New Yorker Crossword January 12 2026 Answers (1/12/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's New Yorker Crossword puzzle for January 12 2026 to help you finish it up!
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The New Yorker Crossword January 12, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 1/12/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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# Clue
1A Manipulate with exorbitant displays of affection
9A “My ___” (2005 Black Eyed Peas hit)
14A Test-taker
15A Start of a request
16A Arabesque relative
17A “Shucks”
18A Inveigh (against)
19A Release to a limited audience
21A Cage onscreen, casually
22A Chest bump?
23A Prague’s kingdom, under the Holy Roman Empire
24A Ballot rosters
26A Where Frank O’Hara worked the front desk before becoming an associate curator, familiarly
27A Myrmecologist’s focus
28A Twerp
29A It’s often screwed up
30A Honorific in Hyderabad
31A Subject of discussion on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, say
34A Some corp. officers
36A Sierra Nevada offerings
37A Successor
40A Sony competitor
41A Matching tops and bottoms, e.g.
42A Like some hair extensions
44A “Unbelievable!”
46A Substance whose changeability Descartes cites as evidence that the nature of things can’t be understood through the senses alone
47A Big bother
48A Geopolitical backdrop in “1984”
50A “Thunderstruck” band
51A Follows
52A Showcase for Marian Anderson or Kathleen Ferrier
54A Neo-Impressionist painter fictionalized in a Sondheim musical
55A “The Black Jacobins” author, whom Edward Said called a “restless pilgrim between the West and its former colonial possessions in Africa and America”
56A Writing wrongs?
57A Disregards, in a way
1D Picks up
2D Main ingredients in a Jamaican stew
3D [___ City (place where A.T.M.s offer instructions in Latin)
4D Jannings who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor
5D One-eighth of a byte
6D Crosses to bear
7D Bordeaux wine region
8D Food eschewed by pollotarians
9D Reaction to a crack
10D Excessive
11D Neighbor of Thailand
12D Mushroom also called a penny bun
13D Item of beachwear
15D Capital city east of the Maldives
20D Letter-shaped fasteners
22D Best of the Beatles
25D ___ of Maine (health-store brand)
26D Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory
29D Patti LuPone, for one
30D Twist
32D Actress who once said, “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted”
33D Party-mix cereal
34D Startup funding, colloquially
35D Couples (with)
38D Like the protagonists of “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” and “28 Days Later,” at first
39D Sphinx’s domain
40D Most widespread
41D File-menu option
42D Philosopher who wrote the preface to Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth”
43D Free
45D Field for brainiacs, briefly?
46D 2008 animated movie that depicts “the broken promise of American life,” per the American Film Institute
49D Noncombatant mil. members who began serving in the forties (and a homophone of 46-Across)
50D With urgency
53D Some brunch bevs

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