New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 04/18/2026. The April 18 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a “The Jeffersons” or “The Simpsons,” notablySPINOFF
- 8a Team with the mascot Big Al, familiarlyBAMA
- 12a In timeSOONERORLATER
- 14a Dish purportedly invented in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo neighborhoodCALIFORNIAROLL
- 15a New York’s ___ ValleyHUDSON
- 16a ThawingDETENTE
- 17a TreatDOCTOR
- 18a New outfit or accessory for a character, in video game-speakMOD
- 19a Things that shouldn’t be hiddenFEES
- 20a Non-eco-friendly refrigerantFREON
- 21a Term in the bedroom, maybeSAFEWORD
- 23a UniteWED
- 24a Two-prongedDUAL
- 26a Metros in the 1990sGEOS
- 27a “Wait just a sec”HANGTIGHT
- 29a Cowboy’s friend, informallyPARD
- 30a Name that spiked in popularity following a 2013 Disney movieELSA
- 31a FinalizedSET
- 34a “You’ve got nothing to worry about”RESTEASY
- 36a All-time scoring leader for the Miami Heat, familiarlyDWADE
- 38a Routine surfacesMATS
- 39a Browns, on a scoreboardCLE
- 40a Mathematics writer GardnerMARTIN
- 41a Words of endorsementIMFORIT
- 43a ArrivedMADEIT
- 44a Make-believe sorrowCROCODILETEARS
- 46a Cause of amusement to a vet, maybeROOKIEMISTAKE
- 47a Daredevil’s calculationODDS
- 48a Some fairy tale charactersDAMSELS
- Down
- 1d Did business with, in a waySOLDTO
- 2d Blowgun projectilePOISONDART
- 3d Words before “a penny” or “a treat”INFOR
- 4d Fifth-most abundant element in the universeNEON
- 5d Lieutenant in “Catch-22”ORR
- 6d IntoFONDOF
- 7d Breakfast dish that might go over well?FRIEDEGGS
- 8d How people get into a swimming pool, typicallyBAREFOOT
- 9d Yom Kippur observersATONERS
- 10d Like the cheese in fondueMELTED
- 11d Backdrop for many van Gogh paintingsARLES
- 12d BlitzedSAUCED
- 13d ___ pull-downs (exercise)LAT
- 14d Item in a list on the fridge, maybeCHORE
- 17d Texas air hub, for shortDFW
- 18d Silky-haired toyMALTESE
- 21d Start to giveSAG
- 22d “Hey, no backing out now!”WEHADADEAL
- 25d Still wafflingUNDECIDED
- 27d Relatives of ottomansHASSOCKS
- 28d Texter’s affectionate sign-offILY
- 29d It’s not fit for human consumptionPETFOOD
- 31d Cutting stuffSATIRE
- 32d Cuts a line?EDITS
- 33d It takes two hands to showTEN
- 34d Musketeer’s toolRAMROD
- 35d Nissan modelALTIMA
- 37d Brings about, as havocWREAKS
- 38d Less than milli-, more than nano-MICRO
- 40d Paint optionMATTE
- 42d Metric for a venture capitalist, in briefROI
- 43d Play (with)MESS
- 45d Calc. calculationLIM