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NYT Crossword April 2 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, April 2 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Fanatical groups5 lettersSee answer ›6Dish often topped with lime and cilantro3 lettersSee answer ›9Sci-fi warrior4 lettersSee answer ›13One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven5 lettersSee answer ›14Team behind the cameras4 lettersSee answer ›15Actor Epps of "House"4 lettersSee answer ›16Question after "Well, well, well ..."10 lettersSee answer ›18Jerk4 lettersSee answer ›19"Family Guy" character with a nasal voice4 lettersSee answer ›20Exec who manages a company's day-to-day affairs3 lettersSee answer ›21Word with market or list5 lettersSee answer ›22"Too late to do anything about it now"13 lettersSee answer ›26One who has a lot to show?7 lettersSee answer ›28Bungee jumping requirement4 lettersSee answer ›29First name in beauty products5 lettersSee answer ›30Egg carton?3 lettersSee answer ›31Holders of hammers and anvils4 lettersSee answer ›35One cause of deterioration3 lettersSee answer ›36Marine creatures that can grow to the size of double-decker buses7 lettersSee answer ›40Genre for DMX or DMC3 lettersSee answer ›41Coffee maker inserts4 lettersSee answer ›43Actor Somerhalder of "Lost"3 lettersSee answer ›44Gas company with a triangular logo5 lettersSee answer ›46One side in a "Holy War" rivalry in college football4 lettersSee answer ›48Player on the bench?7 lettersSee answer ›50Sarcastic response to an unwanted offer13 lettersSee answer ›54Oodles5 lettersSee answer ›55Member of a Tolkien army3 lettersSee answer ›56Object in Pixar's logo4 lettersSee answer ›59Demolish4 lettersSee answer ›60Facial wrinkles ... or what's present in 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across?10 lettersSee answer ›63School with a larger-than-life bronze statue of Henry VI4 lettersSee answer ›64Fun-size4 lettersSee answer ›65Irritating "cloud"5 lettersSee answer ›66Beech or birch4 lettersSee answer ›67Ernie who has won the British Open twice3 lettersSee answer ›68Shoelace protector5 lettersSee answer ›

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1Part of a Batman costume4 lettersSee answer ›2Until4 lettersSee answer ›3Had an uplifting experience?9 lettersSee answer ›4Bridge framework7 lettersSee answer ›5Shop item with teeth3 lettersSee answer ›6Before surgery, in brief5 lettersSee answer ›7"Let ___ Go" (2012 Passenger hit)3 lettersSee answer ›8Be shy3 lettersSee answer ›9Some kicks on Route 66, maybe7 lettersSee answer ›10Bit of info on a résumé5 lettersSee answer ›11Ball5 lettersSee answer ›12Teed off5 lettersSee answer ›14Group in a loft5 lettersSee answer ›17Sound in a cave4 lettersSee answer ›21Course standard3 lettersSee answer ›23Gumbo, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›24Disney villain based on Shakespeare's King Claudius4 lettersSee answer ›25Punch in the face, say4 lettersSee answer ›26Extend a tour of duty4 lettersSee answer ›27The first letter in this gas brand's logo resembles a backward 34 lettersSee answer ›30It's often identified by its last four digits, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›32Made in a nonmechanized way, as food products9 lettersSee answer ›33Cloths for custodians4 lettersSee answer ›34TV ad4 lettersSee answer ›37Stead4 lettersSee answer ›38Like Alabama vis-à-vis Mississippi4 lettersSee answer ›39Create a PDF of, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›42Hang7 lettersSee answer ›45Slightest idea7 lettersSee answer ›47Airer of the game show "Wipeout"3 lettersSee answer ›48Bess's beau on Broadway5 lettersSee answer ›49Eczema symptom4 lettersSee answer ›50Pitched5 lettersSee answer ›51"Cool beans!"5 lettersSee answer ›52Instrument once known as a "toy trumpet"5 lettersSee answer ›53Followers of articles5 lettersSee answer ›57Parcel (out)4 lettersSee answer ›58Whisper that might accompany a tap4 lettersSee answer ›60Broadband letters3 lettersSee answer ›61Need a day off, say3 lettersSee answer ›62Big Apple airport code3 lettersSee answer ›