Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, April 18, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, April 18, 2026 features 62 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.0 letters. The longest answer is "CALIFORNIAROLL".
Total Clues
62
Longest
CALIFORNIAROLL
Avg Length
6.0
Shortest
MOD
Featured Clue
"Dish purportedly invented in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo neighborhood"
14 Letters
CALIFORNIAROLL
ALLComplete Solution List
"The Jeffersons" or "The Simpsons," notably
7SPINOFF
Team with the mascot Big Al, familiarly
4BAMA
___ in time . . .
13SOONERORLATER
Dish purportedly invented in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo neighborhood
14CALIFORNIAROLL
New York's ___ Valley
6HUDSON
Thawing
7DETENTE
TREAT
6DOCTOR
New outfit or accessory for a character, in video game-speak
3MOD
Things that shouldn't be hidden
4FEES
Non-eco-friendly refrigerant
5FREON
Term in the bedroom, maybe
8SAFEWORD
Unite
3WED
Two-pronged
4DUAL
Metros in the 1990s
4GEOS
Wait just a sec
9HANGTIGHT
Cowboy's friend, informally
4PARD
Name that spiked in popularity following a 2013 Disney movie
4ELSA
Finalized
3SET
You've got nothing to worry about!
8RESTEASY
All-time scoring leader for the Miami Heat, familiarly
5DWADE
Routine surfaces
4MATS
Browns, on a scoreboard
3CLE
Mathematics writer Gardner
6MARTIN
Words of endorsement
7IMFORIT
Arrived
6MADEIT
Make-believe sorrow
14CROCODILETEARS
Cause of amusement to a vet, maybe
13ROOKIEMISTAKE
Daredevil's calculation
4ODDS
Some fairy-tale characters
7DAMSELS
Did business with, in a way
6SOLDTO
Blowgun projectile
10POISONDART
Words before "a penny" or "a treat"
5INFOR
Fifth-most abundant element in the universe
4NEON
Lieutenant in "Catch-22"
3ORR
INTO
6FONDOF
Breakfast dish that might go over well?
9FRIEDEGGS
How people get into a swimming pool, typically
8BAREFOOT
Yom Kippur observers
7ATONERS
Like the cheese in fondue
6MELTED
Backdrop for many van Gogh paintings
5ARLES
Blitzed
6SAUCED
___ pull-downs (exercise)
3LAT
Item in a list on the fridge, maybe
5CHORE
Texas air hub, for short
3DFW
Silky-haired toy
7MALTESE
Start to give
3SAG
"Hey, no backing out now!"
10WEHADADEAL
Still waffling
9UNDECIDED
Relatives of ottomans
8HASSOCKS
Texter's affectionate sign-off
3ILY
It's not fit for human consumption
7PETFOOD
Cutting stuff
6SATIRE
Cuts a line?
5EDITS
It takes two hands to show
3TEN
Musketeer's tool
6RAMROD
Nissan model
6ALTIMA
Brings about, as havoc
6WREAKS
Less than milli-, more than nano-
5MICRO
Paint option
5MATTE
Metric for a venture capitalist, in brief
3ROI
Play (with)
4MESS
Calc. calculation
3LIM