NYT Crossword Today's Hints and Answer
Jan 27, 2026
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NYT Crossword Answers for 26 January 2026
Across
1. Pie nut
PECAN
6. Boring task
SLOG
10. "I want to be in the loop on this email"
CCME
14. Love, Italian-style
AMORE
15. Walking stick
CANE
16. Sounds of inspiration
AHAS
17. Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star]
ROSEGARDEN
19. Get gooey, maybe
MELT
20. Backstreets
ALLEYS
21. Spooky
EERIE
22. ___ one and only
THE
25. Itinerary calculation, in brief
ETA
26. Connections
INS
28. Purple yam used to flavor desserts
UBE
29. Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]
BESTCOMEDYALBUM
33. Truffle pigs' assets
SNOUTS
34. Connection between topics
SEGUE
35. "Over here!"
PSST
36. ___ Vicious
SID
37. Increase
GOUP
41. "Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film)
THING
44. Food court pizza chain
SBARRO
46. North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]
DAVIDSONCOLLEGE
50. Allhallows ___
EVE
51. Cut, as grass
MOW
52. Beverage that may come in a pint
ALE
53. Cry between "Ready" and "Go!"
SET
54. Parisian thanks
MERCI
56. Waiter or waitress
SERVER
59. "Do ___ others …"
UNTO
60. Athletic trifectas … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across
THREEPEATS
64. Wishes undone
RUES
65. Fireplace fuel
LOGS
66. Jadedness
ENNUI
67. Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say
SEXT
68. Ones appointed by corp. boards
CEOS
69. No-nos
DONTS
Down
1. Number on a golf card
PAR
2. Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure
EMO
3. Modern lead-in to play
COS
4. Space
AREA
5. Fail to take care of
NEGLECT
6. "Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g.
SCREAM
7. Noblewoman
LADY
8. Like a biased presentation
ONESIDED
9. Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha
GEN
10. Arrived
CAME
11. Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"
CHERUB
12. Beach city west of Los Angeles
MALIBU
13. Think highly of
ESTEEM
18. Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally
ALTOS
21. Jacob's brother in the Bible
ESAU
22. Baker's meas.
TBSP
23. Mothers of barnyard chicks
HENS
24. Those, in Spanish
ESOS
27. N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards
NYG
30. ___-frutti
TUTTI
31. Endorse digitally
ESIGN
32. Corporate department that handles contracts
LEGAL
36. Oversize article of winter footwear
SNOWSHOE
38. Metals that miners mine
ORES
39. Egg (on)
URGE
40. T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden
POET
42. Kind of port in A/V
HDMI
43. Prefix with -metric or -morphic
ISO
44. Puzzle out
SOLVE
45. Censored, as on an audiotape
BLEEPED
46. Takes exception
DEMURS
47. Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan
AVENUE
48. Point of a polygon
VERTEX
49. Stroke lovingly
CARESS
55. "It'll ___ ya"
COST
57. Thus
ERGO
58. Nevada city near Lake Tahoe
RENO
60. Extra attention, in brief
TLC
61. Journalist Curry
ANN
62. Famed Egyptian king, for short
TUT
63. Bro's sibling
SIS
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