NYT Crossword January 26, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Pie nut 5 6A Boring task 4 10A "I want to be in the loop on this email" 4 14A Love, Italian-style 5 15A Walking stick 4 16A Sounds of inspiration 4 17A Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star] 10 19A Get gooey, maybe 4 20A Backstreets 6 21A Spooky 5 22A ___ one and only 3 25A Itinerary calculation, in brief 3 26A Connections 3 28A Purple yam used to flavor desserts 3 29A Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician] 15 33A Truffle pigs' assets 6 34A Connection between topics 5 35A "Over here!" 4 36A ___ Vicious 3 37A Increase 4 41A "Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film) 5 44A Food court pizza chain 6 46A North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member] 15 50A Allhallows ___ 3 51A Cut, as grass 3 52A Beverage that may come in a pint 3 53A Cry between "Ready" and "Go!" 3 54A Parisian thanks 5 56A Waiter or waitress 6 59A "Do ___ others …" 4 60A Athletic trifectas … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across 10 64A Wishes undone 4 65A Fireplace fuel 4 66A Jadedness 5 67A Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say 4 68A Ones appointed by corp. boards 4 69A No-nos 5

Down

1D Number on a golf card 3 2D Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure 3 3D Modern lead-in to play 3 4D Space 4 5D Fail to take care of 7 6D "Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g. 6 7D Noblewoman 4 8D Like a biased presentation 8 9D Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha 3 10D Arrived 4 11D Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" 6 12D Beach city west of Los Angeles 6 13D Think highly of 6 18D Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally 5 21D Jacob's brother in the Bible 4 22D Baker's meas. 4 23D Mothers of barnyard chicks 4 24D Those, in Spanish 4 27D N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards 3 30D ___-frutti 5 31D Endorse digitally 5 32D Corporate department that handles contracts 5 36D Oversize article of winter footwear 8 38D Metals that miners mine 4 39D Egg (on) 4 40D T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden 4 42D Kind of port in A/V 4 43D Prefix with -metric or -morphic 3 44D Puzzle out 5 45D Censored, as on an audiotape 7 46D Takes exception 6 47D Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan 6 48D Point of a polygon 6 49D Stroke lovingly 6 55D "It'll ___ ya" 4 57D Thus 4 58D Nevada city near Lake Tahoe 4 60D Extra attention, in brief 3 61D Journalist Curry 3 62D Famed Egyptian king, for short 3 63D Bro's sibling 3