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140 CLUES

Please find below all the New York Times Crossword answers for November 15 2026. In total there are 140 clues. Select a clue to see its answer and explanation.

Across

1Flat6 letters 7Stupors5 letters 12Read, as a bar code4 letters 16Ending of some D.C. addresses3 letters 19___ Singer, longtime cast member on "The Real Housewives of New York City"6 letters 20Board at a nail salon5 letters 21Housebroken, say4 letters 22Classic TV brand3 letters 23"Gonna Make You Sweat" (1990)17 letters 26Fixture at many a cash-only restaurant3 letters 27Chicken ___ (cheesy dish)4 letters 28"Hang tight," in textspeak3 letters 29Rap artist who once appeared as a hologram at Coachella5 letters 30Mate4 letters 31"Oh, OK"6 letters 34"I Want You" (1969)11 letters 36Trap5 letters 39"… never mind"5 letters 41Canine command3 letters 42"___ the Patchwork Elephant" (children's book series)5 letters 43"Single Ladies" (2008)12 letters 46Like the sounds "m," "n" and "ng," in English5 letters 48Emmitt and kin, in "Zootopia"6 letters 49Like some meats5 letters 51Picks up6 letters 55Mao ___-tung3 letters 56Some medical assistants, in brief5 letters 59Relating to Leo XIV, e.g.5 letters 62Exclamation on some Halloween décor3 letters 63Profs' right hands3 letters 64[Wags finger]4 letters 65Portia of "Arrested Development"7 letters 67Olympic gymnast Raisman3 letters 68Govt. payment system3 letters 69What six answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the song titles in their clues13 letters 72Animation frame3 letters 73"Code red! Code red!"3 letters 74Officially, the Empire State Building has 102 of them7 letters 75Aggrieved4 letters 76Lead-in to "curious," for a food website3 letters 77Disapproving sound3 letters 78Japanese sneaker maker5 letters 79Take care of5 letters 81Lose to gravity3 letters 82Like some of the French crown jewels in 20256 letters 85Certain jazz combo5 letters 87Feminist scholar Butler6 letters 90Cropped up5 letters 93"December, 1963" (1975)12 letters 96Early arcade name5 letters 99Couch shape3 letters 101Sherlock's sister on TV5 letters 102Musical collection, say5 letters 103"This Must Be the Place" (1983)11 letters 106Clog or loafer6 letters 108___ vez (again, in Spanish)4 letters 109Landmark 1988 Japanese animated film5 letters 110Freud conceived of a "super" one3 letters 111Talks, talks, talks4 letters 115"___ be nice!"3 letters 116"Escape" (1979)17 letters 121Neither's partner3 letters 122Rest on one's ___4 letters 123Unconsciously make noise?5 letters 124Like some apartment appliances6 letters 125Goody bag item3 letters 126If's partner, in coding4 letters 127Defeats by a hair5 letters 128Foreign spies, e.g.6 letters

Down

1___ school4 letters 2Hot stuff4 letters 3Red, white and blue land: Abbr.4 letters 4Oscar-winning Sally Field role of 19798 letters 5Whichever3 letters 6Clergyperson on the bimah5 letters 7Comedian Mitch who said "An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs"7 letters 8"Gilmore Girls" creator ___ Sherman-Palladino3 letters 9British ending3 letters 10Flop ___ (period of personal setbacks, in modern slang)3 letters 11Instrument associated with '80s music5 letters 12Helps to handle something7 letters 13Rummy relative7 letters 14BP brand5 letters 15Email status3 letters 16Kind of cracker6 letters 17Musical interval6 letters 18Another name for the Slayer Handbook, in the "Buffy" franchise6 letters 24Filmmaker Welles5 letters 25Sticks on a table4 letters 30Instrument with an endpin5 letters 32Mr. abroad4 letters 33Cain's firstborn5 letters 34Recipe directive4 letters 35Broccoli unit4 letters 36Some quick chemical assessments9 letters 37Gaga for9 letters 38Co-signs9 letters 40Albatross4 letters 44"Are you out?"9 letters 45Conical dwelling5 letters 47Mexican dip9 letters 50Fabric fold stitched into a waistline, say4 letters 52Hand gesture in the form of "bunny ears"9 letters 53Giving thought to somebody?9 letters 54Atrium features9 letters 57They're used in Ireland but not Northern Ireland5 letters 58French darling5 letters 60Composure5 letters 61Scarflike tie5 letters 64Positive periods3 letters 65Cabinet creation of 2002, in brief3 letters 66Michigan's Grosse ___3 letters 70One-named singer who collaborated with the Velvet Underground4 letters 71U.K. grocery chain5 letters 79Like most clothing4 letters 80Essential character5 letters 83Grub5 letters 84Shallowest Great Lake4 letters 86"So ___ say"4 letters 88Golden Rule preposition4 letters 89Bacchanal honoree8 letters 91Those on a quest7 letters 92Planetary orbit shape7 letters 94Genetic variants7 letters 95Siberian forest5 letters 96Rub with oil, say6 letters 97Result of someone needling you?6 letters 98Hang on a clothesline, say6 letters 100___ Beth Denberg, original cast member of "All That"4 letters 104Taj ___5 letters 105Ballet, par exemple5 letters 107Speaking spots5 letters 112Top of the top4 letters 113Do some fiber art4 letters 114Squad leaders: Abbr.4 letters 116Third of three X's, maybe3 letters 117"Your point being …?"3 letters 118Worker bee, so to speak3 letters 119Load from a lode3 letters 120Q&A part: Abbr.3 letters

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