Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Friday, January 23, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Friday, January 23, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "THISONESONME".
Total Clues
70
Longest
THISONESONME
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
DRE
Featured Clue
"I'll take the blame"
12 Letters
THISONESONME
ALLComplete Solution List
Barely enough
5SCANT
What some may be dyeing to conceal?
4GRAY
Environmental concern
4SMOG
Don't be absurd!
10OHPUHLEASE
___ Mountain (ski area in Killington, Vt.)
4PICO
She's out there!
10LESBIANBAR
Many a choirgirl
4ALTO
Black-ish patriarch
3DRE
Dulcet
5SWEET
Fiddle with feathers, say
5PREEN
Backstreet __
4BOYS
Like kyawthuite, among gems
6RAREST
Designer Geoffrey
5BEENE
A list
6SELECT
Like quartzite vis-à-vis quartz
6HARDER
They really click as a pair
8TAPSHOES
Masters of manipulation
5USERS
Commercial preceder of Geo
3NAT
Capital near the Red Sea
5SANAA
Micromobility option
8ESCOOTER
On the level
6HONEST
Mouth organ
6TONGUE
Internal turmoil
5ANGST
Say "I do," say
6COMMIT
One may be carried in a concert hall
4TUNE
Recent recruit
5HIREE
First name on the Supreme Court
5ELENA
Zilch
3ZIP
Cushy
4EASY
It is "making the complicated simple, awesomely simple," per Charles Mingus
10CREATIVITY
Out of joint
4FREE
Text insert for a flash-forward film scene
10YEARSLATER
Ink
4TATS
Apt rhyme for "pads"
4ADDS
Guck
5SLIME
Completely convinced
4SOLD
French letter opener
4CHER
Niche for a shrine
4APSE
Essence of the matter
3NUB
I'll take the blame
12THISONESONME
Some body builders?
5GENES
Broccoli __
4RABE
How to look at your hot fudge sundae
8ASATREAT
A little possessive, perhaps?
3YER
Pocket money
11SPARECHANGE
Momentous moments
10MILESTONES
Bits in a byte, e.g.
5OCTET
I'm listening ...
4GOON
One who's on the defense, perhaps
6LAWYER
Digital applications?
12PRESSONNAILS
Longing look
11BEDROOMEYES
Rigi of Switzerland, e.g.
3ALP
One setting on speakers
4BASS
Classic toy for budding engineers
10ERECTORSET
Long look
5STARE
Peach or plum
3HUE
Interest of Marco Polo, with "the"
4EAST
Settled on the bottom?
3SAT
Gelded
8NEUTERED
___ Friday's
3TGI
Hangouts
6HAUNTS
Grammy-winning R&B singer named for a Revlon fragrance
5CIARA
They make streaks on cheeks
5TEARS
Mass
4HEFT
___ tip
4LEAD
Trattoria tubes
4ZITI
Couple
4ITEM
Funeral ___
4PYRE
Texter's "ciao"
3CYA
Late actor Kilmer
3VAL