Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, January 19, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, January 19, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "TINYDANCER".
Total Clues
78
Longest
TINYDANCER
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
ALI
Featured Clue
"1972 song by Elton John"
10 Letters
TINYDANCER
ALLComplete Solution List
Package under a Christmas tree
4GIFT
Old-fashioned butter maker
5CHURN
Branded cotton swab
4QTIP
Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan __
4OMAR
In on, as a trend
5HIPTO
Big coffee containers
4URNS
1972 song by Elton John
10TINYDANCER
Luxury auto whose logo is four overlapping rings
4AUDI
In progress
7ONGOING
:), ;), :D and others
7SMILEYS
Formal "you," in Spanish
5USTED
Comedian Wong
3ALI
Projects, as a shadow
5CASTS
1985 song by John Cougar Mellencamp
9SMALLTOWN
Comes to light
6ARISES
X minus III, in old Rome
3VII
Cosmonaut Gagarin
4YURI
Held the reins
3LED
Spot for a massage
3SPA
R&B singer whose album "SOS" spent 100+ weeks in the Billboard top 10
3SZA
Element used in bronze
3TIN
Sporting blade
4EPEE
Draft pick
3ALE
Firstborn
6ELDEST
1987 song by Billy Joel and Ray Charles
9BABYGRAND
Midsection measurement
5GIRTH
Apt rhyme for "shriek"
3EEK
Martial arts studios
5DOJOS
Disheveled
7UNKEMPT
Caribbean island with a liqueur named for it
7CURACAO
Gently persuade
4COAX
Capital of Arkansas ... or a description of 17-, 29- and 50-Across?
10LITTLEROCK
In ___ land (daydreaming)
4LALA
I WISH I COULD ___ THAT
5UNSEE
A second helping, say
4MORE
Excuse me?
4AHEM
Things shifted on a bicycle or in a car
5GEARS
Winter coaster
4SLED
___ Jail (space on a Monopoly board)
4GOTO
Sign me up!
4IMIN
Vampire's tooth
4FANG
Auditions
7TRYOUTS
U.S.A.! U.S.A.!, e.g.
5CHANT
Movable joints on a door
6HINGES
___ code (what most product packages have)
3UPC
Google Maps options: Abbr.
4RTES
Bring into the mainstream
9NORMALIZE
Counterpart of quantity
7QUALITY
Factual
4TRUE
Where the N.F.L.'s Colts play, informally
4INDY
Letters before omegas
4PSIS
Insults
6DISSES
Springfield is its capital: Abbr.
3ILL
Org. with notoriously long lines
3DMV
Biblical spy for Moses
5CALEB
South American flatbread
5AREPA
Lesser-played part of a 45
5SIDEB
ChatGPT and Google Gemini, for two
3AIS
Word before space or Mongolia
5OUTER
Spot to find a pulse
5WRIST
Final inning, typically
5NINTH
Device for starting an engine
9SPARKPLUG
In the style of
3ALA
Former vice president who won a Nobel Peace Prize
6ALGORE
Test taken at the 24-Down
7EYEEXAM
Finale
3END
Wins over with charm
7DISARMS
Jewel
3GEM
Pete who directed "Up," "Inside Out" and "Soul"
6DOCTER
Novelist Verne.
5JULES
The N.C.A.A.'s Bruins
4UCLA
Biblical ark builder
4NOAH
Dark leafy green
4KALE
Fork prong
4TINE
Chilly
4COOL
Surveyor's measure
4ACRE
Gave a thumbs-up
4OKED
Airport screening grp.
3TSA