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NYT Crossword September 24 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 24 2026

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Every answer from the Thursday, September 24 2026 New York Times Crossword, checked and verified against the published NYT solution. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Jeff Stillman · Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1Slang for an Italian dish … or along with QI, the highest-value two-letter word in Scrabble2 lettersSee answer ›3Make an impression4 lettersSee answer ›7Hanger-on5 lettersSee answer ›12Blunder3 lettersSee answer ›14Recital pieces5 lettersSee answer ›16"Same here," more stiffly5 lettersSee answer ›17Canapé topping3 lettersSee answer ›18Traction enhancer5 lettersSee answer ›19Ships, say5 lettersSee answer ›20Cheerios grain3 lettersSee answer ›21American architect who invented Scrabble while unemployed during the Great Depression11 lettersSee answer ›23Hold tightly5 lettersSee answer ›25Like most manuscript submissions5 lettersSee answer ›26Many a Scottish native4 lettersSee answer ›28Circuit in which Martina Navratilova holds the most singles titles, in brief7 lettersSee answer ›33Dish featured in Broadway's "Sweeney Todd"7 lettersSee answer ›36Decline4 lettersSee answer ›37Scrabble's name prior to its acquisition by James Brunot in 194815 lettersSee answer ›41Ford or Lincoln4 lettersSee answer ›42Full of vivid detail, as memory7 lettersSee answer ›43Supposed sign of a healthy pooch7 lettersSee answer ›45Onesie fastener4 lettersSee answer ›47Actress Rene of "Thor"5 lettersSee answer ›50Watchdog's warning5 lettersSee answer ›53Bonus score for a bingo (using all seven of one's tiles) in Scrabble11 lettersSee answer ›58Actress Sandra or Ruby3 lettersSee answer ›59Dr. Seuss' environmentalist5 lettersSee answer ›60Open, as a toothpaste tube5 lettersSee answer ›61Like Brahms's Symphony No. 33 lettersSee answer ›62Cognizant5 lettersSee answer ›63Home to Oral Roberts University5 lettersSee answer ›64Verizon competitor, informally3 lettersSee answer ›65Power measures5 lettersSee answer ›66Witnessed4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Weightless state, for short5 lettersSee answer ›2Cheering wildly5 lettersSee answer ›3Ones who have trouble finishing sentences?8 lettersSee answer ›4Ring4 lettersSee answer ›5Chin feature5 lettersSee answer ›6Old and trite5 lettersSee answer ›7Wavelength symbol6 lettersSee answer ›8Genesis twin4 lettersSee answer ›9Doctor4 lettersSee answer ›10Belmont entry4 lettersSee answer ›11Sound during a cat fight4 lettersSee answer ›13Put on sale, perhaps5 lettersSee answer ›15From one tone to the next adjacent tone, in music8 lettersSee answer ›22Finds repugnant7 lettersSee answer ›24Biblical figure with a notoriously bad hair day?6 lettersSee answer ›27Gets ready to hit the ice7 lettersSee answer ›29Like some garages6 lettersSee answer ›30Crew need3 lettersSee answer ›31Hamburger connection?3 lettersSee answer ›32Some scale members3 lettersSee answer ›34Vies for a roster spot8 lettersSee answer ›35Group of seals3 lettersSee answer ›37Crow's cry3 lettersSee answer ›38Wish undone3 lettersSee answer ›39Addams Family cousin3 lettersSee answer ›40Record held by the Spruce Goose for over 70 years, at 320 feet8 lettersSee answer ›44Straight-horned antelopes6 lettersSee answer ›46Spots for addresses5 lettersSee answer ›48Kind of cavity5 lettersSee answer ›49Frère de la mère5 lettersSee answer ›51Forgot what you intended to say4 lettersSee answer ›52Didn't fill in, as a field on an application4 lettersSee answer ›53Design problem4 lettersSee answer ›54Part of the Corn Belt4 lettersSee answer ›55Row house?4 lettersSee answer ›56Patisserie pastry4 lettersSee answer ›57Stun, in a way4 lettersSee answer ›