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NYT Crossword May 21 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated May 21 2026

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Every answer from the Thursday, May 21 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Gossiped-about duo4 lettersSee answer ›5River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi4 lettersSee answer ›9Animal that expresses anger by spitting5 lettersSee answer ›14Curbside call4 lettersSee answer ›15Egg's outline4 lettersSee answer ›16Traditional Vietnamese garment whose name means "long shirt"5 lettersSee answer ›172000 Eminem single with lines from his "biggest fan"4 lettersSee answer ›18St. Benedict, for one4 lettersSee answer ›19Central meeting points5 lettersSee answer ›20timiL12 lettersSee answer ›2350¢ or $1: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›24Fish more formally known as a batomorph3 lettersSee answer ›25Capital of Portugal, to natives6 lettersSee answer ›29Crown of jewels6 lettersSee answer ›31Penultimate Greek letter3 lettersSee answer ›33One of four seen on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man"3 lettersSee answer ›34Goat's cry3 lettersSee answer ›35Golfer's suppor-9 lettersSee answer ›38Move like a fox5 lettersSee answer ›40Get a lode of this!3 lettersSee answer ›41John from Britain5 lettersSee answer ›42Evade9 lettersSee answer ›44"Bad" beginning3 lettersSee answer ›45Like news that everyone already knows3 lettersSee answer ›46Legal boundaries?3 lettersSee answer ›47Kind of cat with a black-and-white coat6 lettersSee answer ›50More melted, as a marshmallow6 lettersSee answer ›53Tree alongside a ski run3 lettersSee answer ›54Bro, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›55P | u | n | c | h | e | s12 lettersSee answer ›59Sound of a perfect basketball shot5 lettersSee answer ›62"Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden4 lettersSee answer ›63Ordered4 lettersSee answer ›64Increase, as interest5 lettersSee answer ›65German Ms.4 lettersSee answer ›66Pupil's surroundings4 lettersSee answer ›67Environmentalist Adams5 lettersSee answer ›68Site for many stars?4 lettersSee answer ›69Sounds of disapproval4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Short negative review6 lettersSee answer ›2Floor covering in a Japanese tearoom6 lettersSee answer ›3"Bingo!"11 lettersSee answer ›4Stole material4 lettersSee answer ›5Southern denial6 lettersSee answer ›6Something tickled on a piano5 lettersSee answer ›7"Buy ___. They're not making it anymore" (old saying)4 lettersSee answer ›8Philanthropic group with a clock face in its logo4 lettersSee answer ›9The so-called "Pineapple Isle"5 lettersSee answer ›10Goes around and around5 lettersSee answer ›11Make sense, with "up"3 lettersSee answer ›12"Maggie ___," classic folk song covered by the Beatles3 lettersSee answer ›13ChatGPT, Claude, etc.3 lettersSee answer ›21Inflicts6 lettersSee answer ›22Muse of history4 lettersSee answer ›26Lasting damage from a tough experience, metaphorically11 lettersSee answer ›27Milkshake flavor4 lettersSee answer ›28Gospel shout4 lettersSee answer ›30"Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 19454 lettersSee answer ›31Contented sounds5 lettersSee answer ›32"Changed my mind," in editing notation4 lettersSee answer ›35Curl4 lettersSee answer ›36Hip-knee connectors6 lettersSee answer ›37Source of linseed oil4 lettersSee answer ›38It's all a haze4 lettersSee answer ›39Drug bust unit4 lettersSee answer ›43Model Miranda4 lettersSee answer ›47Make neat6 lettersSee answer ›48Large-eyed African antelope with a duplicative name6 lettersSee answer ›49Fixate6 lettersSee answer ›51Give out5 lettersSee answer ›52Neighbor of Ricky and Lucy, on 1950s TV5 lettersSee answer ›53Far from house-trained5 lettersSee answer ›56Dodgy4 lettersSee answer ›57100%4 lettersSee answer ›58End piece?4 lettersSee answer ›59Belinda's business on "The White Lotus"3 lettersSee answer ›60Prevail3 lettersSee answer ›61Some test figs.3 lettersSee answer ›