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NYT Crossword September 16 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 16 2026

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Every answer from the Wednesday, September 16 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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1Important info to have while you're waiting in a cellphone lot, for short3 lettersSee answer ›4Fall or fell6 lettersSee answer ›10Cause of a sudden change in interest, informally?4 lettersSee answer ›14Close4 lettersSee answer ›15Pho soup garnishes7 lettersSee answer ›16Conduit of neural signals4 lettersSee answer ›17Early models10 lettersSee answer ›19Relative of a gull4 lettersSee answer ›20"Ain't gonna happen"4 lettersSee answer ›21Big bang cause3 lettersSee answer ›22Chilling5 lettersSee answer ›24The remotest of remote jobs?9 lettersSee answer ›27Kid5 lettersSee answer ›28Supermodel Banks4 lettersSee answer ›29Break into loud cheers, as a crowd5 lettersSee answer ›31Answer to "Who's ready to go?"3 lettersSee answer ›33Broadcast3 lettersSee answer ›35Uno + due3 lettersSee answer ›36Mononymous Irish singer4 lettersSee answer ›37Animated film that was the highest-grossing movie of 19927 lettersSee answer ›41"Impossible!"7 lettersSee answer ›43Hibernation spots4 lettersSee answer ›44Dip target, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›46Things entered in a sudoku grid: Abbr.3 lettersSee answer ›47Messy dorm room, figuratively3 lettersSee answer ›48Fruits often seen in still lifes5 lettersSee answer ›50Take back, for short4 lettersSee answer ›53City haze4 lettersSee answer ›55Canine guard?8 lettersSee answer ›57Dishwasher cycle5 lettersSee answer ›59"A form of madness," it's said3 lettersSee answer ›60Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip"4 lettersSee answer ›62Singer/songwriter Mitchell4 lettersSee answer ›63Fruits named after a mythical drink10 lettersSee answer ›66Noted cartoon dog5 lettersSee answer ›67Its first video, "Me at the zoo," has over 400 million views7 lettersSee answer ›68State whose outline can be made by connecting seven particular squares in this puzzle4 lettersSee answer ›69Valley4 lettersSee answer ›70Give a once-over6 lettersSee answer ›71Crafty3 lettersSee answer ›

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1Channel with "2" and "U" spinoffs4 lettersSee answer ›2Pharynx setting6 lettersSee answer ›3Post-mortem7 lettersSee answer ›4General on a Chinese menu3 lettersSee answer ›5Decide one will5 lettersSee answer ›6Hester of "The Scarlet Letter"6 lettersSee answer ›7Grab-and-go breakfast option7 lettersSee answer ›8Guitar relative4 lettersSee answer ›9Gas brand seen in Edward Hopper's "Portrait of Orleans"4 lettersSee answer ›10Betting odds, e.g.5 lettersSee answer ›11Concern for a gymnastics judge9 lettersSee answer ›12Certain pickleball shot8 lettersSee answer ›13Greenwich Village's Stonewall, e.g.3 lettersSee answer ›18Groups of four7 lettersSee answer ›23Paper competing with the W.S.J.3 lettersSee answer ›25Debugger?4 lettersSee answer ›26Remedy for a missed exit5 lettersSee answer ›30Lowly worker4 lettersSee answer ›32Farm sound3 lettersSee answer ›34Ready to eat4 lettersSee answer ›36Small hound that doesn't bark7 lettersSee answer ›37What a premium subscription may help you avoid3 lettersSee answer ›38"Time to go!"8 lettersSee answer ›39Very soon9 lettersSee answer ›40By4 lettersSee answer ›42What "Coco" is a nickname for, for tennis's Coco Gauff4 lettersSee answer ›45Military hairstyles8 lettersSee answer ›48Family-friendly movie ratings3 lettersSee answer ›49The Sphinx, for one6 lettersSee answer ›51Classic comic strip that's the source for nine Emmys and two Tonys7 lettersSee answer ›52Folding a fitted sheet, it may seem6 lettersSee answer ›54Edible bulb5 lettersSee answer ›56Many Moroccans5 lettersSee answer ›58Mononymous Irish singer4 lettersSee answer ›61Grayish4 lettersSee answer ›62Profile pic format, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›64Dawn deity3 lettersSee answer ›65In medias ___3 lettersSee answer ›