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NYT Crossword May 12 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Tuesday, May 12 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

1Appropriate answer for 1-Across5 lettersSee answer ›6Have the sense of4 lettersSee answer ›10Females shepherded by shepherds4 lettersSee answer ›14Fuel-bearing ship5 lettersSee answer ›15Leer at4 lettersSee answer ›16One piece of a three-piece suit4 lettersSee answer ›17Listing at an ice cream shop in Ipswich15 lettersSee answer ›20Lou Gehrig's disease, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›21"___ Robinson" (Simon & Garfunkel song)3 lettersSee answer ›22Happen afterward5 lettersSee answer ›23Some limb-moving muscles9 lettersSee answer ›27Kids' items at a day care in Derby14 lettersSee answer ›32Pack tightly5 lettersSee answer ›33Spanish for "this"4 lettersSee answer ›34Pod tidbit3 lettersSee answer ›35Spoke to a convention, say6 lettersSee answer ›37Members of the aristocracy6 lettersSee answer ›40Establishment that might offer free breakfast3 lettersSee answer ›41Quaint lead-in to while4 lettersSee answer ›45Leads off5 lettersSee answer ›46Areas on a map of Manchester14 lettersSee answer ›50Sudden, widespread appearances of illness9 lettersSee answer ›51Live (in)5 lettersSee answer ›54"Thanks a ___!" (informal appreciation)3 lettersSee answer ›55Butcher's discard3 lettersSee answer ›58"Hmm, why use the spellings of 17-, 27- and 46-Across?"15 lettersSee answer ›63Laura of "Jurassic Park"4 lettersSee answer ›64A pelican can hold more water in this than in its belly4 lettersSee answer ›65Franz ___, Prague-born writer of dark fiction5 lettersSee answer ›66Force holding us onto Earth, informally4 lettersSee answer ›67Pepsi alternative4 lettersSee answer ›68Be present5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Divan4 lettersSee answer ›2Tens or ones place?4 lettersSee answer ›3Lead-in to "poor Yorick!"4 lettersSee answer ›4Al Sharpton's title, for short3 lettersSee answer ›5Instrument with a Renaissance-era ancestor called a sackbut8 lettersSee answer ›6"Absolutely!"7 lettersSee answer ›7Sense of self3 lettersSee answer ›8Hermey is one, in TV's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"3 lettersSee answer ›9Do-over at serving3 lettersSee answer ›10"Nevertheless …"6 lettersSee answer ›11Marries4 lettersSee answer ›12One son of Isaac and Rebekah4 lettersSee answer ›13Bacterial eye malady4 lettersSee answer ›18Pakistani language4 lettersSee answer ›19Chervil or chive4 lettersSee answer ›23Touched down4 lettersSee answer ›24Stool pigeons, in police shorthand3 lettersSee answer ›25Explosive inits.3 lettersSee answer ›26Kind of arch in architecture4 lettersSee answer ›27___ asada5 lettersSee answer ›28Resident of a Mideast sultanate5 lettersSee answer ›29Chose, with "for"5 lettersSee answer ›30Wails5 lettersSee answer ›31Give some lip to4 lettersSee answer ›32Sign up for4 lettersSee answer ›36Some are said to be "swimming" in this4 lettersSee answer ›38Resemble8 lettersSee answer ›39Ways to raise capital, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›42Lowe on TV3 lettersSee answer ›43Big ___, West Coast tourist destination3 lettersSee answer ›44Shake with fear7 lettersSee answer ›47Sandlot QB's order to a receiver6 lettersSee answer ›48Streaming service owned by Disney4 lettersSee answer ›49Cause of a shower drain clog, maybe4 lettersSee answer ›51Birdbrain4 lettersSee answer ›52"At what time?"4 lettersSee answer ›53Brontë heroine4 lettersSee answer ›55Popular female poodle name4 lettersSee answer ›56Inquires4 lettersSee answer ›57Word after "Copy" or "Fancy"4 lettersSee answer ›59Airer of "The View"3 lettersSee answer ›60Site of the world's largest Carnival celebration3 lettersSee answer ›61Wapiti, by another name3 lettersSee answer ›62Put a burden on3 lettersSee answer ›