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NYT Crossword September 29 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated September 29 2026

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Every answer from the Tuesday, September 29 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

1Big ones can be difficult to manage4 lettersSee answer ›5Urge4 lettersSee answer ›9British John5 lettersSee answer ›14Nincompoop4 lettersSee answer ›15Surrounding glow4 lettersSee answer ›16Who "wants to be defeated" in "Beat It"5 lettersSee answer ›17Where some monster home runs land9 lettersSee answer ›19Language of the Vikings5 lettersSee answer ›20Rich deposits of ore5 lettersSee answer ›21Home of the Buckeyes, for short3 lettersSee answer ›23Muslim holiday, informally3 lettersSee answer ›24Scoped out with intent to rob5 lettersSee answer ›25Pretty long time, in an idiom9 lettersSee answer ›28Battery fill4 lettersSee answer ›29Capital of Yemen5 lettersSee answer ›30Copied4 lettersSee answer ›31"You ___!" ("Absolutely!")3 lettersSee answer ›32Terse4 lettersSee answer ›33"I ___ U" (candy heart message)3 lettersSee answer ›35Another plateful from the buffet, say13 lettersSee answer ›40Deposit/withdrawal site, in brief3 lettersSee answer ›41Board appointee, for short4 lettersSee answer ›42Work unit3 lettersSee answer ›44Chief god of Valhalla4 lettersSee answer ›47European viper5 lettersSee answer ›49Greek goddess of the earth4 lettersSee answer ›50Position of Rickey Henderson in M.L.B.9 lettersSee answer ›52Storage units5 lettersSee answer ›53Dad on "Black-ish"3 lettersSee answer ›54Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks"3 lettersSee answer ›55Indie rock singer ___ O5 lettersSee answer ›56Couch5 lettersSee answer ›58Wedding officiant's directive ... or what both halves of 17-, 25-, 35- and 50-Across do?9 lettersSee answer ›62Unconcealed5 lettersSee answer ›63Toll unit on some roads4 lettersSee answer ›64Tour de France entry4 lettersSee answer ›65"Cooties"5 lettersSee answer ›66Hitch up on a farm4 lettersSee answer ›67Ice cream brand that's a cousin of Dreyer's4 lettersSee answer ›

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1Address ending that's not .com, .org or .gov3 lettersSee answer ›2Reach great heights in life8 lettersSee answer ›3Like black and white8 lettersSee answer ›4Numbered in a tournament bracket6 lettersSee answer ›5Always at the pharmacy?4 lettersSee answer ›6Regret3 lettersSee answer ›7Middle-earth foe3 lettersSee answer ›8___ Territory, 1861-896 lettersSee answer ›9Ho-hum feeling5 lettersSee answer ›10British john3 lettersSee answer ›11Ripped to pieces6 lettersSee answer ›12Like not-work-from-home days6 lettersSee answer ›13Had to have6 lettersSee answer ›18Visibly embarrassed, say3 lettersSee answer ›22Like subcompacts vis-à-vis compacts7 lettersSee answer ›24What can travel a fare distance?3 lettersSee answer ›25Brain-busting4 lettersSee answer ›26Just between us7 lettersSee answer ›27Blue race in "Avatar"4 lettersSee answer ›29Raisin brand whose containers feature a girl in a red bonnet7 lettersSee answer ›32Hotel request3 lettersSee answer ›34Scanned lines, for short3 lettersSee answer ›36"If you ___ stand the heat ..."4 lettersSee answer ›37Crossed (out)4 lettersSee answer ›38Made nice?8 lettersSee answer ›39Band with the 6x platinum album "American Idiot"8 lettersSee answer ›43Pit stop refill3 lettersSee answer ›44Subject of a saying about new tricks6 lettersSee answer ›45Infer (from)6 lettersSee answer ›46Perhaps not at all6 lettersSee answer ›48Spinner of tunes6 lettersSee answer ›49Move like Shakira in her "Hips Don't Lie" video6 lettersSee answer ›51Courier and Century Gothic, for two5 lettersSee answer ›52"Nuts!"3 lettersSee answer ›55Achy joint for a floor installer, perhaps4 lettersSee answer ›57Pitcher's asset3 lettersSee answer ›59Kitchen brand that could be an unsuccessful tic-tac-toe line3 lettersSee answer ›60Sort3 lettersSee answer ›61Texting format, for short3 lettersSee answer ›