Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, April 26, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, April 26, 2026 features 140 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "DRESSFORTHEJOBYOUWANT".
Total Clues
140
Longest
DRESSFORTHEJOBYOUWANT
Avg Length
5.2
Shortest
NOR
Featured Clue
"Corporate fashion advice embraced by the candidates in eight clues"
21 Letters
DRESSFORTHEJOBYOUWANT
ALLComplete Solution List
Touch up text
4EDIT
One might be used for stepping up or sitting down
5STOOL
Hoot or holler
4YELL
"Let's go, guys!"
4CMON
Like the Islamic calendar
5LUNAR
Windy City airport
5OHARE
Birmingham bum
4ARSE
Stay in your __!
4LANE
<i>Fashion item for an aspiring grocer?</i>
11MARKETWATCH
<i>... for an aspiring nanny?</i>
9KIDGLOVES
Place to dive in
7DEEPEND
Became apparent
5AROSE
Stands around an art gallery
6EASELS
Neither's counterpart
3NOR
Small detail?
4SPEC
Central
5INNER
<i>... for an aspiring manicurist?</i>
13DIGITALSHORTS
Outmoded component of a car's dashboard
7CDDRIVE
Biblical garden
4EDEN
Did some doughnuts?
5BAKED
Dermatology case
4ACNE
What gives a wine tartness
4ACID
Quip
3MOT
Fragile mineral
4MICA
<i>... for an aspiring housekeeper?</i>
10DUSTJACKET
Scored 100 on a test
6ACEDIT
Soaks up the sun
4TANS
___ One (presidential helicopter)
6MARINE
Church spaces
5NAVES
Your wish is his command
5GENIE
Córdoba's country: Abbr.
3ARG
Soccer star Hamm
3MIA
Corporate fashion advice embraced by the candidates in eight clues
21DRESSFORTHEJOBYOUWANT
One in 100: Abbr.
3SEN
Ming in the Basketball Hall of Fame
3YAO
Holiday seasons
5YULES
Works on an ice cream cone
5LICKS
Tawdry
6SORDID
All over again
4ANEW
Japanese floor mat
6TATAMI
<i>... for an aspiring travel agent?</i>
10VENTURECAP
In the distance
4AFAR
Wiping cloth.
3RAG
Italian cooking staple, for short
4EVOO
Progress through Technology automaker
4AUDI
Like contact lenses for astigmatism
5TORIC
I wasn't ___ yesterday!
4BORN
Make it through
7GETPAST
<i>... for an aspiring dry cleaner?</i>
13STEAMERTRUNKS
Machines in some print shops
5FAXES
Tour de France peaks
4ALPS
Nutrient in avocados
3FAT
Apartment cooler, for short
6ACUNIT
Palm spring?
5OASIS
Stroll
7SAUNTER
<i>... for an aspiring flutist?</i>
9WINDSOCKS
<i>... for an aspiring photographer?</i>
11SHOTGLASSES
Used the doorbell
4RANG
Hides
4FURS
... as of now
5SOFAR
Solution strength
5TITER
It has its ups and downs
4YOYO
Accomplishment
4FEAT
UnitedHealthcare competitor
5AETNA
Absolutely nothing
4NADA
Massachusetts state tree
3ELM
Pair
4DUAD
Memo starter
4INRE
Consumed, say
7TAKENIN
Planted
4SOWN
Trumpeter Jones
4THAD
Bit in a horse's mouth
3OAT
Group spotted on an Alaskan cruise, perhaps
7ORCAPOD
"Hanukkah in Santa Monica" songwriter Tom
6LEHRER
Jabbers
4YAKS
Lake from which the Niagara River flows
4ERIE
Trip strip
3LSD
Tale as old as time
6LEGEND
Anyone's game
9CLOSERACE
Independent thinker
8MAVERICK
Justice Kagan in '83, e.g.
4ONEL
Scottish Loch
4NESS
Transplant, as a plant
5REPOT
Large measure of computer data
7TERABIT
Earth
4LAND
Four 2-Downs
5OCTAD
Yacht's pronoun
3SHE
Freeze frames?
8ICETRAYS
Calls for
7DEMANDS
"It's truly important to me"
7IDOCARE
Settle the score
7GETEVEN
Standing eau?
3LAC
Blade runner?
6SKATER
Dirty film
4SCUM
Compete
3VIE
Summer setting in Somerset, in brief
3EDT
Fed. intelligence group
3NSA
"Come home soon"
7MISSYOU
"___ Dreams of Sushi" (acclaimed 2011 documentary)
4JIRO
Sharp-cornered
7ANGULAR
From abroad
3DES
Insect with more than 14,000 known species
3ANT
PubMed org.
3NIH
I'm outta here!
5SEEYA
Super food?
8GOODEATS
Patisserie treat
7MACARON
Stain from a pen
7INKMARK
Name tags
7ATSIGNS
Jamie with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
4FARR
End of Q2
3JUN
World Cup cheer
3OLE
Watch your back!
6BEWARE
Intelligent humor
3WIT
Like rush hour traffic
9STOPANDGO
Post-op area, in brief
3ICU
Pops
4DADS
Diplomatic
7TACTFUL
Not do much of anything, say
3VEG
Night before
3EVE
Like a comedian who bombs
8NOTFUNNY
Stack at a falafel shop
5PITAS
Tree whose wood is used for telephone poles
3FIR
One clicking with an audience?
7TAPSHOE
Meditation syllables
3OMS
Interrupts rudely
7BUTTSIN
Grid line
4AXIS
Leave on a trip
6SETOFF
Michigan politician Slotkin
6ELISSA
Charged
5RANAT
Out of its correct position
4AWRY
Florentine farewell
4CIAO
Pod in Creole cooking
4OKRA
Helper (abbr.)
4ASST
Marvel-ous Lee
4STAN
Taj Mahal city
4AGRA
__ noche (tonight: Sp.)
4ESTA
Marsh grass
4REED
Stick used for breaking
3CUE
O'er and o'er
3OFT
Madrid Mme.
3SRA