New York Times Crossword Puzzle Answers Today 05/18/2026. The May 18 2026 Puzzle Answers are listed below in such order that they are easy to find.
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- Across
- 1a Like a game that has gone into a penalty shootoutTIED
- 5a Luxury handbag brandPRADA
- 10a Petri dish gelAGAR
- 14a West Coast sch. that joined the Big Ten in 2024UCLA
- 15a Stereotypical meal for a college studentRAMEN
- 16a “Veni, ___, vici”VIDI
- 17a Like the Code of HammurabiBABYLONIAN
- 19a Enterprise rivalAVIS
- 20a Got to one’s feetAROSE
- 21a Elmer’s productGLUE
- 23a “There’s a cockroach!”EEK
- 24a Patch up some clothes, saySEW
- 25a Pioneering hybrid carTOYOTAPRIUS
- 29a Pouty expressionMOUE
- 30a Future atty.’s examLSAT
- 31a Rae who played President Barbie in “Barbie”ISSA
- 34a Tackling of the quarterbackSACK
- 37a Nebraska’s largest cityOMAHA
- 40a Governing body in the Harry Potter universeMINISTRYOFMAGIC
- 43a Fibrous part of broccoliSTALK
- 44a Nothin’NADA
- 45a Cool, slangilyDOPE
- 46a “___ Calm and Carry On”KEEP
- 48a RegionAREA
- 50a Gardener’s toolWEEDWHACKER
- 54a Kit ___ barKAT
- 57a Woodcutter’s toolAXE
- 58a Beauty queen’s accessorySASH
- 59a Garlicky condimentAIOLI
- 61a Eye irritationSTYE
- 63a Advice for the overambitious … or a hint to 17-, 25-, 40- and 50-AcrossSTARTSMALL
- 66a ___ leches cakeTRES
- 67a OopsieERROR
- 68a Lotion ingredientALOE
- 69a Toward sunriseEAST
- 70a “Same!”SODOI
- 71a Stereotypically antisocial petsCATS
- Down
- 1d Large brass instrumentsTUBAS
- 2d “You have my sympathy”ICARE
- 3d Macaroni shapeELBOW
- 4d 14 of these make up a fortnightDAYS
- 5d Con’s oppositePRO
- 6d SprintedRAN
- 7d Friend in MexicoAMIGO
- 8d Gave out cardsDEALT
- 9d Zinnia or sunflowerANNUAL
- 10d Director DuVernayAVA
- 11d Attempt somethingGIVEITAGO
- 12d “Au revoir!”ADIEU
- 13d Puts on the lineRISKS
- 18d Oscar winner JaredLETO
- 22d English town famous for its saltsEPSOM
- 26d Throw out of officeOUST
- 27d Long (for)YEARN
- 28d Holiday Inn competitorRAMADA
- 29d Sent by postMAILED
- 31d Writes to on WhatsApp, in briefIMS
- 32d Puppy school commandSIT
- 33d Roll of two onesSNAKEEYES
- 35d “Ta-ta,” in a textCYA
- 36d Camera company known for its “moments”KODAK
- 38d With itHIP
- 39d Unreturned serveACE
- 41d Distorts, as dataSKEWS
- 42d Ticket priceFARE
- 47d The “terrible twos” and the “threenager” years, for examplePHASES
- 49d Chapters of historyERAS
- 50d SquanderWASTE
- 51d Outlandishly over the top, in modern slangEXTRA
- 52d Houston baseballerASTRO
- 53d Swiss ___ (salad green)CHARD
- 54d Marsupial often mistermed a “bear”KOALA
- 55d ApportionALLOT
- 56d There are 100 of these in every Scrabble gameTILES
- 60d Apple desktopIMAC
- 62d Superlative suffixEST
- 64d Down Under bounder, for shortROO
- 65d Prefix between bi- and tetra-TRI