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NYT Crossword April 28 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, April 28 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Sore4 lettersSee answer ›5Nail polish brand3 lettersSee answer ›8Some cantina fare5 lettersSee answer ›13"Hip hip hooray!," e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›15Sink-or-swim competition?9 lettersSee answer ›17Handles a few unresolved issues15 lettersSee answer ›19Like tears6 lettersSee answer ›20Site to build on3 lettersSee answer ›21Gossip, slangily3 lettersSee answer ›22Build on5 lettersSee answer ›24Welcome at the door, say5 lettersSee answer ›27Linguist's concern7 lettersSee answer ›30Serious in manner5 lettersSee answer ›31Bagel topping3 lettersSee answer ›32Not perfect, but acceptable11 lettersSee answer ›36Bickering4 lettersSee answer ›38Blade that's pulled3 lettersSee answer ›39Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin4 lettersSee answer ›40Station set up in a kitchen11 lettersSee answer ›45Bit of intel3 lettersSee answer ›46Coins of Cuba5 lettersSee answer ›47Ingredients in some tropical smoothies7 lettersSee answer ›49Foreign Service assignments5 lettersSee answer ›50Madrid mister5 lettersSee answer ›51Church seat3 lettersSee answer ›52Promise to pay3 lettersSee answer ›54Journalist, informally6 lettersSee answer ›58Like children, ideally, in an old adage … or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across15 lettersSee answer ›62Rigorous9 lettersSee answer ›63Astronomer Carl5 lettersSee answer ›64Irritable5 lettersSee answer ›65[As written]3 lettersSee answer ›66Civil rights activist Parks4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Play parts4 lettersSee answer ›2Kind of seed or pet4 lettersSee answer ›3Sometimes-raised part of a shoe4 lettersSee answer ›4Emphatic confirmation6 lettersSee answer ›5Nocturnal hooter3 lettersSee answer ›6Painter Veronese5 lettersSee answer ›7Langston Hughes poem4 lettersSee answer ›8Due + 13 lettersSee answer ›9Mimic3 lettersSee answer ›10Script supervisor's concern10 lettersSee answer ›11___ days5 lettersSee answer ›12Slugger Sammy4 lettersSee answer ›14"Raising Hell" rap trio6 lettersSee answer ›16Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project)6 lettersSee answer ›18Part of a piano or loom5 lettersSee answer ›23Boots on the ground6 lettersSee answer ›25Rep.'s counterpart3 lettersSee answer ›26Ray of McDonald's4 lettersSee answer ›27Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally4 lettersSee answer ›28Naan alternative4 lettersSee answer ›29Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II10 lettersSee answer ›30Mexican wrap6 lettersSee answer ›33Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail3 lettersSee answer ›34Greek goddess of the earth4 lettersSee answer ›35Brewing need4 lettersSee answer ›37They help you drive farther4 lettersSee answer ›41Ballpark fig.3 lettersSee answer ›42Snooping (around)6 lettersSee answer ›43"___ thou not minister to a mind diseased …?": Macbeth5 lettersSee answer ›44Significant periods6 lettersSee answer ›48Overdue debt6 lettersSee answer ›49Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney5 lettersSee answer ›50Islam's largest branch5 lettersSee answer ›51Alternative to a tap on the shoulder4 lettersSee answer ›53Works of praise4 lettersSee answer ›55"Othello" villain4 lettersSee answer ›56Some supports4 lettersSee answer ›57___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking"4 lettersSee answer ›59Minor complaint3 lettersSee answer ›60Unspecified amount3 lettersSee answer ›61Not Rx3 lettersSee answer ›