NYT Crossword Answers 01/14/26

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NYT Across Clues

• 1A Wasn’t even close, as in comparison PALED
• 6A Fashion name that’s become slang for “excellent” GUCCI
• 11A Binary 10, in decimal value TWO
• 14A Garlicky sauce AIOLI
• 15A Beef up the arsenal, say REARM
• 16A Tuna variety AHI
• 17A “Sunday in the Park With George,” for one BROADWAYMUSICAL
• 20A Big ___ (audacious thing to make) ASK
• 21A Ref. work with over 600,000 words OED
• 22A Moves (over) SCOOTS
• 23A Signs INKS
• 25A “Nonsense!” PSHAW
• 27A “Oh, that does make sense” ISEE
• 29A Milker’s handful TEAT
• 31A They may be fixed or variable RATES
• 35A River at Memphis NILE
• 36A “We want more!” ENCORE
• 38A Ump’s call OUT
• 39A Jerry’s uncle on “Seinfeld” LEO
• 40A Sent away for ORDERED
• 41A Historic stretch ERA
• 42A That’s a me problem EGO
• 43A Madison Square Garden team KNICKS
• 44A Sporty Pontiacs of the 1960s GTOS
• 45A Actress Thompson of “Westworld” TESSA
• 47A Oceanic VAST
• 48A Ill-considered RASH
• 49A Wired HYPER
• 51A Unappetizing gruel SLOP
• 53A Like a dress that falls short? PETITE
• 56A Burlesque accessory BOA
• 57A Vietnamese noodle dish PHO
• 60A Pulitzer-winning composer and lyricist of “Sunday in the Park With George” STEPHENSONDHEIM
• 64A Greenwich Village’s Stonewall ___ INN
• 65A Poet who wrote “Only through time time is conquered” ELIOT
• 66A Grub, e.g. LARVA
• 67A Pathetic SAD
• 68A Linking point NEXUS
• 69A German industrial city ESSEN

NYT Vertical Clues

• 1D Old sunscreen initialism PABA
• 2D Gets off one’s chest AIRS
• 3D Ones who probably aren’t buying it? LOOKIELOOS
• 4D She, in São Paulo ELA
• 5D Performed well enough DIDOK
• 6D Alum GRAD
• 7D 180 UEY
• 8D Bit of spy gear, informally CAM
• 9D Defeat decisively CRUSH
• 10D Mock “Ooh, you frighten me!” IMSCARED
• 11D Kind of shell TACO
• 12D “Wait, ___?” WHAT
• 13D Makes less noisy, in a way OILS
• 18D “The Magnificent Seven” or “The Hateful Eight” WESTERN
• 19D Where Caitlin Clark played Division I basketball IOWA
• 24D Once called NEE
• 25D Warm-up lap leader PACECAR
• 26D They communicate through bill-clattering STORKS
• 27D Cove INLET
• 28D Battle of Vicksburg in the Civil War, e.g. SIEGE
• 30D Salad green ENDIVE
• 32D Tunes with an irresistible rhythm TOETAPPERS
• 33D Change across the Atlantic EUROS
• 34D Squirrel away STASH
• 37D Lies atop RESTSON
• 40D “Very well ?” OKAYTHEN
• 44D Miracle-___ GRO
• 46D Modern suffix with situation SHIP
• 50D Key’s longtime partner in sketch comedy PEELE
• 52D 51-Across server LADLE
• 53D Trident-shaped letters PSIS
• 54D Sicilian landmark ETNA
• 55D Look after TEND
• 56D Most online customer service agents nowadays BOTS
• 58D Queen’s domain HIVE
• 59D Sultanate near Yemen OMAN
• 61D Cancel NIX
• 62D Trifling amount SOU
• 63D Is blessed with HAS