NYT Crossword May 14 2026 Answers (5/14/26)

Our NYT Crossword May 14, 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 May 14, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the NYT Crossword on 5/14/26, 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 13 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Cliff formed by a fault
6A	Avoided a tag, say
10A	Penultimate Greek letter
13A	"My fault entirely"
14A	Taste perception first identified in 1908
15A	Physics unit named for a physicist
16A	Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997
18A	Confucian "way"
19A	Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes
20A	Impression on some fancy sheets
22A	Puente of "The Mambo Kings"
23A	Traveled path
24A	At sea, say
27A	Powerful fireboat gear
30A	Rationalist's theology
31A	Decree
32A	Part of an analogy
33A	"___'s da breaks!"
34A	Lovestruck
37A	Flesh and blood
38A	Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword
40A	Direction to bow, in music
41A	Squeezing (out)
43A	Gets bloated, say
45A	Pair for a pool
46A	Ruthless Athenian lawgiver
47A	Tidy up, in a way
48A	What collects in a puddle
49A	Things often getting free refills
54A	Simile segment
55A	Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations
57A	___ Friday
58A	Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"
59A	Heather genus that's also a woman's name
60A	Good periods
61A	Former small-sized G.M. cars
62A	Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters
1D	Anatomical containers
2D	Thicken
3D	Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu
4D	September to April, in the oyster industry
5D	Alternatives to hourly wages
6D	Ecological concern
7D	Trellis piece
8D	"If u ask me"
9D	Gossip about, informally
10D	A peeling that's appealing?
11D	Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism
12D	Reassuring reply
14D	"That … ain't it"
17D	Essence
21D	Certain tax-free bond, informally
23D	Velocity, e.g.
24D	Relatively unusual
25D	Had to have right away
26D	Races against the clock
27D	Travel by pick-up?
28D	"The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman
29D	Strains to hear?
31D	Hemlock relatives
35D	Hand, at a hacienda
36D	Group with a satellite truck
39D	Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu
42D	Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name
44D	Ancient book of divination
45D	Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species
47D	Presaging disaster
48D	Meaty pasta sauce
49D	Long lunch?
50D	Get ahead of
51D	Cut and paste, e.g.
52D	Force through a food mill
53D	Go way up
56D	Uprooting tool

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The New York Times crossword was first published in The New York Times in 1942 and has been a daily feature ever since. It is known for its high level of difficulty and for its clever, often playful, clues and themes. The puzzles range in size from 15x15 grids on weekdays to larger 21x21 grids on Sundays, with varying levels of difficulty.

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