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NYT Crossword March 31 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated March 31 2026

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Every answer from the Tuesday, March 31 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Ryan Patrick Smith · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1"The Planets" composer5 lettersSee answer ›6About 746 of these equal one horsepower5 lettersSee answer ›11Colorado Plateau people3 lettersSee answer ›14Sign in a TV studio5 lettersSee answer ›15Kirin competitor5 lettersSee answer ›16Something entered into an A.T.M.3 lettersSee answer ›172003 crime drama adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel11 lettersSee answer ›19___ Bo (exercise regimen popularized via VHS tapes)3 lettersSee answer ›20List in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next"4 lettersSee answer ›21Direct (to)5 lettersSee answer ›22Middle-of-the-bell-curve result4 lettersSee answer ›23Swimmer in a Japanese garden3 lettersSee answer ›25Fled the scene7 lettersSee answer ›27Six Flags location that was the first amusement park to offer 20 roller coasters13 lettersSee answer ›32Chicken ___ king3 lettersSee answer ›33Admissions overseer, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›34Stake5 lettersSee answer ›37The "1" in a 9-1 record4 lettersSee answer ›39Typeface that sounds like the name of a Disney princess5 lettersSee answer ›42___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America)4 lettersSee answer ›43Attire in the old Roman Senate5 lettersSee answer ›45Sign of things to come4 lettersSee answer ›47Crater's edge3 lettersSee answer ›48Concept explaining why certain humanoid robots look so unsettling13 lettersSee answer ›52Cloudy craft beer7 lettersSee answer ›54Mediator between the id and the ideal, in Freudian psychology3 lettersSee answer ›55Pasta that resembles rice4 lettersSee answer ›56Knuckle-cracking or clipping nails in public, to some5 lettersSee answer ›59"hahaha!"4 lettersSee answer ›63Kenan's bestie on a 1990s sitcom3 lettersSee answer ›64Utopian expanse ... a map of which might include 17-, 27- and 48-Across?11 lettersSee answer ›66French 101 article3 lettersSee answer ›67Something to raise in a crisis5 lettersSee answer ›68Like flapjacks and Frisbees5 lettersSee answer ›69Damage3 lettersSee answer ›70Censor, informally5 lettersSee answer ›71Undercover operatives5 lettersSee answer ›

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1"E.T. phone ___"4 lettersSee answer ›2Banded mineral seen at many a street fair4 lettersSee answer ›3Produce coherent light4 lettersSee answer ›4Piece of equipment for a Winter Paralympian6 lettersSee answer ›5Muscle strengthened by dips, familiarly3 lettersSee answer ›6Ending with kitchen or earthen4 lettersSee answer ›7"Dream on!"4 lettersSee answer ›8Establishment where a D&D party might refuel and pick up new leads6 lettersSee answer ›9What 2020 was a year of, in the Chinese zodiac6 lettersSee answer ›10"Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" number)3 lettersSee answer ›11Billy Joel title character who's "been living in her white bread world"10 lettersSee answer ›12Headwear for Wonder Woman5 lettersSee answer ›13Antagonist5 lettersSee answer ›18Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 20146 lettersSee answer ›22Water nymph of Greek myth5 lettersSee answer ›24Anxious condition, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›26Rural turndown3 lettersSee answer ›27Soda fountain order4 lettersSee answer ›28Potatoes, in Indian cuisine4 lettersSee answer ›29Vehicle with low fuel efficiency, in slang10 lettersSee answer ›30Longboat propeller3 lettersSee answer ›31International Longshoremen's Association, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›35Lake separating Ohio from Ontario4 lettersSee answer ›36Rapper ___ Ma4 lettersSee answer ›38Panasonic acquisition of 20095 lettersSee answer ›40"Inside ___ Schumer" (sketch comedy series)3 lettersSee answer ›41Embankments protecting New Orleans6 lettersSee answer ›44Biol. or chem.3 lettersSee answer ›46One who's constantly telling you to do this and do that3 lettersSee answer ›49Horrify6 lettersSee answer ›502010s dance fad with a reduplicative name6 lettersSee answer ›51Bound along clumsily6 lettersSee answer ›52Malarkey5 lettersSee answer ›53Venue for a boss fight5 lettersSee answer ›57French 101 verb4 lettersSee answer ›58Extemporize to fill time, say4 lettersSee answer ›60Hawaii's second-largest island4 lettersSee answer ›61Frank of diary fame4 lettersSee answer ›62Bookie's determination4 lettersSee answer ›64___ Five (advisers on "Queer Eye")3 lettersSee answer ›65Decade makeup: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›