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NYT Crossword September 12 2026 Answers

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Every answer from the Saturday, September 12 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Light décor10 lettersSee answer ›11Last place?4 lettersSee answer ›15Pop-up with an envelope icon10 lettersSee answer ›16Round figure4 lettersSee answer ›17Winner's circle?10 lettersSee answer ›18Take two4 lettersSee answer ›19Hyperfixated6 lettersSee answer ›20"Thick ___ Brick" (1972 Jethro Tull album)3 lettersSee answer ›21Earth's pull, informally4 lettersSee answer ›22On the ___ (free)5 lettersSee answer ›23Thumbs-down votes in the Duma5 lettersSee answer ›25Why wait?3 lettersSee answer ›26Personal circumstances, so to speak5 lettersSee answer ›28Justice who's the subject of the 2026 biography "Revenge for the Sixties"5 lettersSee answer ›30Rolls out the green carpet?4 lettersSee answer ›34First full word sung in "The Alphabet Song"3 lettersSee answer ›35Proverbial small amount6 lettersSee answer ›36"Now we're talking!"15 lettersSee answer ›39Capers6 lettersSee answer ›40Common ___3 lettersSee answer ›41Rowing machines, in gym lingo4 lettersSee answer ›42"Schitt's Creek" matriarch5 lettersSee answer ›43Really hurts5 lettersSee answer ›45Rout, in computer game lingo3 lettersSee answer ›46Word with letter or grant5 lettersSee answer ›48Toothbrush handle?5 lettersSee answer ›53Smokes4 lettersSee answer ›55N.B.A. coach Jordan ___3 lettersSee answer ›56Punnily named production company behind TV's "Insecure" and "A Black Lady Sketch Show"6 lettersSee answer ›57Stat4 lettersSee answer ›58Common sleep aid10 lettersSee answer ›60Acquire by default?4 lettersSee answer ›61Math class assignment10 lettersSee answer ›62Labor, e.g.: Abbr.4 lettersSee answer ›63Appliances that are always blowing out?10 lettersSee answer ›

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1Carpenter's tool5 lettersSee answer ›2___ acid5 lettersSee answer ›3Kind of photography lens for a close-up5 lettersSee answer ›4Wraps in the Mideast5 lettersSee answer ›5Certain geometry calculations6 lettersSee answer ›6Playwright Moss ___4 lettersSee answer ›7Gymnast Raisman3 lettersSee answer ›8What a joke may get eventually15 lettersSee answer ›9Takes marks off in a classroom?6 lettersSee answer ›10Mid-March V.I.P., informally5 lettersSee answer ›11"Surf" food in Japan, or "turf" animal in Spain4 lettersSee answer ›12Kitchen counter9 lettersSee answer ›13Became a household name, say9 lettersSee answer ›14Examples of media on Medium9 lettersSee answer ›23Many a listing in an etiquette book4 lettersSee answer ›24Wrap in South Asia4 lettersSee answer ›27Actors unsuited for subtle roles4 lettersSee answer ›29Country singer Combs4 lettersSee answer ›30Rewards program tracker9 lettersSee answer ›31"It's finally clear"9 lettersSee answer ›32Phone connector?9 lettersSee answer ›33Arouse4 lettersSee answer ›35Simoleon4 lettersSee answer ›37Labor pain?4 lettersSee answer ›38Journalist Larson who wrote "The Splendid and the Vile"4 lettersSee answer ›43Godzilla adversary6 lettersSee answer ›44Longhorn's rival6 lettersSee answer ›47Acidic5 lettersSee answer ›49Capacious5 lettersSee answer ›50Surface5 lettersSee answer ›51Pointer for a public speaker5 lettersSee answer ›52Sources of the juice that "bleeds" in a faux meat patty5 lettersSee answer ›54Tough thing to be in4 lettersSee answer ›56Stayed together4 lettersSee answer ›59Placeholder abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›