NYT Crossword January 7, 2026 Answers

Across

1A Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip" 4 5A Gets better 5 10A "Great" animals 4 14A Super-cool 4 15A Subject of 2001 bankruptcy headlines 5 16A "That's crazy!," on the internet 4 17A Wing woman? 10 19A Not right 4 20A Second-most-common surname in Korea, after Kim 3 21A Right away 4 22A Sports center 5 23A They have pH's below 7 5 25A Cover girl? 9 28A Kind of makeup you're born with? 7 30A XXX counterpart 3 31A Org. with a 3-1-1 rule 3 32A Gave a meal 3 33A W-9 fig. 3 34A San Francisco or San Antonio 4 35A Homecoming queen? 11 38A Unhealthy haze 4 40A Mathematician Terence 3 41A Musical genre that's the subject of the 2007 book "Everybody Hurts" 3 42A Game of pursuit 3 43A On behalf of 3 44A Places for pampering pups 7 48A Sister-in-law? 9 51A Witherspoon who played 48-Across 5 52A "We need to talk" 5 53A Smurf elder 4 55A Miss, e.g. 3 56A Hot stuff 4 57A Cat lady? 10 60A Uno más dos 4 61A Grads, now 5 62A Potatoes, in Indian cooking 4 63A Text sent upon arrival 4 64A Rapper ___ Elliott 5 65A Course list? 4

Down

1D Circadian dysrhythmia, less fancily 6 2D By the item 6 3D Enjoy a home-cooked meal, say 6 4D "Oh no!," in comics 3 5D Certain possessive pronoun 4 6D With all judges present 6 7D Grilled cornmeal cake 5 8D "haha" 3 9D "Black Jeopardy!" show, in brief 3 10D Nobel, for one 5 11D Bold accessory for a suit 8 12D Sincere 7 13D Back off (from) 7 18D Day for hunting 6 22D "The Bear" actress Edebiri 3 24D Clear up, as a windshield 5 26D Snoopy 4 27D Savory rice porridge 6 29D Words of concurrence 6 33D "___ 'nuff!" 3 34D Almost there 5 35D Cynophilist 8 36D Purple boba choice 4 37D Travel option that serves 46 states 6 38D Secrecy 7 39D Virus of sorts 7 43D Chain email abbr. 3 44D Biblical collection of 150 poems 6 45D Kitchen grinder 6 46D Kutcher of "That '70s Show" 6 47D "Later" 6 49D Clear, as a whiteboard 5 50D Equivalent of a 1.3 G.P.A., say 5 54D Small bouquet 4 57D Hawaiian pizza topping 3 58D Lilly of pharmaceuticals 3 59D Dr. Seuss's Sam-___ 3