NYT Crossword January 8, 2026 Answers

Across

1A ___ canto 3 4A Lessons that might be spelled out for you? 4 8A Photographer Diane 5 13A Wide-open Q&A 3 14A Coffee option 4 15A Snatching sound, in the comics 5 16A Nonverbal "well done" 8 18A Well-known scheme designer 5 19A One of the two Boolean values, in programming 4 20A Disney princess whose name is one letter off from a common princess accessory 5 22A Gimlet base 3 23A Dundee dissent 3 25A Cars with retractable roofs 8 27A What Neapolitan ice cream is divided into 6 30A Compete (for) 3 31A Bit in a breakfast bowl 3 32A Benefactor with a limited number of grants? 5 35A Symbol of the "Black is beautiful" movement 4 39A College concern seen in 16-, 25-, 49- and 63-Across? 14 42A Cathedral recess 4 43A Full of zing 5 44A Tallahassee sch. 3 45A Get rid of 3 47A Tea traders? 6 49A Accidentally burn, perhaps 8 54A Influential power 3 55A Feel under the weather 3 56A It's a start! 5 58A ___-free 4 61A Brand in the feminine care aisle 5 63A Results of wearing some uncomfortable shoes 8 65A Mexican street food typically served with cheese, chili and lime 5 66A Hit TV series set at the fictional William McKinley High School 4 67A Cpl. or sgt. 3 68A Grannies 5 69A Fictional lover of Rochester 4 70A Many Ph.D.s-to-be, for short 3

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1D Bangkok currency 4 2D Doha dignitary 4 3D Heineken subsidiary whose name means "small bodies of water" 9 4D Go on, in dialogue 3 5D One who eats crisps and uses a loo 4 6D Kind of duty 5 7D Stab, in a way 5 8D Spanish exclamation akin to "Oh, baby!" 6 9D Small hopper in the Hundred Acre Wood 3 10D "Spot on!" 5 11D Open, as a fanny pack 5 12D Scrapes 5 17D Get wind of 4 21D Knickknack 7 24D "We stand today on the ___ of a new frontier": John F. Kennedy, 7/15/1960 4 26D Nursing spot 4 27D Attire for a fraternity party, maybe 4 28D Instrument originating in ancient Sumer 4 29D Jump at, as an opportunity 7 33D Opposite of SSW 3 34D Maybes 3 36D "In da Club" rapper 9 37D Parks in history 4 38D Albatross, so to speak 4 40D Beloved 4 41D Thumbs-up votes 4 46D PlayStation alternatives 6 48D So-called "father of the American cartoon" 4 49D Like the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey 5 50D It takes a bow in a concert hall 5 51D Sir ___ Hercules John 5 52D Indigenous people at the center of 2023's "Killers of the Flower Moon" 5 53D ___ green 5 57D Layer 4 59D Sea creature that can weigh 400 pounds at birth 4 60D Possessive of a Chinese menu? 4 62D Zeta follower 3 64D Go on dates with 3