Tall and thin Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Tall and thin featured in New York Times puzzle on January 17, 2026. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 5 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is LANKY.

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7 Potential Answers:

AnswerLengthSourceDate
LANKY Tall and thin (5) New York Times Jan 17, 2026
LANK Tall and thin (4) Newsday Jan 2, 2026
REEDY Tall and thin (5) Wall Street Journal Apr 12, 2025
RANGY Tall and thin (5) The Guardian Quick Jan 12, 2023
GANGLING Tall and thin (8) The Telegraph Quick Dec 19, 2015
SPINDLY Tall and thin (7)
WEEDY Tall and thin (5)

33 Similar Clues:

RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
36% BEANPOLES Tall and thin people (9) The Telegraph Quick May 7, 2020
36% STRINGY Tall, wiry, thin (7) The Times Concise Sep 26, 2019
36% RANGIER More tall and thin (7) Newsday Sep 25, 2019
36% REEDIEST Most tall and thin (8) Newsday Jun 3, 2018
36% GANGLY Ungracefully tall and thin (6) Eugene Sheffer Oct 1, 2016
36% BEANPOLE Tall and thin person (8)
36% SPINDLED Grew tall and thin (8)
29% FLANK The side that is loud, tall and thin (5) (5)
29% LANKIEST Most ungracefully tall and thin (8) (8)
26% ANGRY Tall and thin, head lowered, looking threatening? (5)

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