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NYT Crossword May 19 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated May 19 2026

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Every answer from the Tuesday, May 19 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

1What you eat4 lettersSee answer ›5Campfire confection5 lettersSee answer ›10Mama ___ of the Mamas & the Papas4 lettersSee answer ›14Clearasil target4 lettersSee answer ›15Hawkeye5 lettersSee answer ›16Sound of a horse's hoof4 lettersSee answer ›17Standard musical progression15 lettersSee answer ›20Dry and withered4 lettersSee answer ›21"Dinner's ready!"7 lettersSee answer ›22High court judge?11 lettersSee answer ›26Joke (around)3 lettersSee answer ›27Whale groups4 lettersSee answer ›28Michael of "The Man Who Would Be King"5 lettersSee answer ›29Joint thing in the Venn diagram of "instruments" and "fish"4 lettersSee answer ›30"That's so sweet!" reactions3 lettersSee answer ›31Semaphore device4 lettersSee answer ›32Patty or Selma, to Bart Simpson4 lettersSee answer ›33Basketball or baseball, but not boxing9 lettersSee answer ›36Frozen dessert franchise4 lettersSee answer ›38New Zealander4 lettersSee answer ›39Denali, e.g.: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›42Heads of Hogwarts?4 lettersSee answer ›43Spry5 lettersSee answer ›45Free-spirited aesthetic4 lettersSee answer ›46"Ick!"3 lettersSee answer ›47Matching pair on many jets11 lettersSee answer ›49Massachusetts locale of Manchester-by-the-Sea7 lettersSee answer ›51"Yikes!"4 lettersSee answer ›52Requirement at some comedy clubs … or for 17-, 22-, 33- and 47-Across?15 lettersSee answer ›57Like a gut course4 lettersSee answer ›58African country that's another African country minus its final two letters5 lettersSee answer ›59Generic canine name4 lettersSee answer ›60Breads for Reuben sandwiches4 lettersSee answer ›61"Beau ___"5 lettersSee answer ›62Leak slowly4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Fist bump3 lettersSee answer ›2Skating exhibition7 lettersSee answer ›3Groups of nine7 lettersSee answer ›4Classic falling-block game6 lettersSee answer ›5Basic dog command3 lettersSee answer ›6It's heard in a herd3 lettersSee answer ›7___ goal (soccer blunder)3 lettersSee answer ›8Gorp tidbit6 lettersSee answer ›9Number added at the end?6 lettersSee answer ›10Cyrillic version of "U.S.S.R."4 lettersSee answer ›11From Nome or Juneau7 lettersSee answer ›12Lone star?7 lettersSee answer ›13Drops some cash6 lettersSee answer ›18___ Lingus3 lettersSee answer ›19Bird of the W.N.B.A.3 lettersSee answer ›22Return sender, maybe, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›23Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 4054 lettersSee answer ›24Sir's counterpart4 lettersSee answer ›25Football, informally7 lettersSee answer ›29Slowly ___ surely3 lettersSee answer ›31Tina who hosted the debut of "Saturday Night Live UK"3 lettersSee answer ›32"Entourage" agent Gold3 lettersSee answer ›33Atlanta-based network3 lettersSee answer ›34Leaves together?4 lettersSee answer ›35Actor Wilson4 lettersSee answer ›36___ zone (no-parking area)7 lettersSee answer ›37Yoga stance on all fours7 lettersSee answer ›39Term of friendship for a French woman7 lettersSee answer ›40Nickname for Jeffrey Lebowski in "The Big Lebowski"7 lettersSee answer ›41Those opposed3 lettersSee answer ›42Villain in "The Silence of the Lambs"6 lettersSee answer ›43Cafe canopy6 lettersSee answer ›44Companion to Fannie and Freddie in the mortgage biz6 lettersSee answer ›45Major unknowns6 lettersSee answer ›47Sailor, informally3 lettersSee answer ›48___ Z (Zoomers)3 lettersSee answer ›50"Grand" ice cream brand4 lettersSee answer ›53Units in a tonne: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›54Was introduced to3 lettersSee answer ›55Wrath3 lettersSee answer ›56Swiffer WetJet, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›