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NYT Crossword June 26 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated June 26 2026

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Every answer from the Friday, June 26 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Spencer Leach · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Hectic time for JFK4 lettersSee answer ›5Bar of note?4 lettersSee answer ›9Texter's "Hang on a sec"3 lettersSee answer ›12Tightfisted sort5 lettersSee answer ›14Took an Uber, say4 lettersSee answer ›15Top banana4 lettersSee answer ›16Biggest restaurant size that nevertheless is often topped?15 lettersSee answer ›19Logic gate that is only on when neither input is3 lettersSee answer ›20Like many films in teaser trailers11 lettersSee answer ›21Spanish "both"6 lettersSee answer ›23Top banana, for short3 lettersSee answer ›24Ocean-mapping instruments6 lettersSee answer ›25Upper limit that cannot be exceeded7 lettersSee answer ›29Torment5 lettersSee answer ›30Symbol in the Kentucky Derby logo4 lettersSee answer ›31Jazz singer Anita4 lettersSee answer ›33Holders of nets4 lettersSee answer ›34Schlepped5 lettersSee answer ›35SCOTUS head count4 lettersSee answer ›36"Got it"4 lettersSee answer ›37Those for4 lettersSee answer ›38Sing like Sinatra5 lettersSee answer ›39Mickey Mouse7 lettersSee answer ›41Jewelry fasteners6 lettersSee answer ›42___ will3 lettersSee answer ›43Slangy response to a knock at the door6 lettersSee answer ›44Onetime rap group whose initials spell out a synonym for "Jump Around," appropriately11 lettersSee answer ›49Unresponsive, maybe, for short3 lettersSee answer ›51Current affairs?15 lettersSee answer ›53Polite request4 lettersSee answer ›54Public transport option4 lettersSee answer ›55Popular toys, in a plural form officially discouraged by their maker5 lettersSee answer ›56___ admin (I.T. role)3 lettersSee answer ›57"Look, here's the deal …"4 lettersSee answer ›58Refuses to4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Group of mutants4 lettersSee answer ›2Expert on cosmos?10 lettersSee answer ›3Expert on the cosmos10 lettersSee answer ›4"To be," in Tijuana3 lettersSee answer ›5Goals for those in a rush, informally5 lettersSee answer ›6Golf great McIlroy4 lettersSee answer ›7Unlikely scenarios, in techspeak9 lettersSee answer ›8Vacillated8 lettersSee answer ›9[WRONG!]4 lettersSee answer ›10Level4 lettersSee answer ›11Two-pronged fastener4 lettersSee answer ›13Was used up6 lettersSee answer ›15Stan's workplace on "American Dad!," for short3 lettersSee answer ›17Places to go in the U.K.4 lettersSee answer ›18Spur4 lettersSee answer ›22Third-generation Japanese American6 lettersSee answer ›24Draped garment4 lettersSee answer ›25Resting place5 lettersSee answer ›26Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken6 lettersSee answer ›27"Later, dude!"10 lettersSee answer ›28Prison design that allows one guard to keep watch on all the inmates10 lettersSee answer ›30Chess tactic in which the king and queen are attacked simultaneously by a single piece9 lettersSee answer ›32Itches4 lettersSee answer ›34Personalize for8 lettersSee answer ›38Like offspring in a strictly asexual lineage6 lettersSee answer ›40___ Nam4 lettersSee answer ›41Likely contact point of an uppercut4 lettersSee answer ›43Self-driving car company started by Google5 lettersSee answer ›44Closes (in)4 lettersSee answer ›45Big name in skin care4 lettersSee answer ›46Some missed-exit maneuvers, informally4 lettersSee answer ›47Poli-___ (certain college major, for short)3 lettersSee answer ›48Smartphone predecessors, for short4 lettersSee answer ›50Second: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›52Copy cats?3 lettersSee answer ›