NYT Midi Crossword May 5, 2026 Answers (5/5/26)

Here are all of the answers to today's NYT Midi Crossword puzzle for May 5, 2026 to help you finish it up!

Our NYT Midi Crossword May 5, 2026 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The New York Times Midi Crossword is a medium sized version of the paper’s famous mini and daily crossword puzzle. The midi crossword is just as challenging as its bigger counterpart, but with fewer clues and a medium grid.

NYT Midi Crossword May 5, 2026 Answers

If you need help solving the NYT Midi Crossword on 5/5/26, 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 Ultra-manly
6A Airplane ___ (in-flight phone setting)
10A Old-timey dental anesthetic
11A Cooling lotion ingredient
12A [Tap, tap] "Is this thing on?"
14A "Let me think"
15A Historic period
16A Soup ingredient that is often removed before eating
20A Make invalid, as a marriage
23A Language suffix
24A Hustlers in a billiards hall
27A Workplace freebie
28A Sign after Pisces
29A Absolutely crush it, in slang
30A Cook slowly, as tomatoes
1D See-through dress fabric
2D Something about a million times smaller than a grain of sand
3D Buddy
4D Coop resident
5D Trials and tribulations
6D Taj ___
7D Shout from a flamenco dancer
8D One of the Seven Dwarfs
9D Scared reaction to a spider
13D "Summon" a new parent, maybe
16D Like oversized luggage
17D Spooky
18D Slightly crooked, as a picture frame
19D Spill the beans, with "up"
20D Venmo and Splitwise
21D Holiday tune
22D Ephron who wrote "When Harry Met Sally ..."
25D "Every dog ___ its day"
26D What DALL-E, OpenAI's text-to-image tool, can create

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If you’re still struggling to solve your NYT Crosswords, consider practicing with the Eugene Sheffer and Thomas Joseph dailies first. If you’re looking for similarly challenging crosswords, we recommend the WSJ Crossword and LA Times Crossword.

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