Newsday Crossword January 17 2026 Answers (1/17/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for January 17 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword January 17, 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 17, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 1/17/26, 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 Sneaks by
11A Clods
15A "Anybody home?"
16A One of a long-running morning trio
17A Break
18A Iron-testing org.
19A Sports apparel
20A Place permanently, perhaps
22A Google Maps shortcut
23A Effortless way to advance
24A Fully unloaded?
27A Kaput
28A Where to collect your thoughts
30A Affair party
33A About whom Jack Warner unwisely fumed, "This gangster stuff went out with Cagney"
34A DJ sound effects
36A Only thought
37A Yonder
38A Unimaginative
39A Pledge drives
40A Touchscreen instruction
42A Play just for fun
45A His name is mud
46A All for the maestro
47A Dr. King's "highest good"
48A Corsica ferry destination
50A What you'd never want to be slapped with
53A "Mind blown!"
54A 1883, e.g.
55A Chain key
56A "What you're into" shares
1D Bonsai material
2D Hard to see
3D Woman related to Liz
4D Role-playing secondary characters
5D Hack work?
6D Craft designation
7D Public projections
8D Sci-fi staples
9D Held up
10D Stirs
11D Where Chicken & Sausage Gumbo is served weekly
12D Take out in anger
13D Provider of routine supplies
14D Keep from littering
21D Lacking improvement
24D Unsurpassed in incivility
25D What all big league pitchers must now be
26D Major candy corn confectioner
27D English bitter adaptation
29D Where Mandela rang a bell in 2002
30D Large charge
31D Metaphor for major movies
32D One of Billboard's Greatest Girl Group Songs
33D Immerse yourself (in)
35D Most in need of refreshment
39D First woman on a Wheaties box front (1984)
41D Fare on some conveyor belts
42D Avid desire
43D Turn away
44D 54-Across scenery
45D Warrior word inspired by samurai films
47D Middle management strategy
49D Try to follow
51D Green seed
52D Dandy

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