Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, January 26, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, January 26, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "BESTCOMEDYALBUM".
Total Clues
78
Longest
BESTCOMEDYALBUM
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
THE
Featured Clue
"Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]"
15 Letters
BESTCOMEDYALBUM
ALLComplete Solution List
Pie nut
5PECAN
Boring task
4SLOG
"I want to be in the loop on this email"
4CCME
Love, Italian style
5AMORE
Walking stick
4CANE
Sounds of inspiration
4AHAS
Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star]
10ROSEGARDEN
Get gooey, maybe
4MELT
Backstreets
6ALLEYS
Spooky
5EERIE
One and only
3THE
Itinerary calculation, in brief
3ETA
Connections
3INS
Purple yam used to flavor desserts
3UBE
Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]
15BESTCOMEDYALBUM
Truffle pigs' assets
6SNOUTS
Connection between topics
5SEGUE
Over here!
4PSST
Vicious
3SID
Increase
4GOUP
"Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film)
5THING
Food court pizza chain
6SBARRO
North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]
15DAVIDSONCOLLEGE
Allhallows ___
3EVE
Cut, as grass
3MOW
Beverage that may come in a pint
3ALE
Cry between "ready" and "go!"
3SET
Parisian thanks
5MERCI
Waiter or waitress
6SERVER
Do __ others ...
4UNTO
Athletic trifectas ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across
10THREEPEATS
Wishes undone
4RUES
Fireplace fuel
4LOGS
Jadedness
5ENNUI
Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say
4SEXT
Ones appointed by corp. boards
4CEOS
No-no's
5DONTS
Number on a golf card
3PAR
Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure
3EMO
Modern lead-in to play
3COS
Space
4AREA
Fail to take care of
7NEGLECT
"Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g.
6SCREAM
Noblewoman
4LADY
Like a biased presentation
8ONESIDED
Lead-in to "X," "Y," "Z" or "Alpha"
3GEN
Arrived
4CAME
Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"
6CHERUB
Beach city west of Los Angeles
6MALIBU
Think highly of
6ESTEEM
Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally
5ALTOS
Jacob's brother, in the Bible
4ESAU
Baker's meas.
4TBSP
Mothers of barnyard chicks
4HENS
Those, in Spanish
4ESOS
N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards
3NYG
__-frutti
5TUTTI
Endorse digitally
5ESIGN
Corporate department that handles contracts
5LEGAL
Oversize article of winter footwear
8SNOWSHOE
Metals that miners mine
4ORES
Egg on
4URGE
T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden
4POET
Kind of port in A/V
4HDMI
Prefix with -metric or -morphic
3ISO
Puzzle (out)
5SOLVE
Censored, as on an audiotape
7BLEEPED
Takes exception
6DEMURS
Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan
6AVENUE
Point of a polygon
6VERTEX
Stroke lovingly
6CARESS
"It'll ___ ya"
4COST
Thus
4ERGO
Nevada city near Lake Tahoe
4RENO
Extra attention, in brief
3TLC
Journalist Curry
3ANN
Famed Egyptian king, for short
3TUT
Bro's sibling
3SIS