Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, April 5, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, April 5, 2026 features 138 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "DONTTOUCHTHATDIAL".
Total Clues
138
Longest
DONTTOUCHTHATDIAL
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
INN
Featured Clue
"<i>Our soap is deadly!</i>"
17 Letters
DONTTOUCHTHATDIAL
ALLComplete Solution List
They need fans to stay cool
5IDOLS
Philippine marinades
6ADOBOS
Second first lady, after Martha
7ABIGAIL
Cheap cigar
6STOGIE
Philippine capital
6MANILA
Contrition
7REMORSE
Prime-time time
6NINEPM
<i>We're literally giving away our rental cars!</i>
14FREEENTERPRISE
Resembling bone
7OSTEOID
Overnight option
3INN
Pull some strings?
5UNTIE
Phony social media follower
3BOT
<i>It hurts how much we're overcharging for this detergent!</i>
12NOPAINNOGAIN
Constitution
3USS
Winter measure
8SNOWFALL
"Nostalgia is a seductive ___": George W. Ball
4LIAR
Spider's pouch
6EGGSAC
Inappropriately appropriated
7USURPED
Crush a test
5ACEIT
Muse depicted with a lyre
5ERATO
Like raw footage
5UNCUT
Alexander ___, 1980s secretary of state
4HAIG
Competition with clowns, maybe
5RODEO
Showbiz "grand slam," familiarly
4EGOT
Scrooge's shout
3BAH
<i>Our planes don't have seats!</i>
13UNITEDWESTAND
Social worker
3ANT
Undertake, as a journey
7ENTERON
College admissions fig.
3GPA
Whence St. Francis
6ASSISI
Quite spirited
6RAHRAH
Bulletin board addition
7POSTING
A chair might cover one
6AGENDA
Place to store magazines
6ARMORY
Broody genre
3EMO
First college in the modern era to boast a 15-0 football team
7CLEMSON
Bump on the head, say?
3ZIT
<i>Our tech products fall apart easily!</i>
13APPLECRUMBLES
However, in texts
3THO
Sportsbook figures
4ODDS
Grinning Face With Sweat, for one
5EMOJI
Winnow
4PARE
Some exits in Exeter
5TATAS
Japanese healing discipline
5REIKI
Hägar the Horrible's dog
5SNERT
Like a wrung-out mop
7DAMPISH
Some commotion in a sheepfold
6BAAING
Rep.
4CRED
Most ridiculous
8GOOFIEST
Monopolist's portion
3ALL
<i>Our cable channel is devoted to censorship!</i>
12LIFETIMEBANS
Dripping, say
3WET
White's longtime co-host
5SAJAK
Many a book fair sponsor, for short
3PTA
[Look below for more info]
7SEENOTE
<i>Go ahead and shoplift one pair of our jeans!</i>
14JUSTTAKEAGUESS
Bolts down
6SCARFS
Home country of the Center for Civil Liberties, jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
7UKRAINE
Monkey's place, maybe
6BARREL
Article of jewelry worn around the biceps
6ARMLET
Erudite
7LEARNED
Stylishly elegant
6CLASSY
Shoe leather for Elvis
5SUEDE
This means "war"
6ITISON
<i>Our soap is deadly!</i>
17DONTTOUCHTHATDIAL
Serpentine shape in architecture
4OGEE
Certain cosmetic surgery, familiarly
4LIPO
High class?
7SEMINAR
Big letters in bowling
3AMF
Beavis and Butt-Head spinoff
5DARIA
Common soccer score
6ONENIL
Two-year periods
7BIENNIA
Common soccer cheer
3OLE
With 44-Down, home of the U.S.'s most-visited municipal zoo
3SAN
Rock music genre
5ARENA
Nickname for Britain's King Edward VII
6BERTIE
Encroach (on)
7IMPINGE
Horror movie staple
4GORE
Grande's perfume line
3ARI
Major research lab for astronauts, for short
3ISS
Actress Jamie __ Curtis
3LEE
Highfalutin sorts
5SNOBS
Yank
3TUG
Creature with a signature whistle it can use to identify itself
7DOLPHIN
Accordion fold
5PLEAT
Iridescent shell material
5NACRE
Dirt pie ingredients
5OREOS
<i>Our magazine hates everything and everyone!</i>
17USAGAINSTTHEWORLD
Squelched
5SATON
Michael ___, Steve Carell's role on "The Office"
5SCOTT
Sch. endearingly called "Wazzu"
3WSU
Animated TV series set in the 31st century
8FUTURAMA
LSAT alternative, for some law schools
3GRE
See 11-Down
5DIEGO
Lab label
5IDTAG
Afternoon socials
4TEAS
It'll take you for a ride
4UBER
Mama's mama
4NANA
Natl. economic yardsticks
4GDPS
Discounted
6ONSALE
Zero chance
6NOHOPE
Something well-taken?
5WATER
Chartreuse or brandy, e.g.
8DIGESTIF
Mess up
3ERR
Part of a sch. year
3SEM
Orange cone, say
5PYLON
No cause for alarm
4IMUP
Land rover
5NOMAD
Home of Qatar Airways
4DOHA
A long time in Spain
4ANOS
Tach stats
4RPMS
Sax player Clarence
7CLEMONS
"The Greek" in a 1964 film
5ZORBA
Optimal
5IDEAL
Emergency option for a fighter pilot
5EJECT
High wispy clouds
5CIRRI
Alice of TV's "Queen of the South"
5BRAGA
Manage moguls, say
3SKI
Expected
3ASI
Like many legal phrases
7INLATIN
Fried Japanese fare
7TEMPURA
Impersonates
7POSESAS
1997 Demi Moore military drama
6GIJANE
Hampers
6DETERS
Fixed rate
6SETFEE
Statistics tool used to find significant differences
5TTEST
Not real
5FAKED
___ out an existence
3EKE
They might be loaded or stolen
5BASES
Headliner
4STAR
Neutral tone
4ECRU
April or May, e.g.
4NAME
Q3 starter: Abbr.
3JUL
Luau instrument, in brief
3UKE
Mme., across the Pyrenees
3SRA
The Bachelor network
3ABC
Actress Gadot
3GAL
Foxy
3SLY