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New York Times, Monday, January 5, 2026

Author:
Lynn Lempel
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Enjoy a vacation day, say
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Lynn Lempel

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 38 Missing: {JQZ} Spans: 1 This is puzzle # 104 for Ms. Lempel. Grid flow: 23.4 Monday freshness: 38%
Jim Horne notes:

You BOARD a plane, TAXI, TAKE OFF, FLY, and (if things go well) TOUCH DOWN.

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© 2026, The New York Times1/5/26 ( No. 27,817 )
Across
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Value : WORTH
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Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii : ASH
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Overhead light? : HALO
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Listlessness : ENNUI
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Situation that precedes overtime : TIE
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Fruit-peeling gadget : PARER
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Meeting spot for a company's overseers : BOARDROOM
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Ventilated : AIRED
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Actor Reeves who plays John Wick : KEANU
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Clothing : ATTIRE
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Wrestler-turned-actor with a trademark do : MRT
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1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie : TAXIDRIVER
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Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice : COUNSEL
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Gloppy gunk : GOO
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Op-___ (newspaper pieces) : EDS
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Advantageous quality : ASSET
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Aristocrat : NOBLE
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Enjoy a vacation day, say : TAKEOFFFROMWORK
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Reside : DWELL
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Burr who dueled with Hamilton : AARON
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Wane : EBB
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One ___ time : ATA
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Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens : PENNAME
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Bug killer that goes "smack!" : FLYSWATTER
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Losing general at Appomattox : LEE
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Relating to a son or daughter : FILIAL
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Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl" : BRICE
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Poet Dickinson : EMILY
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Gridiron success ... or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across : TOUCHDOWN
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Backpackers' shelters : TENTS
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Write-___ (unlikely election winners) : INS
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Home with a dome : IGLOO
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Lumps of coal, for a snowman : EYES
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Understand : SEE
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Relinquished : CEDED
Down
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Spider's creation : WEB
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Peace promoter Yoko : ONO
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Cell's messenger material : RNA
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Istanbul native : TURK
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Conceal : HIDE
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Lacking a key, in music : ATONAL
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Crazy Horse's people : SIOUX
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Adjustable skirt feature : HEM
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Port-au-Prince's country : HAITI
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Get there : ARRIVE
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Looked lasciviously : LEERED
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Commands : ORDERS
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Police officer who monitors an assigned area : PATROLMAN
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Label as G or R, say : RATE
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Spicy marinade with chili peppers : ADOBO
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Exam for a doctor-to-be : MCAT
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Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall : ROSA
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Walrus's long tooth : TUSK
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Composer Stravinsky : IGOR
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Have to have : NEED
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Passengers getting an illicit free ride : STOWAWAYS
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Org. for Patriot games : NFL
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Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo" : EWAN
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Pertaining to development in the womb : FETAL
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Off-key, in a way : FLAT
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Like some history or hygiene : ORAL
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City surrounding Vatican City : ROME
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On bended ___ : KNEE
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Overly refined : EFFETE
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"Yikes!," to a Brit : BLIMEY
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Reporter's attribution atop an article : BYLINE
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Read : PERUSE
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Rock's Carmen or Clapton : ERIC
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Earthy deposits by a river : SILTS
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Steak similar to a porterhouse : TBONE
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Stylish : CHIC
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Margin : EDGE
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"___ better to have loved and lost ..." : TIS
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Passé : OLD
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Misfortune : WOE
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Agree silently : NOD

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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