NYT Crossword January 22, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Purchase of ice cream or cream ale 4 5A Cognac label letters 4 9A Escapade 5 14A Goddess depicted with cow's horns 4 15A "Hey, look who's here!" 4 16A Film without much wardrobe, informally 5 17A Watch sound 4 18A Happens 10 20A Left in 7 22A Ingredient in a zombie 3 23A Late ___ 3 24A Anxious 5 25A Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short 4 26A Org. that watches television 3 27A Tackling the task at hand 14 31A Dump 3 32A Unceasingly 5 33A Hotel room coolers, for short 3 34A Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel" 4 35A Cut (in) 4 38A Flabbergasted feeling 3 40A Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests 5 42A Low 3 45A Result of missing the boat 14 49A Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly 3 50A Sweeping 4 51A Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic" 5 52A Furious feeling 3 53A Rescue squad pro 3 54A Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles 7 56A Striking through 10 59A "___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!" 4 60A Standard 5 61A Lead-in to -drome 4 62A Oversupply 4 63A Full of energy 5 64A ___ Mix 4 65A Catch a glimpse of 4

Down

1D Tools requiring two people 7 2D "Am I wrong about that?" 7 3D "Please, I know better than that" 7 4D "You know better than that" 6 5D Sotto ___ 4 6D Sporting flats, say 4 7D Omega, in physics 3 8D Approximately 84% of American women have at least one 10 9D Early ancestor 6 10D (The) OK 3 11D With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go … as seen in this puzzle's theme 7 12D Bees, but not birds 7 13D Trig ratio 5 19D Kick butt, so to speak 4 21D Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say 5 25D Buffet table item 3 28D ___ de plume 3 29D Increase one's intensity 10 30D "Hard pass" 3 34D Mal de ___ 3 36D Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama" 3 37D Legal setting 5 38D 37-Down order 7 39D Roused 7 41D Turn to mush, maybe 3 42D See 11-Down 7 43D Loved every second 7 44D The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g. 7 46D Early pop music's ___ Brothers 6 47D Honorific title 4 48D Pestering type 6 49D Minor snafu 5 54D Mark's successor 4 55D Put away 4 57D Space between here and there 3 58D French word between two surnames 3