Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, April 23, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, April 23, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "WINDOWSILL".
Total Clues
78
Longest
WINDOWSILL
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
ACH
Featured Clue
"Spot for a catnap"
10 Letters
WINDOWSILL
ALLComplete Solution List
Truth be told ...
6FACTIS
___ so! (German "I see!")
3ACH
Hoax
4SHAM
Big name in skin care
6AVEENO
Leader whose face is shown on renminbi notes
3MAO
Ashen
4PALE
Spot for a catnap
10WINDOWSILL
Innings : baseball :: ___ : curling
4ENDS
Lead-in to Geo
3NAT
Symbol of mass density
3RHO
They're noisy little buggers
7CICADAS
Kinkajou cousin
5COATI
Expected outcome
4NORM
Circa
5ABOUT
Experience deep affirmation, in modern lingo
8FEELSEEN
On guard
5ALERT
Center
5MIDST
Opus ___
3DEI
Follower of open or closed, sartorially
4TOED
Spaghetti-strapped tops, informally
5CAMIS
Pass (out)
4CONK
Reaction to a sock
3OOF
Tasty item that, paradoxically, can have "ugh" in the middle
5DONUT
Queen's collaborator on the 1981 hit "Under Pressure"
5BOWIE
What the "Music City Miracle" and the "Immaculate Reception" took place in
8NFLGAMES
Alternative to bow ties
5PENNE
It might follow "ye"
4OLDE
"___ days are gone"
5THOSE
Test release
7TIMESUP
Qt. or pt.
3AMT
G.I. entertainers
3USO
Trawling, say
4ASEA
When many rainbows appear
10PRIDEMONTH
Like some chances
4SLIM
Steering aid
3OAR
Sign on a restroom door
6LADIES
Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu, in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie"
4KENS
Science Guy Bill
3NYE
Ring combo
6ONETWO
Babe in the woods
4FAWN
Adidas competitor
4AVIA
*Material for a sidewalk
6CEMENT
Media exec Sarandos
3TED
You game?
7INOROUT
To a degree
8SOMEWHAT
"Why ___ even here?"
3AMI
It might come after trig
4CALC
*Lack of pulchritude
10HOMELINESS
Pickle portions
6SPEARS
Something that's kept in the family ... or a hint to making sense of three pairs of answers in this puzzle
10HANDMEDOWN
Alan of "M*A*S*H"
4ALDA
State of a playroom, often
4MESS
Lush
3SOT
Young stud?
4COLT
Bungee jumping necessity
4CORD
"Assuming there's no other option for me ..."
7IFIMUST
Withdrawn
5ALOOF
Choice cut
8BEEFLOIN
Go over for publication
4EDIT
Start of a counting rhyme
5EENIE
Company that famously used the Beatles' "Revolution" in a 1987 TV commercial
4NIKE
Lots and lots
4ATON
Thick locks
4MANE
*Supermarket shopper's clipping
6COUPON
Alternative to a cup
4CONE
Owie kissers, perhaps
4DADS
Member of a wedding party
7BESTMAN
Twinkles
6GLEAMS
*Sport that uses mallets
4POLO
"You ___ me worried!"
3HAD
Something to be done.
4TASK
Louisiana's Grand ___ State Park
4ISLE
Speak while looking up, perhaps
4PRAY
Foot or stone
4UNIT
Goulash, e.g.
4STEW
Really, really
4OHSO
Wrath
3IRE
Weird Al's "___ to a Superhero"
3ODE