NYT Crossword September 21 2026 Answers
The complete list of answers to the NYT Crossword published on September 21 2026.
- 76
- Total Clues
- 35
- Total Across
- 41
- Total Down
Clues Across (35 total)
(1)
Where Mongolia is
The answer is: asia
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Scaredy-cat
The answer is: wimp
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Leafs (through)
The answer is: pages
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Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize
The answer is: damn
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Berry at a smoothie shop
The answer is: acai
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Company behind the game Pong
The answer is: atari
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Mentally pooped
The answer is: tootiredtothink
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(20)
1960s service site, informally
The answer is: nam
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(21)
Common injury site for a basketball player, informally
The answer is: acl
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(22)
Thick, as plant growth
The answer is: lush
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(23)
Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam
The answer is: teachtothetest
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(28)
Commercial that may come with a jingle
The answer is: radioad
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(29)
Took a chair
The answer is: sat
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(30)
Eager
The answer is: avid
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(31)
Hair parter
The answer is: comb
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Continue a subscription
The answer is: renew
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Barely passing grade
The answer is: dee
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Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across
The answer is: forties
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(41)
Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate
The answer is: age
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(42)
Sometimes-floral organic compound
The answer is: ester
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(44)
Draped Indian garment
The answer is: sari
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(45)
___-X (computer command to cut text)
The answer is: ctrl
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(46)
Crosses (out)
The answer is: xes
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Conjures up, say
The answer is: creates
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(50)
"If I'm being honest ..."
The answer is: totellthetruth
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(54)
Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna
The answer is: sear
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(55)
Opposite of 'neath
The answer is: oer
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(56)
Fools' mo.
The answer is: apr
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(57)
"A fight requires more than one person"
The answer is: takestwototango
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(63)
"I'm available to help"
The answer is: useme
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(64)
Modern note-taking aid
The answer is: ipad
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(65)
Plant in a marsh
The answer is: reed
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(66)
Spanish babies
The answer is: nenes
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(67)
What a paper airplane icon may indicate
The answer is: send
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Thing in a grove
The answer is: tree
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Clues Down (41 total)
(1)
Big letters in home security
The answer is: adt
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(2)
___ Paulo, Brazil
The answer is: sao
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Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"
The answer is: imonadiet
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Relief for an upset stomach
The answer is: antacid
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Simple two-player card game
The answer is: war
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(6)
Drink cooler
The answer is: ice
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Angry with
The answer is: madat
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(8)
Throw from a mound
The answer is: pitch
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Butter square
The answer is: pat
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Any Olympian
The answer is: athlete
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First name of Julius Caesar
The answer is: gaius
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Artist Max
The answer is: ernst
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Worshiper in a turban
The answer is: sikh
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Texter's qualifier
The answer is: imho
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(19)
Cries in a fútbol stadium
The answer is: oles
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(23)
Barter
The answer is: trade
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Roof overhangs
The answer is: eaves
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It may have a hard or soft shell
The answer is: taco
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Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons
The answer is: odors
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(27)
Paves the way?
The answer is: tars
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(32)
N.Y.C. subway letters
The answer is: mta
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Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper
The answer is: birch
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Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery
The answer is: natturner
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(36)
Spearfishing bird
The answer is: egret
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People of SW Britain
The answer is: welsh
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(39)
Without charge
The answer is: free
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The Emerald Isle
The answer is: eire
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(43)
Like skydiving or cliff-diving
The answer is: extreme
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(45)
Dashboard or bumper
The answer is: carpart
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(47)
Place to put a coin
The answer is: slot
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(49)
Coup d'___
The answer is: etat
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(50)
Joke with
The answer is: tease
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(51)
Like some wine barrels
The answer is: oaken
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___ and Clark
The answer is: lewis
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(53)
Familiar narrative device
The answer is: trope
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(54)
Leave dumbfounded
The answer is: stun
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French possessive
The answer is: ses
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(59)
Catch some rays
The answer is: tan
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Bizarre
The answer is: odd
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(61)
"Golly!"
The answer is: gee
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Poetic tribute
The answer is: ode
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