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New York Times, Thursday, January 22, 2026

Author:
Joe DiPietro
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
Tackling the task at hand
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Joe DiPietro

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 74, Blocks: 37 Missing: {BJQZ} This is puzzle # 142 for Mr. DiPietro. Grid flow: 34.1 Thursday freshness: 59%
Jim Horne notes:

GREEN means GO and RED means STOP, so:

  • WORKINGREENNIT → WORKINGONIT
  • COMEREDASS → COMESTOPASS
  • LOREDPORTUNITY → LOSTOPPORTUNITY
  • XINGREENUT → XINGOUT
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© 2026, The New York Times1/22/26 ( No. 27,834 )
Across
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Purchase of ice cream or cream ale : PINT
5
Cognac label letters : VSOP
9
Escapade : ANTIC
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Goddess depicted with cow's horns : ISIS
15
"Hey, look who's here!" : OHHI
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Film without much wardrobe, informally : PORNO
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Watch sound : TICK
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Happens : COMESTOPASS
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Left in : STETTED
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Ingredient in a zombie : RUM
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Late ___ : FEE
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Anxious : ANTSY
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Francis Ford Coppola's alma mater, for short : UCLA
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Org. that watches television : FCC
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Tackling the task at hand : WORKINGONIT
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Dump : STY
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Unceasingly : NOEND
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Hotel room coolers, for short : ACS
34
Band with the 2008 platinum single "Electric Feel" : MGMT
35
Cut (in) : ETCH
38
Flabbergasted feeling : AWE
40
Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests : URANO
42
Low : SAD
45
Result of missing the boat : LOSTOPPORTUNITY
49
Activist who was Time's 1963 Man of the Year, familiarly : MLK
50
Sweeping : VAST
51
Seth of Apple TV's "Platonic" : ROGEN
52
Furious feeling : IRE
53
Rescue squad pro : EMT
54
Country whose seven-letter name can be spelled using only one-point Scrabble tiles : ESTONIA
56
Striking through : XINGOUT
59
"___ what I'm talkin' 'bout!" : DATS
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Standard : USUAL
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Lead-in to -drome : AERO
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Oversupply : GLUT
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Full of energy : PEPPY
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___ Mix : MEOW
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Catch a glimpse of : ESPY
Down
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Tools requiring two people : PITSAWS
2
"Am I wrong about that?" : ISITNOT
3
"Please, I know better than that" : NICETRY
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"You know better than that" : TSKTSK
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Sotto ___ : VOCE
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Sporting flats, say : SHOD
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Omega, in physics : OHM
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Approximately 84% of American women have at least one : PIERCEDEAR
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Early ancestor : APEMAN
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(The) OK : NOD
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With 42-Down, they tell you when to stop and go ... as seen in this puzzle's theme : TRAFFIC
12
Bees, but not birds : INSECTS
13
Trig ratio : COSEC
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Kick butt, so to speak : RULE
21
Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say : TYING
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Buffet table item : URN
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___ de plume : NOM
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Increase one's intensity : GETUPSTEAM
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"Hard pass" : NAH
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Mal de ___ : MER
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Channel with the longtime slogan "We Know Drama" : TNT
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Legal setting : COURT
38
37-Down order : ALLRISE
39
Roused : WOKENUP
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Turn to mush, maybe : ROT
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See 11-Down : SIGNALS
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Loved every second : ATEITUP
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The New York Islanders in the early 1980s, e.g. : DYNASTY
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Early pop music's ___ Brothers : EVERLY
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Honorific title : DAME
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Pestering type : NOODGE
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Minor snafu : MIXUP
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Mark's successor : EURO
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Put away : STOW
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Space between here and there : GAP
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French word between two surnames : NEE

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

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