Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, January 8, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, January 8, 2026 features 75 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.7 letters. The longest answer is "GRADEINFLATION".
Total Clues
75
Longest
GRADEINFLATION
Avg Length
4.7
Shortest
BEL
Featured Clue
"College concern seen in 16-, 25-, 49- and 63-Across?"
14 Letters
GRADEINFLATION
ALLComplete Solution List
___ canto
3BEL
Lessons that might be spelled out for you?
4ABCS
Photographer Diane
5ARBUS
Wide-open Q&A
3AMA
Coffee option
4DRIP
Snatching sound, in the comics
5YOINK
<i>Nonverbal "well done"</i>
8HIGHDIVE
Well-known scheme designer
5PONZI
One of the two Boolean values, in programming
4TRUE
Disney princess whose name is one letter off from a common princess accessory
5TIANA
Gimlet base
3GIN
Dundee dissent
3NAE
<i>Cars with retractable roofs</i>
8CROPTOPS
What Neapolitan ice cream is divided into
6THIRDS
Compete (for)
3VIE
Bit in a breakfast bowl
3OAT
Benefactor with a limited number of grants?
5GENIE
Symbol of the "Black is beautiful" movement
4AFRO
College concern seen in 16-, 25-, 49- and 63-Across?
14GRADEINFLATION
Cathedral recess
4APSE
Full of zing
5ZESTY
Tallahassee sch.
3FSU
Get rid of
3AXE
Tea traders?
6YENTAS
<i>Accidentally burn, perhaps</i>
8OVERBOOK
Influential power
3SAY
Feel under the weather
3AIL
It's a start
5ONSET
Free
4SCOT
Brand in the feminine care aisle
5KOTEX
<i>Results of wearing some uncomfortable shoes</i>
8ALISTERS
Mexican street food typically served with cheese, chili and lime
5ELOTE
Hit TV series set at the fictional William McKinley High School
4GLEE
Cpl. or Sgt.
3NCO
Grannies
5NANAS
Fictional lover of Rochester
4EYRE
Many Ph.D.s-to-be, for short
3TAS
Bangkok currency
4BAHT
Doha dignitary
4EMIR
Heineken subsidiary whose name means "small bodies of water"
9LAGUNITAS
Go on, in dialogue
3ADD
One who eats crisps and uses a loo
4BRIT
Kind of duty
5CIVIC
Stab, in a way
5SPEAR
Spanish exclamation akin to "Oh, baby!"
6AYPAPI
Small hopper in the Hundred Acre Wood
3ROO
Spot-on
5BINGO
Open, as a fanny pack
5UNZIP
Scrapes
5SKINS
Get wind of
4HEAR
Knickknack
7NOVELTY
"We stand today on the ___ of a new frontier": John F. Kennedy, 7/15/1960
4EDGE
Nursing spot
4TEAT
Attire for a fraternity party, maybe
4TOGA
Instrument originating in ancient Sumer
4HARP
Jump at, as an opportunity
7SEIZEON
Opposite of SSW
3NNE
Maybes
3IFS
"In da Club" rapper
9FIFTYCENT
Parks in history
4ROSA
Albatross, so to speak
4ONUS
Beloved
4DEAR
Thumbs-up votes
4AYES
PlayStation alternatives
6XBOXES
So-called "father of the American cartoon"
4NAST
Like the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey
5OAKEN
It takes a bow in a concert hall
5VIOLA
Sir ___ Hercules John
5ELTON
Indigenous people at the center of 2023's "Killers of the Flower Moon"
5OSAGE
Green
5KELLY
Layer
4TIER
Sea creature that can weigh 400 pounds at birth
4ORCA
Possessive of a Chinese menu?
4TSOS
Zeta follower
3ETA
Go on dates with
3SEE