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NYT Crossword September 21 2026 Answers

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

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

Constructed by Alexander Liebeskind · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Where Mongolia is4 lettersSee answer ›5Scaredy-cat4 lettersSee answer ›9Leafs (through)5 lettersSee answer ›14Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize4 lettersSee answer ›15Berry at a smoothie shop4 lettersSee answer ›16Company behind the game Pong5 lettersSee answer ›17Mentally pooped15 lettersSee answer ›201960s service site, informally3 lettersSee answer ›21Common injury site for a basketball player, informally3 lettersSee answer ›22Thick, as plant growth4 lettersSee answer ›23Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam14 lettersSee answer ›28Commercial that may come with a jingle7 lettersSee answer ›29Took a chair3 lettersSee answer ›30Eager4 lettersSee answer ›31Hair parter4 lettersSee answer ›34Continue a subscription5 lettersSee answer ›38Barely passing grade3 lettersSee answer ›39Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across7 lettersSee answer ›41Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate3 lettersSee answer ›42Sometimes-floral organic compound5 lettersSee answer ›44Draped Indian garment4 lettersSee answer ›45___-X (computer command to cut text)4 lettersSee answer ›46Crosses (out)3 lettersSee answer ›48Conjures up, say7 lettersSee answer ›50"If I'm being honest ..."14 lettersSee answer ›54Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna4 lettersSee answer ›55Opposite of 'neath3 lettersSee answer ›56Fools' mo.3 lettersSee answer ›57"A fight requires more than one person"15 lettersSee answer ›63"I'm available to help"5 lettersSee answer ›64Modern note-taking aid4 lettersSee answer ›65Plant in a marsh4 lettersSee answer ›66Spanish babies5 lettersSee answer ›67What a paper airplane icon may indicate4 lettersSee answer ›68Thing in a grove4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Big letters in home security3 lettersSee answer ›2___ Paulo, Brazil3 lettersSee answer ›3Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"9 lettersSee answer ›4Relief for an upset stomach7 lettersSee answer ›5Simple two-player card game3 lettersSee answer ›6Drink cooler3 lettersSee answer ›7Angry with5 lettersSee answer ›8Throw from a mound5 lettersSee answer ›9Butter square3 lettersSee answer ›10Any Olympian7 lettersSee answer ›11First name of Julius Caesar5 lettersSee answer ›12Artist Max5 lettersSee answer ›13Worshiper in a turban4 lettersSee answer ›18Texter's qualifier4 lettersSee answer ›19Cries in a fútbol stadium4 lettersSee answer ›23Barter5 lettersSee answer ›24Roof overhangs5 lettersSee answer ›25It may have a hard or soft shell4 lettersSee answer ›26Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons5 lettersSee answer ›27Paves the way?4 lettersSee answer ›32N.Y.C. subway letters3 lettersSee answer ›33Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper5 lettersSee answer ›35Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery9 lettersSee answer ›36Spearfishing bird5 lettersSee answer ›37People of SW Britain5 lettersSee answer ›39Without charge4 lettersSee answer ›40The Emerald Isle4 lettersSee answer ›43Like skydiving or cliff-diving7 lettersSee answer ›45Dashboard or bumper7 lettersSee answer ›47Place to put a coin4 lettersSee answer ›49Coup d'___4 lettersSee answer ›50Joke with5 lettersSee answer ›51Like some wine barrels5 lettersSee answer ›52___ and Clark5 lettersSee answer ›53Familiar narrative device5 lettersSee answer ›54Leave dumbfounded4 lettersSee answer ›58French possessive3 lettersSee answer ›59Catch some rays3 lettersSee answer ›60Bizarre3 lettersSee answer ›61"Golly!"3 lettersSee answer ›62Poetic tribute3 lettersSee answer ›