Midi Crossword 08/20/2026. Over thirty 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 Breakfast food chainIHOP
- 5a Big ___, Sesame Street resident with a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameBIRD
- 9a Magician’s exclamationTADA
- 10a Smoothie bowl berryACAI
- 11a Mix, as soupSTIR
- 12a Facial feature stroked when thinking, perhapsCHIN
- 13a Eating between lunch and dinner, saySNACKING
- 15a Barbell units: Abbr.LBS
- 16a “It’s safe to enter”ALLCLEAR
- 21a Neo-soul singer India.___ARIE
- 22a Vocalist who might sing the middle part in a harmonyALTO
- 23a Web programmer’s codeHTML
- 24a See 4-DownPLAY
- 25a “Agreed,” at seaAYE
- 26a “When I’m feeling ___, I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad!” (lyric from “The Sound of Music”)SAD
Down ↓
- 1d “___ the hard-knock life”ITS
- 2d Hard ___ (head protectors)HATS
- 3d Thor’s dadODIN
- 4d With 24-Across, alone-together activity … or a hint to the arrangement of this puzzle’s circled lettersPARALLEL
- 5d Encouraging touches from teammatesBACKSLAPS
- 6d One, in JapaneseICHI
- 7d Umbrella weatherRAIN
- 8d Bit of minor car damageDING
- 14d North-of-the-border TV networkCBC
- 16d BohemianARTY
- 17d Light greenLIME
- 18d Jazz legend FitzgeraldELLA
- 19d SlightlyATAD
- 20d ___ G. Biv (rainbow mnemonic)ROY
- 21d Exclamation during a “light bulb moment”AHA