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NYT Crossword April 23 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated April 23 2026

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Every answer from the Thursday, April 23 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1"Truth be told …"6 lettersSee answer ›7"___ so!" (German "I see!")3 lettersSee answer ›10Hoax4 lettersSee answer ›14Big name in skin care6 lettersSee answer ›15Leader whose face is shown on renminbi notes3 lettersSee answer ›16Ashen4 lettersSee answer ›17Spot for a catnap?10 lettersSee answer ›19Innings : baseball :: ___ : curling4 lettersSee answer ›20Lead-in to Geo3 lettersSee answer ›21Symbol of mass density3 lettersSee answer ›22They're noisy little buggers7 lettersSee answer ›24Kinkajou cousin5 lettersSee answer ›26Expected outcome4 lettersSee answer ›27Circa5 lettersSee answer ›29Experience deep affirmation, in modern lingo8 lettersSee answer ›33On guard5 lettersSee answer ›34Center5 lettersSee answer ›35Opus ___3 lettersSee answer ›36Follower of open or closed, sartorially4 lettersSee answer ›37Spaghetti-strapped tops, informally5 lettersSee answer ›38Pass (out)4 lettersSee answer ›39Reaction to a sock3 lettersSee answer ›40Tasty item that, paradoxically, can have "ugh" in the middle5 lettersSee answer ›41Queen's collaborator on the 1981 hit "Under Pressure"5 lettersSee answer ›42What the "Music City Miracle" and the "Immaculate Reception" took place in8 lettersSee answer ›44Alternative to bow ties5 lettersSee answer ›45It might follow "ye"4 lettersSee answer ›46"___ days are gone"5 lettersSee answer ›48Test release?7 lettersSee answer ›51Qt. or pt.3 lettersSee answer ›52G.I. entertainers3 lettersSee answer ›55Trawling, say4 lettersSee answer ›56When many rainbows appear10 lettersSee answer ›59Like some chances4 lettersSee answer ›60Steering aid3 lettersSee answer ›61Sign on a restroom door6 lettersSee answer ›62Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu, in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie"4 lettersSee answer ›63Science guy Bill3 lettersSee answer ›64Ring combo6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Babe in the woods4 lettersSee answer ›2Adidas competitor4 lettersSee answer ›3*Material for a sidewalk4 lettersSee answer ›4Media exec Sarandos3 lettersSee answer ›5"You game?"7 lettersSee answer ›6*To a degree6 lettersSee answer ›7"Why ___ even here?"3 lettersSee answer ›8It might come after trig4 lettersSee answer ›9*Lack of pulchritude8 lettersSee answer ›10Pickle portions6 lettersSee answer ›11Something that's kept in the family ... or a hint to making sense of three pairs of answers in this puzzle10 lettersSee answer ›12Alan of "M*A*S*H"4 lettersSee answer ›13State of a playroom, often4 lettersSee answer ›18Lush3 lettersSee answer ›23Young stud4 lettersSee answer ›24Bungee jumping necessity4 lettersSee answer ›25"Assuming there's no other option for me …"7 lettersSee answer ›27Withdrawn5 lettersSee answer ›28*Choice cut10 lettersSee answer ›30Go over for publication4 lettersSee answer ›31Start of a counting rhyme5 lettersSee answer ›32Company that famously used the Beatles' "Revolution" in a 1987 TV commercial4 lettersSee answer ›33Lots and lots4 lettersSee answer ›34Thick locks4 lettersSee answer ›37*Supermarket shopper's clipping8 lettersSee answer ›38Alternative to a cup4 lettersSee answer ›40Owie kissers, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›41Member of a wedding party7 lettersSee answer ›43Twinkles6 lettersSee answer ›44*Sport that uses mallets6 lettersSee answer ›47"You ___ me worried!"3 lettersSee answer ›48Something to be done4 lettersSee answer ›49Louisiana's Grand ___ State Park4 lettersSee answer ›50Speak while looking up, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›52Foot or stone4 lettersSee answer ›53Goulash, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›54Really, really4 lettersSee answer ›57Wrath3 lettersSee answer ›58Weird Al's "___ to a Superhero"3 lettersSee answer ›