Midi Crossword 05/09/2026. Over forty clues were solved by us and displayed below, please check them out to solve your hard clues.
The New York Times MIdi puzzles are, as the name suggests, medium crossword puzzles. Suitable for those for whom the Main is too complex and the Mini is too easy. The middle puzzle is the perfect balance for those looking for time passer game not too hard not to easy.
Across →
- 1a Hunchbacked creatures in “The Lord of the Rings”ORCS
- 5a “Delicious!”YUM
- 8a ___ 66 (iconic 2,278-mile highway)ROUTE
- 10a Clickable greeting in an inboxECARD
- 13a Pull out all the stopsGOBIG
- 14a Green gunk in a fish tankALGAE
- 15a “Very grateful for your help!”MANYTHANKS
- 17a Student’s statGPA
- 18a Exclamation that aptly rhymes with “shriek”EEK
- 19a “I’ll get this meal”MYTREAT
- 22a Day, in SpanishDIA
- 24a TimewornOLD
- 25a Statements that lack substance … or, when read phonetically, a description of the spoken phrases at 15- and 19-Across?EMPTYTALK
- 29a Absolute ___ (operation represented by |x|)VALUE
- 30a Prongs of a fork or a kalimbaTINES
- 33a Segment of a movieSCENE
- 34a Rechargeable two-wheeled vehicleEBIKE
- 35a Where a 33-Across might be filmedSET
- 36a Dish like gumboSTEW
Down ↓
- 1d Alternative to .com or .netORG
- 2d Hotel unitROOM
- 3d Big cigar-exporting nationCUBA
- 4d Unwilling to spend muchSTINGY
- 5d “Uh-huh”YEAH
- 6d Sch. near HollywoodUCLA
- 7d Calendar holder on a refrigeratorMAGNET
- 9d Cairo’s countryEGYPT
- 11d Tool for collecting fallen leavesRAKE
- 12d A student might be assigned one in a classroomDESK
- 16d Fortuneteller’s card deckTAROT
- 19d Trees that are sources of syrupMAPLES
- 20d Make super happyELATE
- 21d Lines not in the scriptADLIBS
- 22d Software coders, informallyDEVS
- 23d Powerful Apple computerIMAC
- 26d Something to whistle or humTUNE
- 27d Forcefully throw, in modern lingoYEET
- 28d Work with needles and yarnKNIT
- 31d Barely manage, with “out”EKE
- 32d Work with needle and threadSEW