NYT Crossword April 8 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on April 8 2026.

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Clues Across (41 total)

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"I'm afraid not," quaintly
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Food brand for Fido
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Cash in
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Avocado dip, informally
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Take a risk
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Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale?
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Keenly interested
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Shakespearean "soon"
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That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"?
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Commotion
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Knuckled rub to the scalp
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Publishing house workers: Abbr.
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Goal
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Wood-shaping hand tool
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Tagging symbols
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___-Magnon
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Vegas opener?
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Perry of pop
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Opportunity for a choral understudy?
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Belgrade native
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"Beats me," in a text
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Caviar, essentially
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Miss Piggy, for one
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Assns.
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Extended comedic riff
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Hindi for "rule"
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Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot"
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Girl in Glasgow
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Alias initialism
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When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis?
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"Groovy, man"
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Popular flavor of bubble tea
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"What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.?
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Volunteer's offer
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Hits hard
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Respond, as a pupil might
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Ending with kitchen
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Painter Paul
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Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4
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Clues Down (38 total)

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Covered passageway
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Meteor in a November shower
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Enhancing accessories
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Oversight
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Author's representative
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Moon over Managua
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Treaty
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The Gem State
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Find one's way
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Dublin college founded in 1592
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Apartment planter sites, perhaps
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Good gardening soil
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Traditional samurai hairstyles
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Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example
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Frame for a game of pool
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Dudes, in British English
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Big name in hardware stores
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Underground scurrier
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Half of a darting motion
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Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader
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One-man band, for example
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Sentimental sort
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Comment
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Make ___ (earn vast sums)
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Unit of angular measurement
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Like
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Rolling Stones frontman
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Absorber of UV light
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Charter
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Word with cavity or contraceptive
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One acting rather quiet?
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Savory South Asian rice cake
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Lower, as lights
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