NYT Crossword April 15 2026 Answers (4/15/26)

Our NYT Crossword April 15, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The NYT Crossword is a daily puzzle that tests solvers’ knowledge and vocabulary. It’s one of the most popular crosswords in the world, known for its challenging clues and clever wordplay. The puzzle is published in the print edition of The New York Times and is also available online.

NYT Crossword April 15, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the NYT Crossword on 4/15/26, 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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« April 14 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Playbill groups
6A	"He's very modest - he has a lot to be modest about," e.g.
10A	Like an enthusiast
14A	Tokyo-based brewery
15A	Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments
16A	Snackable seaweed
17A	Put all the bold letters in this clue together?
19A	Aussie greeting
20A	Paper view?
21A	One reason to pucker up
22A	Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day
23A	Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work)
25A	How two people might walk
29A	Put all the bold letters in this clue together?
32A	Get into a get-up
33A	Mamá's boy
34A	Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics
35A	"Dagnabbit!"
36A	Sheriff's backup
38A	Tech review site
39A	"I love," in Italian and Spanish
40A	Veg out in a spa?
41A	Works out, say
43A	Put all the bold letters in this clue together?
46A	Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s
47A	Longtime Yankee nickname
48A	"___ to the West Wind"
49A	Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides
51A	"It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric)
55A	Presidential power
57A	Put all the bold letters in this clue together?
59A	Blizzard ingredient
60A	English singer Parks
61A	Potato-based Hanukkah serving
62A	Heartfelt, say
63A	Cat's cry
64A	Parts of a copse
1D	Hunter's attire, informally
2D	"Like, now!"
3D	Drink that's often served hot in the winter
4D	When and where, in slang
5D	One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable"
6D	The moment of truth
7D	Bird with a long, downward-curving bill
8D	Brest besties
9D	"Holy cannoli!"
10D	Geometers' calculations
11D	Clear cocktail often served with lime
12D	Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n
13D	Like some remodels, for short
18D	Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41
22D	Toy inventer Rubik
24D	Bit of Morse code
26D	Completely beat
27D	Like a glassy lake
28D	Puts on display, with "out"
29D	Tumult
30D	Big name in plumbing
31D	Photographer Adams
32D	Woodworking or glass blowing
37D	"All right, I'm convinced"
38D	Milky Way or Mars
40D	Suit, e.g.
42D	Indian P.M. of the 1990s
44D	Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings"
45D	Tried not to draw attention
50D	Letter between Juliet and Lima
52D	Dole (out)
53D	Order for a wedding reception
54D	One of the Twelve Olympians
55D	Promise
56D	Pitching stat
57D	Comic book onomatopoeia
58D	Music genre prefix

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