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NYT Midi Crossword May 5 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated May 5 2026

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Every answer from the Tuesday, May 5 2026 New York Times Midi Crossword — the mid-size daily puzzle. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Aaron Gee and Avery Gee Katz · Edited by Ian Livengood

Across

1Ultra-manly5 lettersSee answer ›6Airplane ___ (in-flight phone setting)4 lettersSee answer ›10Old-timey dental anesthetic5 lettersSee answer ›11Cooling lotion ingredient4 lettersSee answer ›12[Tap, tap] "Is this thing on?"10 lettersSee answer ›14"Let me think"3 lettersSee answer ›15Historic period3 lettersSee answer ›16Soup ingredient that is often removed before eating7 lettersSee answer ›20Make invalid, as a marriage5 lettersSee answer ›23Language suffix3 lettersSee answer ›24Hustlers in a billiards hall10 lettersSee answer ›27Workplace freebie4 lettersSee answer ›28Sign after Pisces5 lettersSee answer ›29Absolutely crush it, in slang4 lettersSee answer ›30Cook slowly, as tomatoes4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1See-through dress fabric4 lettersSee answer ›2Something about a million times smaller than a grain of sand4 lettersSee answer ›3Buddy4 lettersSee answer ›4Coop resident3 lettersSee answer ›5Trials and tribulations7 lettersSee answer ›6Taj ___5 lettersSee answer ›7Shout from a flamenco dancer3 lettersSee answer ›8One of the Seven Dwarfs3 lettersSee answer ›9Scared reaction to a spider3 lettersSee answer ›13"Summon" a new parent, maybe3 lettersSee answer ›16Like oversized luggage5 lettersSee answer ›17Spooky5 lettersSee answer ›18Slightly crooked, as a picture frame5 lettersSee answer ›19Spill the beans, with "up"4 lettersSee answer ›20Venmo and Splitwise4 lettersSee answer ›21Holiday tune4 lettersSee answer ›22Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally ..."4 lettersSee answer ›25"Every dog ___ its day"3 lettersSee answer ›26What DALL-E, OpenAI's text-to-image tool, can create3 lettersSee answer ›