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NYT Crossword — January 22, 2026

Thursday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

38 clues

1Purchase of ice cream or cream ale

5Cognac label letters

14Goddess depicted with cow's horns

15"Hey, look who's here!"

16Film without much wardrobe, informally

22Ingredient in a zombie

25Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short

26Org. that watches television

27Tackling the task at hand

33Hotel room coolers, for short

34Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel"

38Flabbergasted feeling

40Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests

45Result of missing the boat

49Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly

51Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic"

52Furious feeling

53Rescue squad pro

54Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles

56Striking through

59"___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!"

61Lead-in to -drome

63Full of energy

65Catch a glimpse of

Down

36 clues

1Tools requiring two people

2"Am I wrong about that?"

3"Please, I know better than that"

4"You know better than that"

6Sporting flats, say

7Omega, in physics

8Approximately 84% of American women have at least one

9Early ancestor

11With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go … as seen in this puzzle's theme

12Bees, but not birds

19Kick butt, so to speak

21Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say

25Buffet table item

29Increase one's intensity

36Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama"

37Legal setting

3837-Down order

41Turn to mush, maybe

43Loved every second

44The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g.

46Early pop music's ___ Brothers

47Honorific title

48Pestering type

54Mark's successor

57Space between here and there

58French word between two surnames

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Stats & info

Thursday, Jan 22, 2026

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

37/188

Black / letter cells

5.1

Avg entry length

14 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 22, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorJoe DiPietro

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split38 across · 36 down

Longest entries

27ATackling the task at hand14 ltrs 45AResult of missing the boat14 ltrs 18AHappens10 ltrs 56AStriking through10 ltrs 8DApproximately 84% of American women have at least one10 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 37 black squares and averages 5.1 letters per entry.