Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, April 28, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.1 letters. The longest answer is "TIESUPLOOSEENDS".
Total Clues
74
Longest
TIESUPLOOSEENDS
Avg Length
5.1
Shortest
OPI
Featured Clue
"Handles a few unresolved issues"
15 Letters
TIESUPLOOSEENDS
ALLComplete Solution List
Sore
4ACHY
Nail polish brand
3OPI
Some cantina fare
5TACOS
"Hip hip hooray!," e.g.
5CHEER
Sink-or-swim competition?
9WATERPOLO
Handles a few unresolved issues
15TIESUPLOOSEENDS
Like tears
6SALINE
Site to build on
3LOT
Gossip, slangily
3TEA
Build on
5ADDTO
Welcome at the door, say
5ASKIN
Linguist's concern
7GRAMMAR
Serious in manner
5STERN
Bagel topping
3LOX
Not perfect, but acceptable
11CLOSEENOUGH
Bickering
4ATIT
Blade that's pulled
3OAR
Casual farewell often used outside its language of origin
4CIAO
Station set up in a kitchen
11MISEENPLACE
Bit of intel
3TIP
Coins of Cuba
5PESOS
Ingredients in some tropical smoothies
7PAPAYAS
Foreign Service assignments
5POSTS
Madrid Mister
5SENOR
Church seat
3PEW
Promise to pay
3IOU
Journalist, informally
6SCRIBE
Like children, ideally, in an old adage ... or a hint to a four-letter word hidden in 17-, 32- and 40-Across
15SEENANDNOTHEARD
Rigorous
9STRINGENT
Astronomer Carl
5SAGAN
Irritable
5TESTY
As written
3SIC
Civil Rights activist Parks
4ROSA
Play parts
4ACTS
Kind of seed or pet
4CHIA
Sometimes-raised part of a shoe
4HEEL
Emphatic confirmation
6YESIAM
Nocturnal hooter
3OWL
Painter Veronese
5PAOLO
Langston Hughes poem
4ITOO
Due + 1
3TRE
Mimic
3APE
Script supervisor's concern
10CONTINUITY
Days ___
5OLDEN
Slugger Sammy
4SOSA
"Raising Hell" rap trio
6RUNDMC
Council ___ (British equivalent of a housing project)
6ESTATE
Part of a piano or loom
5PEDAL
Boots on the ground
6TROOPS
Rep.'s counterpart
3SEN
Ray of McDonald's
4KROC
Genre for Ziggy Stardust, informally
4GLAM
Naan alternative
4ROTI
Coalition that opposed the Allies in W.W. II
10AXISPOWERS
Mexican wrap
6SERAPE
Kid-lit girl with a blueberry pail
3SAL
Greek goddess of the earth
4GAIA
Brewing need
4HOPS
They help you drive farther
4TEES
Ballpark fig.
3EST
Snooping (around)
6NOSING
"___ thou not minister to a mind diseased ...?": Macbeth
5CANST
Significant periods
6EPOCHS
Overdue debt
6ARREAR
Golfer Calvin or QB Rodney
5PEETE
Islam's largest branch
5SUNNI
Alternative to a tap on the shoulder
4PSST
Works of praise
4ODES
Othello villain
4IAGO
Some supports
4BRAS
___ Lewis, the "Grande Dame of Southern Cooking"
4EDNA
Minor complaint
3NIT
Unspecified amount
3ANY
Not Rx
3OTC