NYT Crossword April 12 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on April 12 2026.
- 136
- Total Clues
- 63
- Total Across
- 73
- Total Down
Clues Across (63 total)
(1)
Words ___ Friends
The answer is: with
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Dunderheads
The answer is: dolts
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Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida
The answer is: cuba
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Reduce to a pulp
The answer is: mash
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Actress ___ Grace Moretz
The answer is: chloe
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"The game's ___": Henry V
The answer is: afoot
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Mystery writer?
The answer is: anon
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Soothing succulent
The answer is: aloe
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HOT woman worth fighting for?
The answer is: helenoftroy
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Throwing weapon known in Japanese as a shuriken
The answer is: ninjastar
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2010-12's ___ Spring
The answer is: arab
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Coronary insert
The answer is: stent
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(28)
GOT in the ballpark?
The answer is: giveortake
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Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building"
The answer is: selena
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Under, poetically
The answer is: neath
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Trick
The answer is: ruse
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Music to a comedian's ears
The answer is: laugh
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Some 1960s-style protests
The answer is: lieins
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Contents of a black-and-white pod
The answer is: orcas
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(43)
BOB Dylan album?
The answer is: blondeonblonde
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(47)
Impossible to read, perhaps
The answer is: incode
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(48)
Word before cut or class
The answer is: low
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(49)
Fragrant compound
The answer is: ester
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(50)
"It's ___. Do you know where your children are?" (old P.S.A.)
The answer is: tenpm
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(52)
Butcher's cut
The answer is: loin
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Takes a little off
The answer is: trims
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Time's 2023 Person of the Year
The answer is: swift
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A.I.-powered video hoaxes
The answer is: deepfakes
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In ___
The answer is: situ
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(61)
Portuguese wine
The answer is: madeira
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Put out again
The answer is: reissue
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MOB wives?
The answer is: mailorderbrides
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(68)
Casino supervisor
The answer is: pitboss
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(71)
Surround
The answer is: enclose
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(72)
Poker in the Olympics?
The answer is: epee
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How an urgent text may be written
The answer is: inallcaps
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Affect emotionally
The answer is: touch
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Carne ___
The answer is: asada
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Word on either side of "à"
The answer is: tete
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Org. founded to fund foreign projects
The answer is: usaid
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Vapes, familiarly
The answer is: ecigs
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King's title, in brief
The answer is: rev
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(87)
Turkish summit
The answer is: ararat
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SOAP film?
The answer is: snakesonaplane
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Alternative to a Les Paul, for short
The answer is: strat
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(94)
Dad's deflection
The answer is: askmom
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(95)
One of the seven deadly sins
The answer is: greed
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(96)
Vegetables rarely cut with a knife
The answer is: peas
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Switch positions
The answer is: onoff
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Washington or Berlin
The answer is: irving
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KID napper's demand?
The answer is: keepitdown
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Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak
The answer is: tilts
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(111)
Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"
The answer is: edie
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Winning country at the 2022 World Cup
The answer is: argentina
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(113)
THE big game?
The answer is: texasholdem
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"You're full of baloney!"
The answer is: liar
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"Right on, man"
The answer is: idig
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"Baywatch" actress Eleniak
The answer is: erika
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(118)
Breathers
The answer is: lulls
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Goals
The answer is: ends
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Reference
The answer is: cite
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Fall perennial
The answer is: aster
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Primatologists' subjects
The answer is: apes
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Clues Down (73 total)
(1)
One of a reporter's W's
The answer is: where
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Line of latitude?
The answer is: illallowit
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Squishy part of a cat's paw, cutesily
The answer is: toebean
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Brooding sort
The answer is: hen
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Nutty
The answer is: daft
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Frequently
The answer is: often
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2025 biography subtitled "The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"
The answer is: lorne
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Nickname for the 6'9" Dallas Cowboys great Ed Jones
The answer is: tootall
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What a mess
The answer is: sty
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Kid's repeated request
The answer is: cani
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Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr.
The answer is: univ
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Idiot mistakes
The answer is: boners
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Pear variety
The answer is: anjou
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Dazzling displays of skill
The answer is: masterclasses
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Utah ski resort
The answer is: alta
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Linger in the bath
The answer is: soak
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Roll call response
The answer is: here
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Nickname that's an alternative to Chuck
The answer is: chas
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Native Oklahomans
The answer is: osages
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Bad lighting?
The answer is: arson
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Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 1812
The answer is: ghent
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Some N.S.F.W. texts
The answer is: nudes
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Madre's hermano
The answer is: tio
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Spicy dips
The answer is: hotsalsas
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Named, informally
The answer is: ided
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Madre's baby
The answer is: nene
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Manipulates dishonestly
The answer is: cooks
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Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels)
The answer is: adieu
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Feel
The answer is: sense
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Crunchy sandwiches, for short
The answer is: blts
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___ Greiner, inventor and "Shark Tank" personality
The answer is: lori
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Fresh cut
The answer is: newdo
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Prickly patch
The answer is: brier
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Fetter
The answer is: impede
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Disappearing from the earth
The answer is: perishing
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Hip-hop artists with unintelligible lyrics
The answer is: mumblerappers
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Bona ___
The answer is: fide
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Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body)
The answer is: trent
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Mild oath
The answer is: fie
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Trading card error
The answer is: miscut
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(62)
Bowed, musically
The answer is: arco
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Big inits. in 1990s internet
The answer is: aol
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Genre for Stevie Ray Vaughan
The answer is: blues
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Celebrity chef DiSpirito
The answer is: rocco
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Gyro wraps
The answer is: pitas
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Like krypton
The answer is: inert
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Turkic language
The answer is: tatar
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Basic drumming pattern
The answer is: paradiddle
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Steinbeck's "East of ___"
The answer is: eden
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Place for Christmas lights
The answer is: eave
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"Not interested"
The answer is: pass
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Head toward bankruptcy, say
The answer is: sink
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According to
The answer is: asper
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Matt of "Oppenheimer"
The answer is: damon
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Overly bright and showy
The answer is: garish
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Used DoorDash, say
The answer is: atein
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___Mari Method (tidying system)
The answer is: kon
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Hams
The answer is: emoters
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Advance in a video game
The answer is: levelup
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"That was true for me, too"
The answer is: asdidi
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Storage area
The answer is: attic
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Demand from a disgruntled customer
The answer is: fixit
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Unreliable sort, in slang
The answer is: flake
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(102)
What a Bohr!
The answer is: niels
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(103)
Diamonds, but not clubs
The answer is: gems
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Dark green
The answer is: kale
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(105)
"The Office" receptionist
The answer is: erin
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Mild oath
The answer is: egad
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(107)
"Don't worry, boss!"
The answer is: onit
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(108)
Kind of hike
The answer is: wage
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(110)
Position removed by the February Revolution
The answer is: tsar
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(113)
Drink "for two," in song
The answer is: tea
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(114)
Portuguese greeting
The answer is: ola
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