Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, April 8, 2026 features 79 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.1 letters. The longest answer is "STANZACHANCE".
Total Clues
79
Longest
STANZACHANCE
Avg Length
5.1
Shortest
DIN
Featured Clue
"Opportunity for a choral understudy?"
12 Letters
STANZACHANCE
ALLComplete Solution List
"I'm afraid not," quaintly
6ALASNO
Food brand for Fido
4ALPO
Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr.
4INTL
Cash in
6REDEEM
Avocado dip, informally
4GUAC
Take a risk
4DARE
Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale?
11CODASILENCE
Keenly interested
4AVID
Shakespearean "soon"
4ANON
That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"?
11SONATATHING
Commotion
3DIN
Measure of college readiness, for short
4PSAT
Knuckled rub to the scalp
6NOOGIE
Publishing house workers: Abbr.
3EDS
Goal
3AIM
Wood-shaping hand tool
4RASP
Tagging symbols
3ATS
__-Magnon
3CRO
Vegas opener
3LAS
Perry of pop
4KATY
Opportunity for a choral understudy?
12STANZACHANCE
Belgrade native
4SERB
"Beats me," in a text
3IDK
Caviar, essentially
3ROE
Miss Piggy, for one
3SOW
Assns.
4ORGS
Extended comedic riff
3BIT
Hindi for "rule"
3RAJ
Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot"
6OLEOLE
Girl, in Glasgow
4LASS
Alias initialism
3AKA
When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis?
11FORZAMOMENT
Groovy, man!
4IDIG
Popular flavor of bubble tea
4TARO
"What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.?
11ARIAKIDDING
Volunteer's offer
4ICAN
Hits hard
4RAMS
Respond, as a pupil might
6DILATE
Ending with kitchen
4ETTE
Painter Paul
4KLEE
Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4
6EMINOR
Covered passageway
6ARCADE
Meteor in a November shower
6LEONID
Enhancing accessories
6ADDONS
Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films
4SEAN
Original Super Mario Bros. console
3NES
Oversight
8OMISSION
Author's representative
5AGENT
Moon over Managua
4LUNA
___ Treaty
4PACT
What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have
6OCEANS
The Gem State
5IDAHO
Find one's way.
8NAVIGATE
Dublin college founded in 1592
7TRINITY
Apartment planter sites, perhaps
6LEDGES
Good gardening soil
4LOAM
Traditional samurai hairstyles
8TOPKNOTS
Graph of y = ax2 + bx + c, for example
8PARABOLA
Frame for a game of pool
4RACK
Forehead marking at the start of Lent
3ASH
Convention bldg., in a mailing address
3CTR
Dudes, in British English
4LADS
Big name in hardware stores
3ACE
Underground scurrier
8SEWERRAT
Half of a darting motion
3ZIG
Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader
8ARISTIDE
One-man band, for example
7SOLOACT
Sentimental sort
6SOFTIE
Comment
6REMARK
Make ___ (earn vast sums)
4BANK
Unit of angular measurement
6RADIAN
Like
6AKINTO
Rolling Stones frontman
6JAGGER
Absorber of UV light
5OZONE
Charter
5LEASE
Word with cavity or contraceptive
4ORAL
One acting rather quiet?
4MIME
Savory South Asian rice cake
4IDLI
Lower, as lights
3DIM