Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, January 5, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, January 5, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "TAKEOFFFROMWORK".
Total Clues
76
Longest
TAKEOFFFROMWORK
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
EDS
Featured Clue
"Enjoy a vacation day, say"
15 Letters
TAKEOFFFROMWORK
ALLComplete Solution List
Poet Dickinson
5EMILY
Aristocrat
5NOBLE
Listlessness
5ENNUI
Lumps of coal, for a snowman
4EYES
Reside
5DWELL
Home with a dome
5IGLOO
Value
5WORTH
Overhead light?
4HALO
Relinquished
5CEDED
Ventilated
5AIRED
Clothing
6ATTIRE
Op-___ (newspaper pieces)
3EDS
Get there
6ARRIVE
Wane
3EBB
Advantageous quality
5ASSET
Understand?
3SEE
Istanbul native
4TURK
Port-au-Prince's country
5HAITI
Spider's creation
3WEB
Looked lasciviously
6LEERED
Commands
6ORDERS
One __ time
3ATA
Lacking a key, in music
6ATONAL
Conceal
4HIDE
Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii
3ASH
Situation that precedes overtime
3TIE
Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice
7COUNSEL
Bug killer that goes "smack!"
10FLYSWATTER
Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens
7PENNAME
1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie
10TAXIDRIVER
Backpackers' shelters
5TENTS
Fruit-peeling gadget
5PARER
Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl"
5BRICE
Gloppy gunk
3GOO
Cell's messenger material
3RNA
Peace promoter Yoko
3ONO
Adjustable skirt feature
3HEM
Crazy Horse's people
5SIOUX
Wrestler-turned-actor with a trademark do
3MRT
Actor Reeves who plays John Wick
5keanu
Burr who dueled with Hamilton
5AARON
Label as G or R, say
4RATE
Relating to a son or daughter
6FILIAL
Spicy marinade with chili peppers
5ADOBO
Meeting spot for a company's overseers
9BOARDROOM
Police officer who monitors an assigned area
9PATROLMAN
Enjoy a vacation day, say
15TAKEOFFFROMWORK
Losing general at Appomattox
3LEE
Write-___ (unlikely election winners)
3INS
On bended ___.
4KNEE
City surrounding Vatican City
4ROME
Read
6PERUSE
Have to have
4NEED
Composer Stravinsky
4IGOR
Off-key, in a way
4FLAT
Stylish
4CHIC
Earthy deposits by a river
5SILTS
Like some history or hygiene
4ORAL
Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo"
4EWAN
Margin
4EDGE
Org. for Patriot games
3NFL
Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall
4ROSA
Pertaining to development in the womb
5FETAL
Reporter's attribution atop an article
6BYLINE
___ better to have loved and lost ...
3TIS
Agree silently
3NOD
Misfortune
3WOE
Pass
3OLD
Steak similar to a porterhouse
5TBONE
Exam for a doctor-to-be
4MCAT
Passengers getting an illicit free ride
9STOWAWAYS
Rock's Carmen or Clapton
4ERIC
Overly refined
6EFFETE
"Yikes!," to a Brit
6BLIMEY
Walrus's long tooth
4TUSK
Gridiron success ... or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across
9TOUCHDOWN