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NYT Crossword April 12 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, April 12 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Lance Enfinger and John Kugelman · Edited by Will Shortz · “Initial Thoughts”

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1Words ___ Friends4 lettersSee answer ›5Dunderheads5 lettersSee answer ›10Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida4 lettersSee answer ›14Reduce to a pulp4 lettersSee answer ›18Actress ___ Grace Moretz5 lettersSee answer ›19"The game's ___": Henry V5 lettersSee answer ›20Mystery writer?4 lettersSee answer ›21Soothing succulent4 lettersSee answer ›22HOT woman worth fighting for?11 lettersSee answer ›24Throwing weapon known in Japanese as a shuriken9 lettersSee answer ›262010-12's ___ Spring4 lettersSee answer ›27Coronary insert5 lettersSee answer ›28GOT in the ballpark?10 lettersSee answer ›29Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building"6 lettersSee answer ›31Under, poetically5 lettersSee answer ›33Trick4 lettersSee answer ›34Music to a comedian's ears5 lettersSee answer ›36Some 1960s-style protests6 lettersSee answer ›39Contents of a black-and-white pod5 lettersSee answer ›43BOB Dylan album?14 lettersSee answer ›47Impossible to read, perhaps6 lettersSee answer ›48Word before cut or class3 lettersSee answer ›49Fragrant compound5 lettersSee answer ›50"It's ___. Do you know where your children are?" (old P.S.A.)5 lettersSee answer ›52Butcher's cut4 lettersSee answer ›53Takes a little off5 lettersSee answer ›55Time's 2023 Person of the Year5 lettersSee answer ›58A.I.-powered video hoaxes9 lettersSee answer ›60In ___4 lettersSee answer ›61Portuguese wine7 lettersSee answer ›63Put out again7 lettersSee answer ›64MOB wives?15 lettersSee answer ›68Casino supervisor7 lettersSee answer ›71Surround7 lettersSee answer ›72Poker in the Olympics?4 lettersSee answer ›76How an urgent text may be written9 lettersSee answer ›79Affect emotionally5 lettersSee answer ›80Carne ___5 lettersSee answer ›81Word on either side of "à"4 lettersSee answer ›82Org. founded to fund foreign projects5 lettersSee answer ›84Vapes, familiarly5 lettersSee answer ›86King's title, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›87Turkish summit6 lettersSee answer ›89SOAP film?14 lettersSee answer ›93Alternative to a Les Paul, for short5 lettersSee answer ›94Dad's deflection6 lettersSee answer ›95One of the seven deadly sins5 lettersSee answer ›96Vegetables rarely cut with a knife4 lettersSee answer ›98Switch positions5 lettersSee answer ›101Washington or Berlin6 lettersSee answer ›104KID napper's demand?10 lettersSee answer ›109Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak5 lettersSee answer ›111Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"4 lettersSee answer ›112Winning country at the 2022 World Cup9 lettersSee answer ›113THE big game?11 lettersSee answer ›115"You're full of baloney!"4 lettersSee answer ›116"Right on, man"4 lettersSee answer ›117"Baywatch" actress Eleniak5 lettersSee answer ›118Breathers5 lettersSee answer ›119Goals4 lettersSee answer ›120Reference4 lettersSee answer ›121Fall perennial5 lettersSee answer ›122Primatologists' subjects4 lettersSee answer ›

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1One of a reporter's W's5 lettersSee answer ›2Line of latitude?10 lettersSee answer ›3Squishy part of a cat's paw, cutesily7 lettersSee answer ›4Brooding sort3 lettersSee answer ›5Nutty4 lettersSee answer ›6Frequently5 lettersSee answer ›72025 biography subtitled "The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"5 lettersSee answer ›8Nickname for the 6'9" Dallas Cowboys great Ed Jones7 lettersSee answer ›9What a mess3 lettersSee answer ›10Kid's repeated request4 lettersSee answer ›11Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›12Idiot mistakes6 lettersSee answer ›13Pear variety5 lettersSee answer ›14Dazzling displays of skill13 lettersSee answer ›15Utah ski resort4 lettersSee answer ›16Linger in the bath4 lettersSee answer ›17Roll call response4 lettersSee answer ›18Nickname that's an alternative to Chuck4 lettersSee answer ›23Native Oklahomans6 lettersSee answer ›25Bad lighting?5 lettersSee answer ›28Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 18125 lettersSee answer ›30Some N.S.F.W. texts5 lettersSee answer ›32Madre's hermano3 lettersSee answer ›35Spicy dips9 lettersSee answer ›37Named, informally4 lettersSee answer ›38Madre's baby4 lettersSee answer ›40Manipulates dishonestly5 lettersSee answer ›41Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels)5 lettersSee answer ›42Feel5 lettersSee answer ›43Crunchy sandwiches, for short4 lettersSee answer ›44___ Greiner, inventor and "Shark Tank" personality4 lettersSee answer ›45Fresh cut5 lettersSee answer ›46Prickly patch5 lettersSee answer ›47Fetter6 lettersSee answer ›51Disappearing from the earth9 lettersSee answer ›54Hip-hop artists with unintelligible lyrics13 lettersSee answer ›56Bona ___4 lettersSee answer ›57Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body)5 lettersSee answer ›59Mild oath3 lettersSee answer ›61Trading card error6 lettersSee answer ›62Bowed, musically4 lettersSee answer ›65Big inits. in 1990s internet3 lettersSee answer ›66Genre for Stevie Ray Vaughan5 lettersSee answer ›67Celebrity chef DiSpirito5 lettersSee answer ›68Gyro wraps5 lettersSee answer ›69Like krypton5 lettersSee answer ›70Turkic language5 lettersSee answer ›73Basic drumming pattern10 lettersSee answer ›74Steinbeck's "East of ___"4 lettersSee answer ›75Place for Christmas lights4 lettersSee answer ›77"Not interested"4 lettersSee answer ›78Head toward bankruptcy, say4 lettersSee answer ›80According to5 lettersSee answer ›83Matt of "Oppenheimer"5 lettersSee answer ›85Overly bright and showy6 lettersSee answer ›88Used DoorDash, say5 lettersSee answer ›90___Mari Method (tidying system)3 lettersSee answer ›91Hams7 lettersSee answer ›92Advance in a video game7 lettersSee answer ›94"That was true for me, too"6 lettersSee answer ›97Storage area5 lettersSee answer ›99Demand from a disgruntled customer5 lettersSee answer ›100Unreliable sort, in slang5 lettersSee answer ›102What a Bohr!5 lettersSee answer ›103Diamonds, but not clubs4 lettersSee answer ›104Dark green4 lettersSee answer ›105"The Office" receptionist4 lettersSee answer ›106Mild oath4 lettersSee answer ›107"Don't worry, boss!"4 lettersSee answer ›108Kind of hike4 lettersSee answer ›110Position removed by the February Revolution4 lettersSee answer ›113Drink "for two," in song3 lettersSee answer ›114Portuguese greeting3 lettersSee answer ›