New Yorker Crossword May 4 2026 Answers (5/4/26)

Our New Yorker Crossword May 4, 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 4, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the New Yorker Crossword on 5/4/26, 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	#
6A	Garment sized according to volume
9A	Joyce Carol Oates novel that depicts the effects of violence on a Detroit family
13A	Alternative to plastic, at a bar
16A	Allocate stars to
17A	Question to see whether someone’s down
18A	Come up against
19A	Like street lights designed to lessen ecological damage
20A	Overdone
21A	Derisive
22A	Flour used to make injera
23A	Defendant in a noteworthy 2000 copyright case
25A	Sign off on
27A	Run again
28A	Muscular
29A	They’re full of stories
33A	Ancient civilization that manufactured rubber balls
34A	Alternative to 😱, maybe
35A	Word from the Inuit for “house”
36A	Inexplicable behavior, improbable coincidences, etc.
38A	Light crackers
39A	Helpers, so to speak
40A	Covers for 39-Across
41A	Hormonal IUDs bigger than Skylas
44A	Matter measure
45A	Very unlikely to react
46A	Nacreous material
48A	Significant other
51A	Toni Morrison’s second novel
52A	Gem created in a pressurized chamber
54A	Hip-hop subgenre pioneered in Atlanta
55A	Subject of some personal boundary-setting
56A	“Know that I kept it ___, you know I kept it fun” (Beyoncé lyric)
57A	“Gloria in Excelsis ___”
58A	Low areas
1D	Play-fight by fluttering, as chickens do
2D	___ Krishna
3D	Did an impression of
4D	Character introduced in “The Force Awakens”
5D	“No justice, no peace,” for one
6D	Charli XCX album associated with lime green
7D	Soy-flavored soup toppings with jammy insides
8D	Floor
9D	Cause for the activist Miss Major
10D	It’s good to kick a bad one
11D	Exercise at the keyboard
12D	Poem’s rhythmic structure
14D	Travels overseas?
15D	Letters delivered at the end of the week?
21D	Board game in which forces of nature attempt to prevent a colonial invasion
22D	Tech support?
24D	Ooh and ___
25D	Member of a nineteen-nineties dynasty
26D	Vehicle in which Miranda Priestly says, “Everybody wants to be us”
27D	LeAnn who appears as herself in “Coyote Ugly”
28D	Catchy song
29D	Be present without judging, idiomatically
30D	Cat or crocodile’s pupil
31D	There have been four, including the Hadean
32D	“Rescue me from this bad date!”
37D	“Snakes ___ Plane”
40D	“Three Strong Women” author NDiaye
41D	Gives a fine coating, in a way
42D	Accustom
43D	Loosen up
44D	Put together
47D	Hip-hop radio host Darden
48D	Let off steam?
49D	Follower of “Rain” or “Take” in songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100
50D	Works requiring dedication?
52D	What takes Michael Pollan on the first trip of his “travelogue” in “How to Change Your Mind”
53D	It’s responsible for the N and C in N.Y.C.