New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 09/21/2026. The September 21 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
The puzzles get harder and harder to solve and more complex as the week passes You can search by clue name, number or direction for example for 2 Across clue just type '2A' or '2D' for 2nd down clue.
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- Across
- 1a Where Mongolia isASIA
- 5a Scaredy-catWIMP
- 9a Leafs (through)PAGES
- 14a Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer PrizeDAMN
- 15a Berry at a smoothie shopACAI
- 16a Company behind the game PongATARI
- 17a Mentally poopedTOOTIREDTOTHINK
- 20a 1960s service site, informallyNAM
- 21a Common injury site for a basketball player, informallyACL
- 22a Thick, as plant growthLUSH
- 23a Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an examTEACHTOTHETEST
- 28a Commercial that may come with a jingleRADIOAD
- 29a Took a chairSAT
- 30a EagerAVID
- 31a Hair parterCOMB
- 34a Continue a subscriptionRENEW
- 38a Barely passing gradeDEE
- 39a Decade of W.W. II … or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-AcrossFORTIES
- 41a Around 18, typically, for a high school graduateAGE
- 42a Sometimes-floral organic compoundESTER
- 44a Draped Indian garmentSARI
- 45a ___-X (computer command to cut text)CTRL
- 46a Crosses (out)XES
- 48a Conjures up, sayCREATES
- 50a “If I’m being honest …”TOTELLTHETRUTH
- 54a Cook, in a way, as ahi tunaSEAR
- 55a Opposite of ‘neathOER
- 56a Fools’ mo.APR
- 57a “A fight requires more than one person”TAKESTWOTOTANGO
- 63a “I’m available to help”USEME
- 64a Modern note-taking aidIPAD
- 65a Plant in a marshREED
- 66a Spanish babiesNENES
- 67a What a paper airplane icon may indicateSEND
- 68a Thing in a groveTREE
- Down
- 1d Big letters in home securityADT
- 2d ___ Paulo, BrazilSAO
- 3d Comment that might follow “None for me, thanks”IMONADIET
- 4d Relief for an upset stomachANTACID
- 5d Simple two-player card gameWAR
- 6d Drink coolerICE
- 7d Angry withMADAT
- 8d Throw from a moundPITCH
- 9d Butter squarePAT
- 10d Any OlympianATHLETE
- 11d First name of Julius CaesarGAIUS
- 12d Artist MaxERNST
- 13d Worshiper in a turbanSIKH
- 18d Texter’s qualifierIMHO
- 19d Cries in a fútbol stadiumOLES
- 23d BarterTRADE
- 24d Roof overhangsEAVES
- 25d It may have a hard or soft shellTACO
- 26d Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoonsODORS
- 27d Paves the way?TARS
- 32d N.Y.C. subway lettersMTA
- 33d Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paperBIRCH
- 35d Leader of an 1831 revolt against slaveryNATTURNER
- 36d Spearfishing birdEGRET
- 37d People of SW BritainWELSH
- 39d Without chargeFREE
- 40d The Emerald IsleEIRE
- 43d Like skydiving or cliff-divingEXTREME
- 45d Dashboard or bumperCARPART
- 47d Place to put a coinSLOT
- 49d Coup d’___ETAT
- 50d Joke withTEASE
- 51d Like some wine barrelsOAKEN
- 52d ___ and ClarkLEWIS
- 53d Familiar narrative deviceTROPE
- 54d Leave dumbfoundedSTUN
- 58d French possessiveSES
- 59d Catch some raysTAN
- 60d BizarreODD
- 61d “Golly!”GEE
- 62d Poetic tributeODE