Newsday Crossword May 16 2026 Answers (5/16/26)

Our Newsday Crossword May 16, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Newsday Crossword is a syndicated crossword that is published across different apps and websites each day. It is one of the “easier” crosswords to work on compared to some of the heavy-hitters like the NYT Crossword.

There is a new puzzle to work through each day of the week. This crossword is considered to be balanced between being fun and engaging with some challenge but entirely solvable without tearing one’s hair out!

Newsday Crossword May 16, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the Newsday Crossword on 5/16/26, 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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« May 15 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Source for "kiwi"
6A	Be a bounder
10A	Person who's short and lacks credit
14A	Back up announcement
15A	Alberto, to amigos
16A	Moniker for those with no id
17A	Painted by number
19A	Particular people
20A	Misdirection metaphor
22A	Flatter, perhaps
23A	Sporty Swedish models of the '60s
24A	Coke and Sprite, to Coca-Cola
29A	Network interface
31A	Word on Iran's flag
32A	Gaming concern
34A	Gas __
36A	Rotation unit
37A	Younger man of Tacitus' time
38A	Questionable action?
39A	Reason to get hitched
40A	Cell starter
41A	Faerie Queene excerpt
42A	The heel of Arabia
44A	Help to be heroic
46A	Semolina with the sound of a Southeastern school city
48A	What talks need to be heard
49A	Person who grew up on the Oregon Trail
56A	Coop group
57A	Non-nutritive food for thought
58A	Call of the wild
59A	Big name in Rationalism and Mind-Body Dualism
60A	Animal with a "water" etymology
61A	Fully from the start
62A	Grows, with "to"
63A	Whom Cooper based Bumppo on
1D	Miniaturized hearing aids
2D	Half the alphabet
3D	City that thanks London with an annual Christmas tree
4D	Game piece that was a chariot long ago
5D	Graspable
6D	Delay, delay, delay
7D	He looted "three ships from Spain" in his "Ballad"
8D	They come with an agenda
9D	Where people work on their feet
10D	Aww-ful assessment
11D	Small time piece
12D	Big sports bet
13D	Sad ending
18D	Banjo bar
21D	Best Score Oscar nominee name for Gandhi
24D	Drop a line
25D	Product of fusion
26D	Detained, by definition
27D	Hair piece
28D	Rural footpath access
30D	Seasonal concern?
33D	They're quirky
35D	Tavern's light reading
37D	Shadow in the sky
38D	Lap up
40D	Titel fur Manner
41D	Inner ear
43D	Literally, "little mush"
45D	Panamanian well
47D	In a tangle
49D	Additional hearing
50D	Impend
51D	Hit the dirt
52D	Medal awarder "in service of peace and freedom"
53D	Eating up
54D	Gulf between two continents
55D	"I wish to tune my quivering __": Byron