Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, March 31, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "MAGICMOUNTAIN".
Total Clues
78
Longest
MAGICMOUNTAIN
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
UTE
Featured Clue
"Six Flags location that was the first amusement park to offer 20 roller coasters"
13 Letters
MAGICMOUNTAIN
ALLComplete Solution List
The Planets composer
5HOLST
About 746 of these equal one horsepower
5WATTS
Colorado Plateau people
3UTE
Sign in a TV studio
5ONAIR
Kirin competitor
5ASAHI
Something entered into an A.T.M.
3PIN
2003 crime drama adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel
11MYSTICRIVER
___ Bo (exercise regimen popularized via VHS tapes)
3TAE
List in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next"
4EXES
Direct (to)
5REFER
Middle-of-the-bell-curve result
4NORM
Swimmer in a Japanese garden
3KOI
Fled the scene
7RANAWAY
Six Flags location that was the first amusement park to offer 20 roller coasters
13MAGICMOUNTAIN
Chicken ___ king
3ALA
Admissions overseer, maybe
4DEAN
Stake
5WAGER
The "1" in a 9-1 record
4LOSS
Typeface that sounds like the name of a Disney princess
5ARIAL
___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America)
4DIRE
Attire in the old Roman Senate
5TOGAS
Sign of things to come
4OMEN
Crater's edge
3RIM
Concept explaining why certain humanoid robots look so unsettling
13UNCANNYVALLEY
Cloudy craft beer
7HAZYIPA
Mediator between the id and the ideal, in Freudian psychology
3EGO
Pasta that resembles rice
4ORZO
Knuckle-cracking or clipping nails in public, to some
5PEEVE
Hahaha!
4LMAO
Kenan's bestie on a 1990s sitcom
3KEL
Utopian expanse ... a map of which might include 17-, 27- and 48-Across?
11FANTASYLAND
French 101 article
3UNE
Something to raise in a crisis
5ALARM
Like flapjacks and Frisbees
5ROUND
Damage
3MAR
Censor, informally
5BLEEP
Undercover operatives
5SPIES
E.T. phone __
4HOME
Banded mineral seen at many a street fair
4ONYX
Produce coherent light
4LASE
Piece of equipment for a Winter Paralympian
6SITSKI
Muscle strengthened by dips, familiarly
3TRI
Ending with kitchen or earthen
4WARE
Dream on!
4ASIF
Establishment where a D&D party might refuel and pick up new leads
6TAVERN
What 2020 was a year of, in the Chinese zodiac
6THERAT
"Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" number)
3SIR
Billy Joel title character who's "been living in her white bread world"
10UPTOWNGIRL
Headwear for Wonder Woman
5TIARA
Antagonist
5ENEMY
Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014
6CRIMEA
Water nymph of Greek myth
5NAIAD
Anxious condition, in brief
3OCD
Rural turndown
3NAW
Soda fountain order
4MALT
Potatoes, in Indian cuisine
4ALOO
Vehicle with low fuel efficiency, in slang
10GASGUZZLER
Longboat propeller
3OAR
International Longshoremen's Association, e.g.
5UNION
Lake separating Ohio from Ontario
4ERIE
Rapper ___ Ma
4REMY
Panasonic acquisition of 2009
5SANYO
"Inside ___ Schumer" (sketch comedy series)
3AMY
Embankments protecting New Orleans
6LEVEES
Biol. or chem.
3SCI
One who's constantly telling you to do this and do that
3NAG
Horrify
6APPALL
2010s dance fad with a reduplicative name
6NAENAE
Bound along clumsily
6LOLLOP
Malarkey!
5HOKUM
Venue for a boss fight
5ARENA
French 101 verb
4ETRE
Extemporize to fill time, say
4VAMP
Hawaii's second largest island
4MAUI
Frank of diary fame
4ANNE
Bookie's determination
4ODDS
___ Five (advisers on "Queer Eye")
3FAB
Decade makeup: Abbr.
3YRS