Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, January 22, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, January 22, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "LOSTOPPORTUNITY".
Total Clues
74
Longest
LOSTOPPORTUNITY
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
RUM
Featured Clue
"Result of missing the boat"
15 Letters
LOSTOPPORTUNITY
ALLComplete Solution List
Purchase of ice cream or cream ale
4PINT
Cognac label letters
4VSOP
Escapade
5ANTIC
Goddess depicted with cow's horns
4ISIS
"Hey, look who's here!"
4OHHI
Film without much wardrobe, informally
5PORNO
Watch sound
4TICK
Happens
11COMESTOPASS
Left in
7STETTED
Ingredient in a zombie
3RUM
Late
3FEE
Anxious
5ANTSY
Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short
4UCLA
Org. that watches television
3FCC
Tackling the task at hand
11WORKINGONIT
Dump
3STY
Unceasingly
5NOEND
Hotel room coolers, for short
3ACS
Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel"
4MGMT
CUT IN
4ETCH
Flabbergasted feeling
3AWE
Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests
5URANO
Low
3SAD
Result of missing the boat
15LOSTOPPORTUNITY
Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly
3MLK
Sweeping
4VAST
Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic"
5ROGEN
Furious feeling
3IRE
Rescue squad pro
3EMT
Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles
7ESTONIA
Striking through
7XINGOUT
___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!
4DATS
Standard
5USUAL
Lead-in to -drome
4AERO
Oversupply
4GLUT
Full of energy
5PEPPY
Mix
4MEOW
Catch a glimpse of
4ESPY
Tools requiring two people
7PITSAWS
"Am I wrong about that?"
7ISITNOT
"Please, I know better than that"
7NICETRY
You know better than that!
6TSKTSK
Sotto ___
4VOCE
Sporting flats, say
4SHOD
Omega, in physics
3OHM
Approximately 84% of American women have at least one
10PIERCEDEAR
Early ancestor
6APEMAN
(The) OK
3NOD
With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go ... as seen in this puzzle's theme
7TRAFFIC
Bees, but not birds
7INSECTS
Trig ratio
5COSEC
Kick butt, so to speak
4RULE
Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say
5TYING
Buffet table item
3URN
___ de plume
3NOM
Increase one's intensity
10GETUPSTEAM
Hard pass!
3NAH
Mal de __
3MER
Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama"
3TNT
Legal setting
5COURT
37-Down order
7ALLRISE
Roused
7WOKENUP
Turn to mush, maybe
3ROT
See 11-Down
7SIGNALS
Loved every second
7ATEITUP
The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g.
7DYNASTY
Early pop music's ___ Brothers
6EVERLY
Honorific title
4DAME
Pestering type
6NOODGE
Minor snafu
5MIXUP
Mark's successor
4EURO
Put away
4STOW
Space between here and there
3GAP
French word between two surnames
3NEE