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NYT Crossword September 23 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 23 2026

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Every answer from the Wednesday, September 23 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

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Across

1Meh4 lettersSee answer ›5Labors like the Seven Dwarfs5 lettersSee answer ›10Looped in via email4 lettersSee answer ›14Covid-19, colloquially4 lettersSee answer ›15Brand acquired by Hasbro in 19985 lettersSee answer ›16Mauna Loa output4 lettersSee answer ›17Car with a logo similar to the Olympic rings4 lettersSee answer ›18Start of a counting rhyme5 lettersSee answer ›19Slightly4 lettersSee answer ›20Honorable conduct on the field13 lettersSee answer ›23Recluses7 lettersSee answer ›24On-schedule6 lettersSee answer ›27Musician's gift3 lettersSee answer ›28Super Mario character with a mushroom for a head4 lettersSee answer ›30Fish eggs3 lettersSee answer ›31Kid around4 lettersSee answer ›34When hunting restrictions are lifted10 lettersSee answer ›37Epic poem originally passed down orally5 lettersSee answer ›39CPR expert3 lettersSee answer ›40Pretense5 lettersSee answer ›41Carnival diversion requiring precision10 lettersSee answer ›44One-named singer who lives in an Irish castle4 lettersSee answer ›45Bikini season, in Bordeaux3 lettersSee answer ›46"Hmm ... I pass"4 lettersSee answer ›47Word before data or deal3 lettersSee answer ›49Peak in the Alaska Range6 lettersSee answer ›51Slender e-cig7 lettersSee answer ›55"You're free to criticize it" ... or a comment one might make about 20-, 34- and 41-Across?13 lettersSee answer ›58Genderqueer identity, informally4 lettersSee answer ›60Windowside perches5 lettersSee answer ›61"Back in my day ..."4 lettersSee answer ›62Instrument also called the "sprightly companion"4 lettersSee answer ›63Greek salad morsel5 lettersSee answer ›64Gave the green light4 lettersSee answer ›65Catches red-handed4 lettersSee answer ›66"Duly ___"5 lettersSee answer ›67They go for bucks4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Brazen5 lettersSee answer ›2Jeweler's magnifying glass5 lettersSee answer ›3"Star Wars" series starring Diego Luna5 lettersSee answer ›4Music genre named for its voluminous dos9 lettersSee answer ›5Distinguished conductor7 lettersSee answer ›6Agenda topics5 lettersSee answer ›7Nickname for grandma4 lettersSee answer ›8Environmental activist Brockovich4 lettersSee answer ›9Naps, in Nicaragua7 lettersSee answer ›10___ to fame5 lettersSee answer ›11One preferring purrs to pooches9 lettersSee answer ›12Actress Mendes3 lettersSee answer ›13"Old man"3 lettersSee answer ›21Spanish aunt3 lettersSee answer ›22720p+ resolution, informally5 lettersSee answer ›25Bonkers5 lettersSee answer ›26Gossip, from the Yiddish5 lettersSee answer ›28It's kept by a metronome5 lettersSee answer ›29Not fooled by4 lettersSee answer ›31Meshed (with)5 lettersSee answer ›32Thrill5 lettersSee answer ›33Jay's reticent partner of filmdom9 lettersSee answer ›35Ivy League school with a dolphin on its coat of arms, informally4 lettersSee answer ›36"Is everything cool between us?"9 lettersSee answer ›38Nonmedical childbirth assistant5 lettersSee answer ›42"Them's fightin' words!"7 lettersSee answer ›43Talked up7 lettersSee answer ›48Arbor Day mo.3 lettersSee answer ›50"Now I remember"5 lettersSee answer ›51Part of a heart or faucet5 lettersSee answer ›52Japanese bread crumbs5 lettersSee answer ›53Host with a mic5 lettersSee answer ›54More than wants5 lettersSee answer ›56Rural structure seen in a Grant Wood lithograph4 lettersSee answer ›57Dart (about)4 lettersSee answer ›58Seemingly for-EH-ver3 lettersSee answer ›59Thunder setting, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›