Newsday Crossword January 5 2026 Answers (1/5/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's Newsday Crossword puzzle for January 5 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our Newsday Crossword January 5, 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 5, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday 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 Difficult
5A Stand in line
9A Book of maps
14A Out of town
15A "Additionally..."
16A Sparkled, as shoes
17A Urban overnight accommodation
19A Cheese chunk
20A Pub beverage
21A Prayer endings
22A Raring to go
23A Cub fees
24A Makes changes to
25A Fast-moving river sections
28A Physically nimble
30A Unwrap
31A Made docile
33A Numbered roads: Abbr.
37A Actor Penn or Connery
38A Compete in a marathon
39A Keep for later
40A Car's wheel rod
41A More sensible
43A Highway off-ramp
44A Providence, __ Island
46A Online messages
48A Give, as an award
51A Be introduced to
52A Wedding vow platform
53A Prophetic signs
55A Large body of water
58A Big pieces of concrete
59A Auto picked up at an airport
61A Book's name
62A So what __ is new?''
63A Toward sunrise
64A Three letters in "fusses''
65A Leading performer
66A Small wallet bills
1D "You're hilarious!"
2D Army no-show, for short
3D Evaluate
4D Fabric coloring
5D At the hottest temperature
6D Skin-soothing plants
7D "The shoe __ the other foot"
8D Male cats
9D In addition
10D Place to watch a play
11D Ski resort inn
12D Make furious
13D Fortune-tellers
18D Praise highly
23D Place to order a fine meal
24D Assist
25D Civil rights icon Parks
26D Mountain's acme
27D Bell's loud sound
28D Cause to laugh
29D Bit of heredity
32D Very dry, as a desert
34D Metered car
35D Wicked
36D Sinks, as the sun
41D "Gee, I'm impressed!"
42D Come in again
45D Racetrack animals
47D Southwestern plateau
48D Moisten while roasting
49D __ Island (former immigration center)
50D Lots of data
51D High-IQ club
53D Metals from mines
54D Turn to slush
55D Read quickly
56D Make simpler
57D Martial __ (kung fu and karate)
60D Zodiac feline

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