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NYT Crossword April 8 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated April 8 2026

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Every answer from the Wednesday, April 8 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1"I'm afraid not," quaintly6 lettersSee answer ›7Food brand for Fido4 lettersSee answer ›11Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›15Cash in6 lettersSee answer ›16Avocado dip, informally4 lettersSee answer ›17Take a risk4 lettersSee answer ›18Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale?11 lettersSee answer ›20Keenly interested4 lettersSee answer ›21Shakespearean "soon"4 lettersSee answer ›22That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"?11 lettersSee answer ›24Commotion3 lettersSee answer ›25Measure of college readiness, for short4 lettersSee answer ›26Knuckled rub to the scalp6 lettersSee answer ›27Publishing house workers: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›28Goal3 lettersSee answer ›29Wood-shaping hand tool4 lettersSee answer ›31Tagging symbols3 lettersSee answer ›32___-Magnon3 lettersSee answer ›33Vegas opener?3 lettersSee answer ›34Perry of pop4 lettersSee answer ›36Opportunity for a choral understudy?12 lettersSee answer ›39Belgrade native4 lettersSee answer ›40"Beats me," in a text3 lettersSee answer ›41Caviar, essentially3 lettersSee answer ›42Miss Piggy, for one3 lettersSee answer ›43Assns.4 lettersSee answer ›45Extended comedic riff3 lettersSee answer ›46Hindi for "rule"3 lettersSee answer ›49Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot"6 lettersSee answer ›51Girl in Glasgow4 lettersSee answer ›52Alias initialism3 lettersSee answer ›53When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis?11 lettersSee answer ›56"Groovy, man"4 lettersSee answer ›57Popular flavor of bubble tea4 lettersSee answer ›58"What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.?11 lettersSee answer ›60Volunteer's offer4 lettersSee answer ›61Hits hard4 lettersSee answer ›62Respond, as a pupil might6 lettersSee answer ›63Ending with kitchen4 lettersSee answer ›64Painter Paul4 lettersSee answer ›65Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 46 lettersSee answer ›

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1Covered passageway6 lettersSee answer ›2Meteor in a November shower6 lettersSee answer ›3Enhancing accessories6 lettersSee answer ›4Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films4 lettersSee answer ›5Original Super Mario Bros. console3 lettersSee answer ›6Oversight8 lettersSee answer ›7Author's representative5 lettersSee answer ›8Moon over Managua4 lettersSee answer ›9Treaty4 lettersSee answer ›10What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have6 lettersSee answer ›11The Gem State5 lettersSee answer ›12Find one's way8 lettersSee answer ›13Dublin college founded in 15927 lettersSee answer ›14Apartment planter sites, perhaps6 lettersSee answer ›19Good gardening soil4 lettersSee answer ›23Traditional samurai hairstyles8 lettersSee answer ›25Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example8 lettersSee answer ›29Frame for a game of pool4 lettersSee answer ›30Forehead marking at the start of Lent3 lettersSee answer ›32Convention bldg., in a mailing address3 lettersSee answer ›33Dudes, in British English4 lettersSee answer ›35Big name in hardware stores3 lettersSee answer ›36Underground scurrier8 lettersSee answer ›37Half of a darting motion3 lettersSee answer ›38Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader8 lettersSee answer ›39One-man band, for example7 lettersSee answer ›42Sentimental sort6 lettersSee answer ›44Comment6 lettersSee answer ›45Make ___ (earn vast sums)4 lettersSee answer ›46Unit of angular measurement6 lettersSee answer ›47Like6 lettersSee answer ›48Rolling Stones frontman6 lettersSee answer ›50Absorber of UV light5 lettersSee answer ›51Charter5 lettersSee answer ›54Word with cavity or contraceptive4 lettersSee answer ›55One acting rather quiet?4 lettersSee answer ›56Savory South Asian rice cake4 lettersSee answer ›59Lower, as lights3 lettersSee answer ›