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NYT Crossword May 28 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Thursday, May 28 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Surname of two Indian prime ministers6 lettersSee answer ›7Fly-by-night types?4 lettersSee answer ›11Go (for)3 lettersSee answer ›14Drew Carey, Halle Berry or Guy Fieri, originally6 lettersSee answer ›15Baroque instrument4 lettersSee answer ›16Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly)3 lettersSee answer ›17Walking-around money for Pavarotti?11 lettersSee answer ›19Veto3 lettersSee answer ›20Whistling stickup man on "The Wire"4 lettersSee answer ›21Cry of frustration5 lettersSee answer ›22McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B.4 lettersSee answer ›23Hajj destination5 lettersSee answer ›25Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s6 lettersSee answer ›27Preacher's gift?13 lettersSee answer ›29Fly catcher?4 lettersSee answer ›30Kind of a drag?4 lettersSee answer ›31Parrot3 lettersSee answer ›32Perceptive7 lettersSee answer ›35Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station7 lettersSee answer ›37Get ___ (shine scholastically)3 lettersSee answer ›38Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly4 lettersSee answer ›40Billionaire Musk4 lettersSee answer ›415 and 8 go into 42, for example?13 lettersSee answer ›45Fan of "I" statements6 lettersSee answer ›46Dissect with a diagram5 lettersSee answer ›47"___, actually ..."4 lettersSee answer ›48Start of many first-year course names5 lettersSee answer ›50Lawman who got out of Dodge4 lettersSee answer ›5460 minuti3 lettersSee answer ›55Local leader is prohibited?11 lettersSee answer ›57Clear3 lettersSee answer ›58Bum around Europe4 lettersSee answer ›59Intentional creases6 lettersSee answer ›60Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad"3 lettersSee answer ›61Changes the locks?4 lettersSee answer ›62Acted all crabby?6 lettersSee answer ›

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1Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code4 lettersSee answer ›2[Excuse me]4 lettersSee answer ›3Totenberg of public radio4 lettersSee answer ›4People who get walked all over8 lettersSee answer ›5Bit of a laugh3 lettersSee answer ›6Not separated6 lettersSee answer ›7Throwing style7 lettersSee answer ›8Bit of a lark4 lettersSee answer ›9Lady-killer8 lettersSee answer ›10Machiavellian, in a way3 lettersSee answer ›11Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?"10 lettersSee answer ›12Written with venom9 lettersSee answer ›13Oil, they say8 lettersSee answer ›18Birthplace of Dr Pepper4 lettersSee answer ›22Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two3 lettersSee answer ›24México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others7 lettersSee answer ›26Guardians of bushido tradition7 lettersSee answer ›27National drink of Puerto Rico10 lettersSee answer ›28Two, for many a putt-putt hole3 lettersSee answer ›29It's a zoo out there9 lettersSee answer ›32Blue stop sign?8 lettersSee answer ›33Third in order8 lettersSee answer ›34Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien3 lettersSee answer ›36Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze8 lettersSee answer ›39Comes on little cat feet7 lettersSee answer ›42"___ death do us part"3 lettersSee answer ›43Comedian Jimmy4 lettersSee answer ›44Opposite of 39-Down6 lettersSee answer ›49Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines)4 lettersSee answer ›51Fussbudgety, say4 lettersSee answer ›52Mindless repetition4 lettersSee answer ›53Affliction for many first responders, in brief4 lettersSee answer ›55"Spy vs. Spy" magazine3 lettersSee answer ›56Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick"3 lettersSee answer ›