NYT Crossword May 21 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on May 21 2026.

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Clues Across (39 total)

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Gossiped-about duo
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River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi
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Animal that expresses anger by spitting
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Curbside call
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Egg's outline
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Traditional Vietnamese garment whose name means "long shirt"
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2000 Eminem single with lines from his "biggest fan"
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St. Benedict, for one
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Central meeting points
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timiL
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50¢ or $1: Abbr.
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Fish more formally known as a batomorph
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Capital of Portugal, to natives
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Crown of jewels
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Penultimate Greek letter
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One of four seen on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man"
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Goat's cry
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Golfer's suppor-
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Move like a fox
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Get a lode of this!
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John from Britain
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Evade
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"Bad" beginning
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Like news that everyone already knows
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Legal boundaries?
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Kind of cat with a black-and-white coat
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More melted, as a marshmallow
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Tree alongside a ski run
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Bro, e.g.
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P | u | n | c | h | e | s
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Sound of a perfect basketball shot
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"Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden
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Ordered
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Increase, as interest
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German Ms.
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Pupil's surroundings
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Environmentalist Adams
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Site for many stars?
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Sounds of disapproval
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Clues Down (39 total)

(1)
Short negative review
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Floor covering in a Japanese tearoom
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"Bingo!"
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Stole material
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Southern denial
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Something tickled on a piano
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"Buy ___. They're not making it anymore" (old saying)
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Philanthropic group with a clock face in its logo
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The so-called "Pineapple Isle"
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Goes around and around
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Make sense, with "up"
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"Maggie ___," classic folk song covered by the Beatles
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ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
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Inflicts
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Muse of history
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Lasting damage from a tough experience, metaphorically
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Milkshake flavor
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Gospel shout
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"Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 1945
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Contented sounds
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"Changed my mind," in editing notation
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Curl
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Hip-knee connectors
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Source of linseed oil
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It's all a haze
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Drug bust unit
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Model Miranda
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Make neat
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Large-eyed African antelope with a duplicative name
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Fixate
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Give out
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Neighbor of Ricky and Lucy, on 1950s TV
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Far from house-trained
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Dodgy
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100%
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End piece?
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Belinda's business on "The White Lotus"
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Prevail
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Some test figs.
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