New Yorker Crossword January 5 2026 Answers (1/5/26)

Our New Yorker Crossword January 5, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The New Yorker Crossword January 5, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 1/5/26, 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	Notable quality of a rain forest
9A	___ Film Festival (annual Barnard College event focussed on stories of women’s leadership)
15A	Effects of some earthquakes
16A	Skyrocketed
17A	Oracle offering
18A	Delicate
19A	Digital instruments?
21A	Establishment on “The Simpsons”
22A	Disco balls, e.g.
23A	Literary lion
26A	It has an edible rind
27A	Interjection at a flamenco performance
30A	Gymnastics competition
31A	Fled
34A	First-rate
35A	Part of a woodworking joint
36A	Favorable margin
37A	Sources of protection for lifeguards
39A	Appearance
40A	Canny
41A	Features of some antique documents
42A	Cake divisions
43A	Month when Bloomsday is celebrated
44A	Faux journalist of a two-thousands TV show
46A	Intended to break down
51A	Pierce
52A	Like the climate in parts of the Australian outback
55A	Secure tightly, with “down”
56A	Bluefin kin
57A	Magazine-subscription card, e.g.
58A	Targets with a throw
1D	Brooklyn ___ (N.Y.C. neighborhood)
2D	Source of support for G.I.s
3D	Fumble
4D	Closest friends
5D	Become apparent to
6D	Subject of a Google Lens search
7D	Landing-gear components
8D	Belgian river that was the site of a 1914 battle
9D	People of Nineveh
10D	Flipped (through)
11D	“The Natural” protagonist Roy
12D	“Tell Mama” singer James
13D	Having no value
14D	Humans, e.g.
20D	Enclose, with “off”
23D	Stockpile
24D	Setting for Bong Joon Ho’s “The Host”
25D	Composer of “Candide” and “West Side Story,” familiarly
26D	Seinfeld’s ex
27D	Song that might spur nostalgia
28D	“Woman with a Cat” painter Fernand
29D	Idyllic places
31D	Rigorous
32D	Custodian
33D	Rich French sauce
38D	More ruthless
42D	Leg bones
43D	App whose logo is a Star of David with a heart inside
44D	___ Quested (“A Passage to India” character)
45D	Flock youngsters
46D	“Persona” actress Andersson
47D	Model who played a shape-shifting alien in “Star Trek VI”
48D	Makes a pick
49D	Urgent letters
50D	Deity depicted with a bow and arrow
53D	N.Y.C. subway system that opened in 1904
54D	“___ gratias” (“Thanks be to God”)

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