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New York Times, Monday, January 26, 2026

Author:
Erica Hsiung Wojcik
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]
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Erica Hsiung Wojcik

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 78, Blocks: 36 Missing: {FJKQZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 8 for Ms. Wojcik. Grid flow: 25.8 Monday freshness: 70%
Jim Horne notes:

Pete ROSE, Pete BEST, and Pete DAVIDSON are the THREEPEATS.

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© 2026, The New York Times1/26/26 ( No. 27,838 )
Across
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Pie nut : PECAN
6
Boring task : SLOG
10
"I want to be in the loop on this email" : CCME
14
Love, Italian-style : AMORE
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Walking stick : CANE
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Sounds of inspiration : AHAS
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Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star] : ROSEGARDEN
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Get gooey, maybe : MELT
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Backstreets : ALLEYS
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Spooky : EERIE
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___ one and only : THE
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Itinerary calculation, in brief : ETA
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Connections : INS
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Purple yam used to flavor desserts : UBE
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Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician] : BESTCOMEDYALBUM
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Truffle pigs' assets : SNOUTS
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Connection between topics : SEGUE
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"Over here!" : PSST
36
___ Vicious : SID
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Increase : GOUP
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"Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film) : THING
44
Food court pizza chain : SBARRO
46
North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member] : DAVIDSONCOLLEGE
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Allhallows ___ : EVE
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Cut, as grass : MOW
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Beverage that may come in a pint : ALE
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Cry between "Ready" and "Go!" : SET
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Parisian thanks : MERCI
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Waiter or waitress : SERVER
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"Do ___ others ..." : UNTO
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Athletic trifectas ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across : THREEPEATS
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Wishes undone : RUES
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Fireplace fuel : LOGS
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Jadedness : ENNUI
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Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say : SEXT
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Ones appointed by corp. boards : CEOS
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No-nos : DONTS
Down
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Number on a golf card : PAR
2
Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure : EMO
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Modern lead-in to play : COS
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Space : AREA
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Fail to take care of : NEGLECT
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"Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g. : SCREAM
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Noblewoman : LADY
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Like a biased presentation : ONESIDED
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Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha : GEN
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Arrived : CAME
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Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" : CHERUB
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Beach city west of Los Angeles : MALIBU
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Think highly of : ESTEEM
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Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally : ALTOS
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Jacob's brother in the Bible : ESAU
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Baker's meas. : TBSP
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Mothers of barnyard chicks : HENS
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Those, in Spanish : ESOS
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N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards : NYG
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___-frutti : TUTTI
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Endorse digitally : ESIGN
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Corporate department that handles contracts : LEGAL
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Oversize article of winter footwear : SNOWSHOE
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Metals that miners mine : ORES
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Egg (on) : URGE
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T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden : POET
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Kind of port in A/V : HDMI
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Prefix with -metric or -morphic : ISO
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Puzzle out : SOLVE
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Censored, as on an audiotape : BLEEPED
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Takes exception : DEMURS
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Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan : AVENUE
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Point of a polygon : VERTEX
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Stroke lovingly : CARESS
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"It'll ___ ya" : COST
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Thus : ERGO
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Nevada city near Lake Tahoe : RENO
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Extra attention, in brief : TLC
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Journalist Curry : ANN
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Famed Egyptian king, for short : TUT
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Bro's sibling : SIS

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