Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic" ↗ROGEN
  28. 52Furious feeling ↗IRE
  29. 53Rescue squad pro ↗EMT
  30. 54Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles ↗ESTONIA
  31. 56Striking through ↗XINGREENUT
  32. 59"___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!" ↗DATS
  33. 60Standard ↗USUAL
  34. 61Lead-in to -drome ↗AERO
  35. 62Oversupply ↗GLUT
  36. 63Full of energy ↗PEPPY
  37. 64___ Mix ↗MEOW
  38. 65Catch a glimpse of ↗ESPY

Down 36

  1. 1Tools requiring two people ↗PITSAWS
  2. 2"Am I wrong about that?" ↗ISITNOT
  3. 3"Please, I know better than that" ↗NICETRY
  4. 4"You know better than that" ↗TSKTSK
  5. 5Sotto ___ ↗VOCE
  6. 6Sporting flats, say ↗SHOD
  7. 7Omega, in physics ↗OHM
  8. 8Approximately 84% of American women have at least one ↗PIERCEDEAR
  9. 9Early ancestor ↗APEMAN
  10. 10(The) OK ↗NOD
  11. 11With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go … as seen in this puzzle's theme ↗TRAFFIC
  12. 12Bees, but not birds ↗INSECTS
  13. 13Trig ratio ↗COSEC
  14. 19Kick butt, so to speak ↗RULE
  15. 21Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say ↗TYING
  16. 25Buffet table item ↗URN
  17. 28___ de plume ↗NOM
  18. 29Increase one's intensity ↗GETUPSTEAM
  19. 30"Hard pass" ↗NAH
  20. 34Mal de ___ ↗MER
  21. 36Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama" ↗TNT
  22. 37Legal setting ↗COURT
  23. 3837-Down order ↗ALLRISE
  24. 39Roused ↗WOKENUP
  25. 41Turn to mush, maybe ↗ROT
  26. 42See 11-Down ↗SIGNALS
  27. 43Loved every second ↗ATEITUP
  28. 44The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g. ↗DYNASTY
  29. 46Early pop music's ___ Brothers ↗EVERLY
  30. 47Honorific title ↗DAME
  31. 48Pestering type ↗NOODGE
  32. 49Minor snafu ↗MIXUP
  33. 54Mark's successor ↗EURO
  34. 55Put away ↗STOW
  35. 57Space between here and there ↗GAP
  36. 58French word between two surnames ↗NEE