This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Thursday, January 22, 2026 (25 Across). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Thursday puzzles often have a trick, such as a rebus (several letters in one square) or answers that bend the rules.
How to read this clue
"Abbr." or "for short" means the answer is itself an abbreviation or a shortened form.
Answer length: 4 squares
First letter
U _ _ _
First and last letters
U _ _ A
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About the answer
UCLA as a word: Initialism of University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA has been an answer 9 times in the NYT Crossword and Mini since January 19, 2026.
Other clues with the same answer
- Sch. with the Daily Bruin newspaper
- Sch. attended by Steve Martin, James Dean and Jack Black (none of whom stayed to graduate)
- Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 405
- West Coast sch. that joined the Big Ten in 2024
- Victor over Washington on 11/12/1955 in "Back to the Future, Pt. II" - and in real life
- What you do when you tour a certain SoCal campus, phonetically?
- Where Jackie Robinson played four(!) college sports, in brief
- The N.C.A.A.'s Bruins
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- Late ___ (23 Across)
- Anxious (24 Across)
- Org. that watches television (26 Across)
- Tackling the task at hand (27 Across)
- Dump (31 Across)
- Unceasingly (32 Across)
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