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NYT Crossword May 14 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, May 14 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

1Cliff formed by a fault5 lettersSee answer ›6Avoided a tag, say4 lettersSee answer ›10Penultimate Greek letter3 lettersSee answer ›13"My fault entirely"5 lettersSee answer ›14Taste perception first identified in 19085 lettersSee answer ›15Physics unit named for a physicist3 lettersSee answer ›16Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 199711 lettersSee answer ›18Confucian "way"3 lettersSee answer ›19Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes9 lettersSee answer ›20Impression on some fancy sheets5 lettersSee answer ›22Puente of "The Mambo Kings"4 lettersSee answer ›23Traveled path5 lettersSee answer ›24At sea, say6 lettersSee answer ›27Powerful fireboat gear8 lettersSee answer ›30Rationalist's theology5 lettersSee answer ›31Decree4 lettersSee answer ›32Part of an analogy4 lettersSee answer ›33"___'s da breaks!"3 lettersSee answer ›34Lovestruck7 lettersSee answer ›37Flesh and blood3 lettersSee answer ›38Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword4 lettersSee answer ›40Direction to bow, in music4 lettersSee answer ›41Squeezing (out)5 lettersSee answer ›43Gets bloated, say8 lettersSee answer ›45Pair for a pool6 lettersSee answer ›46Ruthless Athenian lawgiver5 lettersSee answer ›47Tidy up, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›48What collects in a puddle5 lettersSee answer ›49Things often getting free refills9 lettersSee answer ›54Simile segment3 lettersSee answer ›55Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations11 lettersSee answer ›57___ Friday3 lettersSee answer ›58Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"5 lettersSee answer ›59Heather genus that's also a woman's name5 lettersSee answer ›60Good periods3 lettersSee answer ›61Former small-sized G.M. cars4 lettersSee answer ›62Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters5 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Anatomical containers4 lettersSee answer ›2Thicken4 lettersSee answer ›3Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu4 lettersSee answer ›4September to April, in the oyster industry7 lettersSee answer ›5Alternatives to hourly wages8 lettersSee answer ›6Ecological concern4 lettersSee answer ›7Trellis piece4 lettersSee answer ›8"If u ask me"3 lettersSee answer ›9Gossip about, informally6 lettersSee answer ›10A peeling that's appealing?10 lettersSee answer ›11Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism10 lettersSee answer ›12Reassuring reply4 lettersSee answer ›14"That … ain't it"4 lettersSee answer ›17Essence4 lettersSee answer ›21Certain tax-free bond, informally4 lettersSee answer ›23Velocity, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›24Relatively unusual5 lettersSee answer ›25Had to have right away10 lettersSee answer ›26Races against the clock10 lettersSee answer ›27Travel by pick-up?5 lettersSee answer ›28"The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman4 lettersSee answer ›29Strains to hear?5 lettersSee answer ›31Hemlock relatives4 lettersSee answer ›35Hand, at a hacienda4 lettersSee answer ›36Group with a satellite truck8 lettersSee answer ›39Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu4 lettersSee answer ›42Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name7 lettersSee answer ›44Ancient book of divination6 lettersSee answer ›45Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species4 lettersSee answer ›47Presaging disaster4 lettersSee answer ›48Meaty pasta sauce4 lettersSee answer ›49Long lunch?4 lettersSee answer ›50Get ahead of4 lettersSee answer ›51Cut and paste, e.g.4 lettersSee answer ›52Force through a food mill4 lettersSee answer ›53Go way up4 lettersSee answer ›56Uprooting tool3 lettersSee answer ›