Newsday Crossword January 16 2026 Answers (1/16/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for January 16 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword January 16, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword January 16, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 1/16/26, 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 Service academy studies
5A Military's band
9A Several thousand pounds of wood
13A Very little salt
15A Sea hunter
16A Treat with cocoa
17A Dusseldorf's water
18A Sound of fans
19A On its way
20A Complex challenge
23A Long lead-in
24A "Here's a thought..."
25A Star-studded arrays
29A Real estate tech company
31A Camp David Accords signer Begin
33A "...but maybe not?"
35A Doctor show sets
36A "Himno Nacional," south of the border
41A "You don't mean me?!"
42A Point poorly
43A App or main
47A Got comfy
51A Erupter of 2025
52A Lawn from farms
53A Street map letters
54A How nearly all countries measure
58A Band sample
61A Verdi princess
62A Between, to Racine
63A Mando cousins
64A Get moving
65A Dance or dip
66A Unexcelled
67A No great distance
68A Hacienda hireling
1D "You're getting close"
2D Stay attached
3D Bred
4D Return IDs
5D "Beg pardon?"
6D Suffix for buck
7D Sign of healing
8D Novelist Coben or Ellison
9D Of immense extent
10D It might hold gold
11D __ Faire (role-playing place)
12D Iota of ink
14D Apple phone activator
21D Barrel of laughs
22D What Pam is missing
26D "Slip-on" wear
27D Duration
28D Texting format: Abbr.
30D Aesop's "sour grapes" beast
31D Fluid ounce fraction
32D Harbormaster data
34D "I'll order that also"
36D Champagne name
37D Austrian article
38D Thinnest iPods
39D Back-in-fashion shirts
40D Royal Navy designation
41D "Delish!"
44D Maximum effort
45D Ending meaning "made of"
46D Certain Siberians
48D Rat someone out
49D Very very
50D Put down
52D Hair holder
55D Barrel of laughs
56D Pointless
57D Break (off)
58D Add sound effects
59D Barely manage, with "by"
60D Pair that the five longest answers start and (reflected) end with

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