Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, January 2, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, January 2, 2026 features 67 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "INTERNETFAMOUS".
Total Clues
67
Longest
INTERNETFAMOUS
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
PAM
Featured Clue
"Extremely well-liked?"
14 Letters
INTERNETFAMOUS
ALLComplete Solution List
Spray in the kitchen
3PAM
The Cowboys of the N.C.A.A.
3OSU
Up to
5UNTIL
Windfalls
5BOONS
Org. for The Rock and Brock Lesnar
3WWE
May day celebrant
3MOM
Dance move also known as a backslide
8MOONWALK
Havanese greeting
3ARF
Part of an underground network
4ROOT
Emotional manipulation tactic
9GUILTTRIP
Exchanges blows?
9AIRKISSES
Attraction on the western side of Carson Range
5TAHOE
They rate up to 350,000 on the Scoville scale
9HABANEROS
Kind of sequence that that proceeds 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
9FIBONACCI
"Just tell me when it's over"
9ICANTLOOK
Reluctantly stoop
5DEIGN
Keep coming up
5RECUR
Tolstoy book whose title asks a question
9WHATISART
One might lead to pay back
9TAXRETURN
Fig. that cannot start with 9
3SSN
[So adorable!]
3AWW
Cumbrous
6CLUNKY
"A-a-a-and ___!" (improv show ender)
5SCENE
Default outcomes, perhaps
5REPOS
Eggless bread spread
9VEGENAISE
Not many
4AFEW
H.S. class for tough life lessons?
5APBIO
Org. with the Rule of Law Initiative
3ABA
Tunnel-making machine
5BORER
Word from the Lakota for "they dwell"
5TEPEE
Hooting and hollering
5AROAR
One-to-one relationship
8MONOGAMY
High-carb snack
9ENERGYBAR
Make some introductions, say
5EMCEE
Cylindrical oven
7TANDOOR
Skims, as soup stock
6DEFATS
Extremely well-liked?
14INTERNETFAMOUS
Oof!
4DAMN
Duration
5WHILE
Meaty meal
5FEAST
Modern security threat
4HACK
Seems less impressive, so to speak
5PALES
Prepare to ship, say
5BOXUP
I like the sound of that!
14NOWWERETALKING
Pithy put-downs
4TSKS
Delivery means to a gas station
10FUELTANKER
Personal opinion
10SELFESTEEM
German stock market index
3DAX
Main ingredient in an aviation cocktail
3GIN
Count in the Blues Hall of Fame
5BASIE
Kind of acid
5AMINO
Lender's security
4LIEN
Capitulate
4CAVE
Server's obstacle
3NET
Big purveyor of health supplements
3GNC
Booking, for short
3RES
___ Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code"
3DAN
Word on the street is ...
7THEYSAY
Try hard
5POSER
On the ___ (frequently, informally)
3REG
Table outside
4MESA
Gender-neutral term in a family
3SIB
Night of lawlessness in a long-running horror franchise, with "the"
5PURGE
"Let's go, sleepyhead!"
9UPANDATEM
Stem component
5XYLEM
Bird whose eggs are sometimes a canvas for Aboriginal art
3EMU
Capotes are flapped at them
5TOROS