NYT Crossword September 16 2026 Answers

The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on September 16 2026.

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Total Clues
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Clues Across (40 total)

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Important info to have while you're waiting in a cellphone lot, for short
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Fall or fell
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Cause of a sudden change in interest, informally?
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Close
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Pho soup garnishes
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Conduit of neural signals
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Early models
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Relative of a gull
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"Ain't gonna happen"
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Big bang cause
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Chilling
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The remotest of remote jobs?
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Kid
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Supermodel Banks
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Break into loud cheers, as a crowd
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Answer to "Who's ready to go?"
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Broadcast
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Uno + due
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Mononymous Irish singer
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Animated film that was the highest-grossing movie of 1992
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"Impossible!"
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Hibernation spots
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Dip target, maybe
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Things entered in a sudoku grid: Abbr.
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Messy dorm room, figuratively
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Fruits often seen in still lifes
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Take back, for short
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City haze
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Canine guard?
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Dishwasher cycle
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"A form of madness," it's said
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Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip"
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Singer/songwriter Mitchell
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Fruits named after a mythical drink
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Noted cartoon dog
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Its first video, "Me at the zoo," has over 400 million views
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State whose outline can be made by connecting seven particular squares in this puzzle
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Valley
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Give a once-over
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Crafty
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Clues Down (38 total)

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Channel with "2" and "U" spinoffs
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Pharynx setting
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Post-mortem
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General on a Chinese menu
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Decide one will
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Hester of "The Scarlet Letter"
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Grab-and-go breakfast option
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Guitar relative
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Gas brand seen in Edward Hopper's "Portrait of Orleans"
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Betting odds, e.g.
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Concern for a gymnastics judge
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Certain pickleball shot
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Greenwich Village's Stonewall, e.g.
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Groups of four
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Paper competing with the W.S.J.
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Debugger?
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Remedy for a missed exit
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Lowly worker
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Farm sound
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Ready to eat
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Small hound that doesn't bark
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What a premium subscription may help you avoid
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"Time to go!"
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Very soon
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What "Coco" is a nickname for, for tennis's Coco Gauff
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Military hairstyles
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Family-friendly movie ratings
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The Sphinx, for one
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Classic comic strip that's the source for nine Emmys and two Tonys
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Folding a fitted sheet, it may seem
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Edible bulb
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Many Moroccans
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Mononymous Irish singer
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Grayish
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Profile pic format, in brief
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Dawn deity
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In medias ___
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