Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, April 12, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, April 12, 2026 features 136 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.5 letters. The longest answer is "MAILORDERBRIDES".
Total Clues
136
Longest
MAILORDERBRIDES
Avg Length
5.5
Shortest
LOW
Featured Clue
"MOB wives?"
15 Letters
MAILORDERBRIDES
ALLComplete Solution List
Words ___ Friends
4WITH
Dunderheads
5DOLTS
Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida
4CUBA
Reduce to a pulp
4MASH
Actress ___ Grace Moretz
5CHLOE
"The game's ___": Henry V
5AFOOT
Mystery writer?
4ANON
Soothing succulent
4ALOE
HOT woman worth fighting for?
11HELENOFTROY
Throwing weapon known in Japanese as a shuriken
9NINJASTAR
2010-12's ___ Spring
4ARAB
Coronary insert
5STENT
GOT in the ballpark?
10GIVEORTAKE
Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building"
6SELENA
Under, poetically
5NEATH
Trick
4RUSE
Music to a comedian's ears
5LAUGH
Some 1960s-style protests
6LIEINS
Contents of a black-and-white pod
5ORCAS
BOB Dylan album?
14BLONDEONBLONDE
Impossible to read, perhaps
6INCODE
Word before cut or class
3LOW
Fragrant compound
5ESTER
"It's ___. Do you know where your children are?" (old P.S.A.)
5TENPM
Butcher's cut
4LOIN
Takes a little off
5TRIMS
Time's 2023 Person of the Year
5SWIFT
A.I.-powered video hoaxes
9DEEPFAKES
___ in ___
4SITU
Portuguese wine
7MADEIRA
Put out again
7REISSUE
MOB wives?
15MAILORDERBRIDES
Casino supervisor
7PITBOSS
Surround
7ENCLOSE
Poker in the Olympics?
4EPEE
How an urgent text may be written
9INALLCAPS
Affect emotionally
5TOUCH
Carne ___
5ASADA
Word on either side of "- -"
4TETE
Org. founded to fund foreign projects
5USAID
Vapes, familiarly
5ECIGS
King's title, in brief
3REV
Turkish summit
6ARARAT
Soap film
14SNAKESONAPLANE
Alternative to a Les Paul, for short
5STRAT
Dad's deflection
6ASKMOM
One of the seven deadly sins
5GREED
Vegetables rarely cut with a knife
4PEAS
Switch positions
5ONOFF
Washington or Berlin
6IRVING
KID napper's demand?
10KEEPITDOWN
Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak
5TILTS
Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"
4EDIE
Winning country at the 2022 World Cup
9ARGENTINA
THE big game?
11TEXASHOLDEM
"You're full of baloney!"
4LIAR
Right on, man
4IDIG
"Baywatch" actress Eleniak
5ERIKA
Breathers
5LULLS
Goals
4ENDS
Reference
4CITE
Fall perennial
5ASTER
Primatologists' subjects
4APES
One of a reporter's W's
5WHERE
Line of latitude
10ILLALLOWIT
Squishy part of a cat's paw, cutesily
7TOEBEAN
Brooding sort?
3HEN
Nutty
4DAFT
Frequently
5OFTEN
2025 biography subtitled "The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"
5LORNE
Nickname for the 6'9" Dallas Cowboys great Ed Jones
7TOOTALL
What a mess!
3STY
Kid's repeated request
4CANI
Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr.
4UNIV
Idiot mistakes
6BONERS
Pear variety
5ANJOU
Dazzling displays of skill
13MASTERCLASSES
Utah ski resort
4ALTA
Linger in the bath
4SOAK
Roll call response
4HERE
Nickname that's an alternative to Chuck
4CHAS
Native Oklahomans
6OSAGES
Bad lighting?
5ARSON
Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 1812
5GHENT
Some N.S.F.W. texts
5NUDES
Madre's hermano
3TIO
Spicy dips
9HOTSALSAS
Named, informally
4IDED
Madre's baby
4NENE
Manipulates dishonestly
5COOKS
Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels)
5ADIEU
Feel
5SENSE
Crunchy sandwiches, for short
4BLTS
___ Greiner, inventor and "Shark Tank" personality
4LORI
Fresh cut?
5NEWDO
Prickly patch
5BRIER
Fetter
6IMPEDE
Disappearing from the earth
9PERISHING
Hip-hop artists with unintelligible lyrics
13MUMBLERAPPERS
Bona ___
4FIDE
Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body)
5TRENT
Mild oath
3FIE
Trading card error
6MISCUT
Bowed, musically
4ARCO
Big inits. in 1990s internet
3AOL
Genre for Stevie Ray Vaughan
5BLUES
Celebrity chef DiSpirito
5ROCCO
Gyro wraps
5PITAS
Like krypton
5INERT
Turkic language
5TATAR
Basic drumming pattern
10PARADIDDLE
Steinbeck's "East of ___"
4EDEN
Place for Christmas lights
4EAVE
Not interested
4PASS
Head toward bankruptcy, say
4SINK
According to
5ASPER
Matt of "Oppenheimer"
5DAMON
Overly bright and showy
6GARISH
Used DoorDash, say
5ATEIN
___Mari Method (tidying system)
3KON
Hams
7EMOTERS
Advance in a video game
7LEVELUP
"That was true for me, too"
6ASDIDI
Storage area
5ATTIC
Demand from a disgruntled customer
5FIXIT
Unreliable sort, in slang
5FLAKE
What a Bohr!
5NIELS
Diamonds, but not clubs
4GEMS
Dark green?
4KALE
The Office receptionist
4ERIN
Mild oath
4EGAD
"Don't worry, boss!"
4ONIT
Kind of hike
4WAGE
Position removed by the February Revolution
4TSAR
Drink "for two" in song
3TEA
Portuguese greeting
3OLA