NYT Crossword January 5, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Value 5 6A Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii 3 9A Angel's headgear 4 13A Listlessness 5 14A Score like 5-5 or 10-10 3 15A Fruit-peeling gadget 5 16A Meeting spot for a company's overseers 9 18A Ventilated 5 19A Actor Reeves who plays John Wick 5 20A Clothing 6 21A Wrestler-turned-actor with a mohawk 3 24A 1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie 10 26A Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice 7 29A Gloppy gunk 3 30A Op-___ (newspaper pieces) 3 31A Advantageous quality 5 32A Aristocrat 5 34A Enjoy a vacation day, say 15 40A Reside 5 41A Burr who dueled with Hamilton 5 42A Wane 3 45A One ___ time 3 46A Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens 7 48A Bug killer that goes "smack!" 10 51A Losing general at Appomattox 3 52A Relating to a son or daughter 6 53A Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl" 5 56A Poet Dickinson 5 57A Gridiron success … or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across 9 61A Backpackers' shelters 5 62A Write-___ (unlikely election winners) 3 63A Home with a dome 5 64A Lumps of coal, for a snowman 4 65A Understand 3 66A Relinquished 5

Down

1D Spider's creation 3 2D Peace promoter Yoko 3 3D Cell's messenger material 3 4D Istanbul native 4 5D Conceal 4 6D Lacking a key, in music 6 7D Crazy Horse's people 5 8D Adjustable skirt feature 3 9D Port-au-Prince's country 5 10D Get there 6 11D Looked lasciviously 6 12D Commands 6 15D Police officer who monitors an assigned area 9 17D Label as G or R, say 4 20D Spicy marinade with chili peppers 5 21D Exam for a doctor-to-be 4 22D Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall 4 23D Walrus's long tooth 4 25D Composer Stravinsky 4 27D Have to have 4 28D Passengers getting an illicit free ride 9 32D Org. with Patriot games 3 33D Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo" 4 35D Pertaining to development in the womb 5 36D Opposite of hilly 4 37D Like some history or hygiene 4 38D City surrounding Vatican City 4 39D On bended ___ 4 42D Overly refined 6 43D "Yikes!," to a Brit 6 44D Reporter's attribution atop an article 6 46D Read 6 47D Rock's Carmen or Clapton 4 49D Earthy deposits by a river 5 50D Steak similar to a porterhouse 5 54D Stylish 4 55D Margin 4 57D "___ better to have loved and lost ..." 3 58D Passé 3 59D Misfortune 3 60D Silent approval 3