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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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NYT Crossword Answers for 28 April 2026
Across
1. Sore
ACHY
5. Nail polish brand
OPI
8. Some cantina fare
TACOS
13. "Hip hip hooray!," e.g.
CHEER
15. Sink-or-swim competition?
WATERPOLO
17. Handles a few unresolved issues
TIESUPLOOSEENDS
19. Like tears
SALINE
20. Site to build on
LOT
21. Gossip, slangily
TEA
22. Build on
ADDTO
24. Welcome at the door, say
ASKIN
27. Linguist's concern
GRAMMAR
30. Serious in manner
STERN
31. Bagel topping
LOX
32. Not perfect, but acceptable
CLOSEENOUGH
36. Bickering
ATIT
38. Blade that's pulled
OAR
39. Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin
CIAO
40. Station set up in a kitchen
MISEENPLACE
45. Bit of intel
TIP
46. Coins of Cuba
PESOS
47. Ingredients in some tropical smoothies
PAPAYAS
49. Foreign Service assignments
POSTS
50. Madrid mister
SENOR
51. Church seat
PEW
52. Promise to pay
IOU
54. Journalist, informally
SCRIBE
58. Like children, ideally, in an old adage … or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across
SEENANDNOTHEARD
62. Rigorous
STRINGENT
63. Astronomer Carl
SAGAN
64. Irritable
TESTY
65. [As written]
SIC
66. Civil rights activist Parks
ROSA
Down
1. Play parts
ACTS
2. Kind of seed or pet
CHIA
3. Sometimes-raised part of a shoe
HEEL
4. Emphatic confirmation
YESIAM
5. Nocturnal hooter
OWL
6. Painter Veronese
PAOLO
7. Langston Hughes poem
ITOO
8. Due + 1
TRE
9. Mimic
APE
10. Script supervisor's concern
CONTINUITY
11. ___ days
OLDEN
12. Slugger Sammy
SOSA
14. "Raising Hell" rap trio
RUNDMC
16. Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project)
ESTATE
18. Part of a piano or loom
PEDAL
23. Boots on the ground
TROOPS
25. Rep.'s counterpart
SEN
26. Ray of McDonald's
KROC
27. Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally
GLAM
28. Naan alternative
ROTI
29. Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II
AXISPOWERS
30. Mexican wrap
SERAPE
33. Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail
SAL
34. Greek goddess of the earth
GAIA
35. Brewing need
HOPS
37. They help you drive farther
TEES
41. Ballpark fig.
EST
42. Snooping (around)
NOSING
43. "___ thou not minister to a mind diseased …?": Macbeth
CANST
44. Significant periods
EPOCHS
48. Overdue debt
ARREAR
49. Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney
PEETE
50. Islam's largest branch
SUNNI
51. Alternative to a tap on the shoulder
PSST
53. Works of praise
ODES
55. "Othello" villain
IAGO
56. Some supports
BRAS
57. ___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking"
EDNA
59. Minor complaint
NIT
60. Unspecified amount
ANY
61. Not Rx
OTC
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