NYT Crossword hints and answer for April 15, 2026
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Clues74
Across37
Down37
ConstructorAdam Wagner
Today’s NYT Crossword clues, hints & answers
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Across
1A
Playbill groups (5)
Starts with C, ends with SCASTS→
6A
"He's very modest — he has a lot to be modest about," e.g. (4)
Starts with G, ends with EGIBE→
10A
Like an enthusiast (4)
Starts with A, ends with DAVID→
14A
Tokyo-based brewery (5)
Starts with A, ends with IASAHI→
15A
Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments (4)
Starts with O, ends with EOBOE→
16A
Snackable seaweed (4)
Starts with N, ends with INORI→
17A
Put all the bold letters in this clue together? (10)
Starts with M, ends with KMAKEASTINK→
19A
Aussie greeting (4)
Starts with G, ends with YGDAY→
20A
Paper view? (4)
Starts with O, ends with DOPED→
21A
One reason to pucker up (4)
Starts with K, ends with SKISS→
22A
Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day (3)
Starts with E, ends with KELK→
23A
Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work) (4)
Starts with E, ends with MEDAM→
25A
How two people might walk (7)
Starts with A, ends with TABREAST→
29A
Put all the bold letters in this clue together? (14)
Starts with C, ends with RCREATEAMONSTER→
32A
Get into a get-up (6)
Starts with C, ends with ECLOTHE→
33A
Mamá's boy (4)
Starts with N, ends with ONINO→
34A
Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics (3)
Starts with O, ends with OORO→
35A
"Dagnabbit!" (4)
Starts with R, ends with SRATS→
36A
Sheriff's backup (5)
Starts with P, ends with EPOSSE→
38A
Tech review site (4)
Starts with C, ends with TCNET→
39A
"I love," in Italian and Spanish (3)
Starts with A, ends with OAMO→
40A
Veg out in a spa? (4)
Starts with C, ends with ECUKE→
41A
Works out, say (6)
Starts with T, ends with STRAINS→
43A
Put all the bold letters in this clue together? (14)
Starts with F, ends with EFORMANALLIANCE→
46A
Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s (7)
Starts with T, ends with YTROTSKY→
47A
Longtime Yankee nickname (4)
Starts with A, ends with DAROD→
48A
"___ to the West Wind" (3)
Starts with O, ends with EODE→
49A
Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESKYE→
51A
"It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric) (4)
Starts with Y, ends with AYMCA→
55A
Presidential power (4)
Starts with V, ends with OVETO→
57A
Put all the bold letters in this clue together? (10)
Starts with B, ends with RBUILDABEAR→
59A
Blizzard ingredient (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOREO→
60A
English singer Parks (4)
Starts with A, ends with OARLO→
61A
Potato-based Hanukkah serving (5)
Starts with L, ends with ELATKE→
62A
Heartfelt, say (4)
Starts with W, ends with MWARM→
63A
Cat's cry (4)
Starts with M, ends with WMEOW→
64A
Parts of a copse (5)
Starts with T, ends with STREES→
Down
1D
Hunter's attire, informally (4)
Starts with C, ends with OCAMO→
2D
"Like, now!" (4)
Starts with A, ends with PASAP→
3D
Drink that's often served hot in the winter (4)
Starts with S, ends with ESAKE→
4D
When and where, in slang (8)
Starts with T, ends with STHEDEETS→
5D
One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable" (3)
Starts with S, ends with ASIA→
6D
The moment of truth (6)
Starts with G, ends with EGOTIME→
7D
Bird with a long, downward-curving bill (4)
Starts with I, ends with SIBIS→
8D
Brest besties (8)
Starts with B, ends with SBONSAMIS→
9D
"Holy cannoli!" (3)
Starts with E, ends with KEEK→
10D
Geometers' calculations (6)
Starts with A, ends with SANGLES→
11D
Clear cocktail often served with lime (10)
Starts with V, ends with CVODKATONIC→
12D
Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n (3)
Starts with I, ends with AIRA→
13D
Like some remodels, for short (3)
Starts with D, ends with YDIY→
18D
Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41 (9)
Starts with S, ends with KSKATEPUNK→
22D
Toy inventer Rubik (4)
Starts with E, ends with OERNO→
24D
Bit of Morse code (3)
Starts with D, ends with HDAH→
26D
Completely beat (9)
Starts with B, ends with DBONETIRED→
27D
Like a glassy lake (6)
Starts with S, ends with ESERENE→
28D
Puts on display, with "out" (5)
Starts with T, ends with STROTS→
29D
Tumult (6)
Starts with C, ends with RCLAMOR→
30D
Big name in plumbing (10)
Starts with R, ends with RROTOROOTER→
31D
Photographer Adams (5)
Starts with A, ends with LANSEL→
32D
Woodworking or glass blowing (5)
Starts with C, ends with TCRAFT→
37D
"All right, I'm convinced" (8)
Starts with O, ends with EOKAYSURE→
38D
Milky Way or Mars (8)
Starts with C, ends with RCANDYBAR→
40D
Suit, e.g. (4)
Starts with C, ends with ECASE→
42D
Indian P.M. of the 1990s (3)
Starts with R, ends with ORAO→
44D
Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings" (6)
Starts with M, ends with MMTDOOM→
45D
Tried not to draw attention (6)
Starts with L, ends with WLAYLOW→
50D
Letter between Juliet and Lima (4)
Starts with K, ends with OKILO→
52D
Dole (out) (4)
Starts with M, ends with EMETE→
53D
Order for a wedding reception (4)
Starts with C, ends with ECAKE→
54D
One of the Twelve Olympians (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARES→
55D
Promise (3)
Starts with V, ends with WVOW→
56D
Pitching stat (3)
Starts with E, ends with AERA→
57D
Comic book onomatopoeia (3)
Starts with B, ends with MBAM→
58D
Music genre prefix (3)
Starts with A, ends with TALT→
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How many clues are in the NYT Crossword for April 15, 2026?+
74 clues: 37 Across and 37 Down. The puzzle was constructed by Adam Wagner and edited by Will Shortz.
What are some answers in today’s NYT Crossword?+
For example: Playbill groups (CASTS); "He's very modest — he has a lot to be modest about," e.g. (GIBE); Like an enthusiast (AVID).
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