NYT Crossword#23892
Monday, April 20, 2026
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NYT Crossword Answers for 20 April 2026

Across

1. Solicit with a goodie

TEMPT

6. School support grps.

PTAS

10. Egyptian cobra

ASP

13. Well-informed

AWARE

14. Teaser, for short

PROMO

15. Word before Kim, Wayne or Nas X in hip-hop names

LIL

16. Low red card in a deck

TWOOFHEARTS

18. George Gershwin's lyricist brother

IRA

19. Window shades

BLINDS

20. Follow orders

OBEY

21. Locomotives, to kids

CHOOCHOOTRAINS

25. Comic figure at a circus

CLOWN

26. "Impressive!"

OOH

27. Stir up, as waters

ROIL

28. "The worst!"

THISSUCKS

34. ___-backward

ASS

35. Walk wearily

TRAIPSE

37. ___-Magnon (early human)

CRO

38. City and its surroundings

METROAREA

40. German refusal

NEIN

41. Alternative to .com or .edu

ORG

42. Ridiculous

SILLY

43. "Don't mention it — it was easy"

NOTROUBLEATALL

50. "Just doin' my job"

ITRY

51. Insect with pincers

EARWIG

52. X, for a sorority

CHI

53. "I need to use the bathroom" … or what the shaded squares spell?

NATURECALLS

58. Skirt feature

HEM

59. Decorations around the United Nations

FLAGS

60. "Sauer" hot dog topping

KRAUT

61. Triage sites, for short

ERS

62. Mascara coats one

LASH

63. Full of know-how

SAVVY

Down

1. Butterfly on the ankle, say, informally

TAT

2. "Gross!"

EWW

3. Chinese revolutionary

MAO

4. Football all-star game

PROBOWL

5. Cookware coating

TEFLON

6. National museum in Madrid

PRADO

7. Trunk for a sculptor to sculpt

TORSO

8. Fig. from an out-of-order ATM?

AMT

9. ...---... in Morse

SOS

10. Cover story, in court

ALIBI

11. Sound that warns of a tornado

SIREN

12. What coins are exchanged for at an arcade

PLAYS

14. Phnom ___, Cambodia's capital

PENH

17. Kool-Aid rival

HIC

20. Site of Pearl Harbor

OAHU

21. Not far away

CLOSE

22. Lift

HOIST

23. Throw (out)

TOSS

24. Valentine's Day flower

ROSE

25. Stow tightly, with "in"

CRAM

28. Cigarette substance

TAR

29. Move in a hurry, old-style

HIE

30. Many a craft beer, for short

IPA

31. Medium-sized battery

CCELL

32. Filtered food for whales

KRILL

33. PlayStation maker

SONY

35. Matador charger

TORO

36. Pasta sauce brand

RAGU

39. Golfer McIlroy

RORY

40. Big U.S./Canada falls

NIAGARA

42. (The) boondocks

STICKS

43. Specialty

NICHE

44. Catchall survey option

OTHER

45. Cuts at the margins

TRIMS

46. Apps undergoing testing

BETAS

47. "Sometimes you just gotta ___"

LAUGH

48. Flubs

ERRS

49. Slack-jawed feeling

AWE

53. Grp. for the Jets and Jaguars

NFL

54. In the style of

ALA

55. Bathroom, informally

LAV

56. Sweetie, to Brits

LUV

57. Total dump

STY

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