New Yorker Crossword May 18 2026 Answers (5/18/26)

Our New Yorker Crossword May 18, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue.

The New Yorker Crossword May 18, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 5/18/26, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	Whacks
5A	Monk who won a Guest Actress Emmy for her work on “NYPD Blue”
10A	Toughness in the face of adversity
14A	Brilliant display
15A	Word after human or fatal
16A	Melodic framework in Indian classical music
17A	Engagement parties?
19A	Tragic Trojan War hero in a Sophocles play
20A	Predetermined cost
21A	Privy to
23A	Major successor
24A	Language in the Uto-Aztecan family
28A	Forecasts
31A	Dominant
32A	Sight at a trendy restaurant
33A	“The Ten Commandments” actor Brynner
34A	Foods traditionally eaten on Candlemas, in France
35A	Australian shoe brand
36A	Components of some services
38A	Short records, briefly
39A	Spoke harshly?
41A	“Sugar, We’re Goin Down” genre
42A	Challenge
43A	Not suitable for all audiences
44A	Trapezoid type
46A	Classic Chrysler
48A	Rigs
49A	Old salts
50A	Site of a church to which Paul wrote two epistles
52A	Number of women on Forbes’s 2025 list of the world’s fifty highest-paid athletes
55A	Artist who painted himself as Goliath in “David with the Head of Goliath”
57A	Bounce off the walls
58A	Magnetron part
59A	“The Books of Jacob” author Tokarczuk
60A	Twelve
61A	Gray-brown butterfly with a mythological namesake
62A	Certain textile worker
1D	Small groups?
2D	Emergency-response force
3D	Extensive deli order?
4D	What a garage might be used for
5D	Totalled
6D	Mononymous Art Deco master
7D	“My man”
8D	American ___ (red-breasted birds)
9D	Play area?
10D	Bit
11D	Lara of the girl group Katseye
12D	2025 Wimbledon champion Świątek
13D	Duty
18D	Water carrier
22D	Midway alternative
25D	In a desirable way
26D	2006 film in which David Bowie played Nikola Tesla
27D	“Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses / For honest men and bonie ___”: Robert Burns
28D	Like gangbusters?
29D	“Dalla ___ pace” (“Don Giovanni” aria)
30D	Cary of “The Princess Bride”
34D	Go from rock to country, say
36D	Colorful fish
37D	“Odi et ___” (Catullus line meaning “I hate and I love”)
40D	Oscar-winning 1986 film whose soundtrack featured Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”
42D	No mere mortal
44D	Financial reporter Ron
45D	“The Phoenician Scheme” actor Michael
47D	Mammals with saddle patches
50D	Women’s-suffrage activist Elizabeth ___ Stanton
51D	Frost
52D	Koan-posing tradition
53D	“Foucault’s Pendulum” author
54D	Density symbol
56D	Balderdash