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NYT Crossword — January 26, 2026

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

10"I want to be in the loop on this email"

14Love, Italian-style

15Walking stick

16Sounds of inspiration

17Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star]

19Get gooey, maybe

22___ one and only

25Itinerary calculation, in brief

28Purple yam used to flavor desserts

29Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]

33Truffle pigs' assets

34Connection between topics

41"Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film)

44Food court pizza chain

46North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]

50Allhallows ___

51Cut, as grass

52Beverage that may come in a pint

53Cry between "Ready" and "Go!"

54Parisian thanks

56Waiter or waitress

59"Do ___ others …"

60Athletic trifectas … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across

64Wishes undone

65Fireplace fuel

67Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say

68Ones appointed by corp. boards

Down

41 clues

1Number on a golf card

2Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure

3Modern lead-in to play

5Fail to take care of

6"Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g.

8Like a biased presentation

9Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha

11Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"

12Beach city west of Los Angeles

13Think highly of

18Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally

21Jacob's brother in the Bible

22Baker's meas.

23Mothers of barnyard chicks

24Those, in Spanish

27N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards

31Endorse digitally

32Corporate department that handles contracts

36Oversize article of winter footwear

38Metals that miners mine

40T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden

42Kind of port in A/V

43Prefix with -metric or -morphic

45Censored, as on an audiotape

46Takes exception

47Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan

48Point of a polygon

49Stroke lovingly

55"It'll ___ ya"

58Nevada city near Lake Tahoe

60Extra attention, in brief

61Journalist Curry

62Famed Egyptian king, for short

63Bro's sibling

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Stats & info

Monday, Jan 26, 2026

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedJan 26, 2026

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorErica Hsiung Wojcik

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

29AGrammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]15 ltrs 46ANorth Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]15 ltrs 17AClassic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star]10 ltrs 60AAthletic trifectas … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across10 ltrs 8DLike a biased presentation8 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.