Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, April 15, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "CREATEAMONSTER".
Total Clues
74
Longest
CREATEAMONSTER
Avg Length
5.2
Shortest
ELK
Featured Clue
"Put all the <strong>b</strong>old lette<strong>r</strong>s in this cl<strong>u</strong>e <strong>t</strong>ogeth<strong>e</strong>r?"
14 Letters
CREATEAMONSTER
ALLComplete Solution List
Playbill groups
5CASTS
"He's very modest — he has a lot to be modest about," e.g.
4GIBE
Like an enthusiast
4AVID
Tokyo-based brewery
5ASAHI
Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments
4OBOE
Snackable seaweed
4NORI
Put all the b<strong>o</strong>l<strong>d</strong> letters in this clue t<strong>o</strong>gethe<strong>r</strong>?
10MAKEASTINK
Aussie greeting
4GDAY
Paper view?
4OPED
One reason to pucker up
4KISS
Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day
3ELK
Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work)
4EDAM
How two people might walk
7ABREAST
Put all the <strong>b</strong>old lette<strong>r</strong>s in this cl<strong>u</strong>e <strong>t</strong>ogeth<strong>e</strong>r?
14CREATEAMONSTER
Get into a get-up
6CLOTHE
Mamá's boy
4NINO
Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics
3ORO
Dagnabbit
4RATS
Sheriff's backup
5POSSE
Tech review site
4CNET
"I love," in Italian and Spanish
3AMO
Veg out in a spa?
4CUKE
Works out, say
6TRAINS
<strong>P</strong>ut <strong>a</strong>ll the bold letters in this <strong>c</strong>lue toge<strong>t</strong>her?
14FORMANALLIANCE
Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s
7TROTSKY
Longtime Yankee nickname
4AROD
___ to the West Wind
3ODE
Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides
4SKYE
"It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric)
4YMCA
Presidential power
4VETO
<strong>P</strong>ut all the b<strong>o</strong>ld letters in this clue t<strong>o</strong>get<strong>h</strong>er?
10BUILDABEAR
Blizzard ingredient
4OREO
English singer Parks
4ARLO
Potato-based Hanukkah serving
5LATKE
Heartfelt, say
4WARM
Cat's cry
4MEOW
Parts of a copse
5TREES
Hunter's attire, informally
4CAMO
Like, now
4ASAP
Drink that's often served hot in the winter
4SAKE
When and where, in slang
8THEDEETS
One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable"
3SIA
The moment of truth
6GOTIME
Bird with a long, downward-curving bill
4IBIS
Brest besties
8BONSAMIS
Holy cannoli!
3EEK
Geometers' calculations
6ANGLES
Clear cocktail often served with lime
10VODKATONIC
Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n
3IRA
Like some remodels, for short
3DIY
Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41
9SKATEPUNK
Toy inventer Rubik
4ERNO
Bit of Morse code
3DAH
Completely beat
9BONETIRED
Like a glassy lake
6SERENE
Puts on display, with "out"
5TROTS
Tumult
6CLAMOR
Big name in plumbing
10ROTOROOTER
Photographer Adams
5ANSEL
Woodworking or glass blowing
5CRAFT
"All right, I'm convinced"
8OKAYSURE
Milky Way or Mars
8CANDYBAR
Suit, e.g.
4CASE
Indian P.M. of the 1990s
3RAO
Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings"
6MTDOOM
Tried not to draw attention
6LAYLOW
Letter between Juliet and Lima
4KILO
Dole out
4METE
Order for a wedding reception
4CAKE
One of the Twelve Olympians
4ARES
Promise
3VOW
Pitching stat.
3ERA
Comic book onomatopoeia
3BAM
Music genre prefix
3ALT