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NYT Midi Crossword May 9 2026 Answers

Deborah Simmons ✓Solving & explaining puzzles since 1998 · Updated May 9 2026

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Every answer from the Saturday, May 9 2026 New York Times Midi Crossword — the mid-size daily puzzle. Select a clue for the full explanation.

Constructed by Sid Sivakumar · Edited by Ian Livengood

Across

1Hunchbacked creatures in "The Lord of the Rings"4 lettersSee answer ›5"Delicious!"3 lettersSee answer ›8___ 66 (iconic 2,278-mile highway)5 lettersSee answer ›10Clickable greeting in an inbox5 lettersSee answer ›13Pull out all the stops5 lettersSee answer ›14Green gunk in a fish tank5 lettersSee answer ›15"Very grateful for your help!"10 lettersSee answer ›17Student's stat3 lettersSee answer ›18Exclamation that aptly rhymes with "shriek"3 lettersSee answer ›19"I'll get this meal"7 lettersSee answer ›22Day, in Spanish3 lettersSee answer ›24Timeworn3 lettersSee answer ›25Statements that lack substance ... or, when read phonetically, a description of the spoken phrases at 15- and 19-Across?9 lettersSee answer ›29Absolute ___ (operation represented by |x|)5 lettersSee answer ›30Prongs of a fork or a kalimba5 lettersSee answer ›33Segment of a movie5 lettersSee answer ›34Rechargeable two-wheeled vehicle5 lettersSee answer ›35Where a 33-Across might be filmed3 lettersSee answer ›36Dish like gumbo4 lettersSee answer ›

Down

1Alternative to .com or .net3 lettersSee answer ›2Hotel unit4 lettersSee answer ›3Big cigar-exporting nation4 lettersSee answer ›4Unwilling to spend much6 lettersSee answer ›5"Uh-huh"4 lettersSee answer ›6Sch. near Hollywood4 lettersSee answer ›7Calendar holder on a refrigerator6 lettersSee answer ›9Cairo's country5 lettersSee answer ›11Tool for collecting fallen leaves4 lettersSee answer ›12A student might be assigned one in a classroom4 lettersSee answer ›16Fortuneteller's card deck5 lettersSee answer ›19Trees that are sources of syrup6 lettersSee answer ›20Make super happy5 lettersSee answer ›21Lines not in the script6 lettersSee answer ›22Software coders, informally4 lettersSee answer ›23Powerful Apple computer4 lettersSee answer ›26Something to whistle or hum4 lettersSee answer ›27Forcefully throw, in modern lingo4 lettersSee answer ›28Work with needles and yarn4 lettersSee answer ›31Barely manage, with "out"3 lettersSee answer ›32Work with needle and thread3 lettersSee answer ›