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NYT Crossword November 15 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Sunday, November 15 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Flat6 lettersSee answer ›7Stupors5 lettersSee answer ›12Read, as a bar code4 lettersSee answer ›16Ending of some D.C. addresses3 lettersSee answer ›19___ Singer, longtime cast member on "The Real Housewives of New York City"6 lettersSee answer ›20Board at a nail salon5 lettersSee answer ›21Housebroken, say4 lettersSee answer ›22Classic TV brand3 lettersSee answer ›23"Gonna Make You Sweat" (1990)17 lettersSee answer ›26Fixture at many a cash-only restaurant3 lettersSee answer ›27Chicken ___ (cheesy dish)4 lettersSee answer ›28"Hang tight," in textspeak3 lettersSee answer ›29Rap artist who once appeared as a hologram at Coachella5 lettersSee answer ›30Mate4 lettersSee answer ›31"Oh, OK"6 lettersSee answer ›34"I Want You" (1969)11 lettersSee answer ›36Trap5 lettersSee answer ›39"… never mind"5 lettersSee answer ›41Canine command3 lettersSee answer ›42"___ the Patchwork Elephant" (children's book series)5 lettersSee answer ›43"Single Ladies" (2008)12 lettersSee answer ›46Like the sounds "m," "n" and "ng," in English5 lettersSee answer ›48Emmitt and kin, in "Zootopia"6 lettersSee answer ›49Like some meats5 lettersSee answer ›51Picks up6 lettersSee answer ›55Mao ___-tung3 lettersSee answer ›56Some medical assistants, in brief5 lettersSee answer ›59Relating to Leo XIV, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›62Exclamation on some Halloween décor3 lettersSee answer ›63Profs' right hands3 lettersSee answer ›64[Wags finger]4 lettersSee answer ›65Portia of "Arrested Development"7 lettersSee answer ›67Olympic gymnast Raisman3 lettersSee answer ›68Govt. payment system3 lettersSee answer ›69What six answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the song titles in their clues13 lettersSee answer ›72Animation frame3 lettersSee answer ›73"Code red! Code red!"3 lettersSee answer ›74Officially, the Empire State Building has 102 of them7 lettersSee answer ›75Aggrieved4 lettersSee answer ›76Lead-in to "curious," for a food website3 lettersSee answer ›77Disapproving sound3 lettersSee answer ›78Japanese sneaker maker5 lettersSee answer ›79Take care of5 lettersSee answer ›81Lose to gravity3 lettersSee answer ›82Like some of the French crown jewels in 20256 lettersSee answer ›85Certain jazz combo5 lettersSee answer ›87Feminist scholar Butler6 lettersSee answer ›90Cropped up5 lettersSee answer ›93"December, 1963" (1975)12 lettersSee answer ›96Early arcade name5 lettersSee answer ›99Couch shape3 lettersSee answer ›101Sherlock's sister on TV5 lettersSee answer ›102Musical collection, say5 lettersSee answer ›103"This Must Be the Place" (1983)11 lettersSee answer ›106Clog or loafer6 lettersSee answer ›108___ vez (again, in Spanish)4 lettersSee answer ›109Landmark 1988 Japanese animated film5 lettersSee answer ›110Freud conceived of a "super" one3 lettersSee answer ›111Talks, talks, talks4 lettersSee answer ›115"___ be nice!"3 lettersSee answer ›116"Escape" (1979)17 lettersSee answer ›121Neither's partner3 lettersSee answer ›122Rest on one's ___4 lettersSee answer ›123Unconsciously make noise?5 lettersSee answer ›124Like some apartment appliances6 lettersSee answer ›125Goody bag item3 lettersSee answer ›126If's partner, in coding4 lettersSee answer ›127Defeats by a hair5 lettersSee answer ›128Foreign spies, e.g.6 lettersSee answer ›

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1___ school4 lettersSee answer ›2Hot stuff4 lettersSee answer ›3Red, white and blue land: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›4Oscar-winning Sally Field role of 19798 lettersSee answer ›5Whichever3 lettersSee answer ›6Clergyperson on the bimah5 lettersSee answer ›7Comedian Mitch who said "An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs"7 lettersSee answer ›8"Gilmore Girls" creator ___ Sherman-Palladino3 lettersSee answer ›9British ending3 lettersSee answer ›10Flop ___ (period of personal setbacks, in modern slang)3 lettersSee answer ›11Instrument associated with '80s music5 lettersSee answer ›12Helps to handle something7 lettersSee answer ›13Rummy relative7 lettersSee answer ›14BP brand5 lettersSee answer ›15Email status3 lettersSee answer ›16Kind of cracker6 lettersSee answer ›17Musical interval6 lettersSee answer ›18Another name for the Slayer Handbook, in the "Buffy" franchise6 lettersSee answer ›24Filmmaker Welles5 lettersSee answer ›25Sticks on a table4 lettersSee answer ›30Instrument with an endpin5 lettersSee answer ›32Mr. abroad4 lettersSee answer ›33Cain's firstborn5 lettersSee answer ›34Recipe directive4 lettersSee answer ›35Broccoli unit4 lettersSee answer ›36Some quick chemical assessments9 lettersSee answer ›37Gaga for9 lettersSee answer ›38Co-signs9 lettersSee answer ›40Albatross4 lettersSee answer ›44"Are you out?"9 lettersSee answer ›45Conical dwelling5 lettersSee answer ›47Mexican dip9 lettersSee answer ›50Fabric fold stitched into a waistline, say4 lettersSee answer ›52Hand gesture in the form of "bunny ears"9 lettersSee answer ›53Giving thought to somebody?9 lettersSee answer ›54Atrium features9 lettersSee answer ›57They're used in Ireland but not Northern Ireland5 lettersSee answer ›58French darling5 lettersSee answer ›60Composure5 lettersSee answer ›61Scarflike tie5 lettersSee answer ›64Positive periods3 lettersSee answer ›65Cabinet creation of 2002, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›66Michigan's Grosse ___3 lettersSee answer ›70One-named singer who collaborated with the Velvet Underground4 lettersSee answer ›71U.K. grocery chain5 lettersSee answer ›79Like most clothing4 lettersSee answer ›80Essential character5 lettersSee answer ›83Grub5 lettersSee answer ›84Shallowest Great Lake4 lettersSee answer ›86"So ___ say"4 lettersSee answer ›88Golden Rule preposition4 lettersSee answer ›89Bacchanal honoree8 lettersSee answer ›91Those on a quest7 lettersSee answer ›92Planetary orbit shape7 lettersSee answer ›94Genetic variants7 lettersSee answer ›95Siberian forest5 lettersSee answer ›96Rub with oil, say6 lettersSee answer ›97Result of someone needling you?6 lettersSee answer ›98Hang on a clothesline, say6 lettersSee answer ›100___ Beth Denberg, original cast member of "All That"4 lettersSee answer ›104Taj ___5 lettersSee answer ›105Ballet, par exemple5 lettersSee answer ›107Speaking spots5 lettersSee answer ›112Top of the top4 lettersSee answer ›113Do some fiber art4 lettersSee answer ›114Squad leaders: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›116Third of three X's, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›117"Your point being …?"3 lettersSee answer ›118Worker bee, so to speak3 lettersSee answer ›119Load from a lode3 lettersSee answer ›120Q&A part: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›