Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Sunday, May 3, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, May 3, 2026 features 138 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.3 letters. The longest answer is "PLASTICSHEETS".
Total Clues
138
Longest
PLASTICSHEETS
Avg Length
5.3
Shortest
ICH
Featured Clue
"Moisture barrier supplies"
13 Letters
PLASTICSHEETS
ALLComplete Solution List
First person in Austria
3ICH
Pressing activity, for short?
3CPR
Cleared to proceed
4OKED
Perched on
7SATATOP
Place for pigs to wallow
7MUDHOLE
Shawarma wrap
4PITA
"I'm here to learn"
7TEACHME
In sync
7ATTUNED
Moisture barrier supplies
13PLASTICSHEETS
23-Across, oddly?
10GIVESADARN
Vert. counterpart
3HOR
Geological layers
6STRATA
They got the votes
3INS
Saint-Barthélemy, par exemple
3ILE
Sugar suffix
3OSE
Father of Deimos
4ARES
A hard job
10NOEASYTASK
35-Across, oddly?
10STICKYPADS
Catch in a sting
6ENTRAP
Cleveland-to-Akron dir.
3SSE
Ryder of "Stranger Things"
6WINONA
Office memo starter
4INRE
Leprechaun's land
4ERIN
Conflict-averse
7NODRAMA
Fictional diary writer
12BRIDGETJONES
55-Across, oddly?
8LOWDIGIT
A as in Austria
3EIN
Lock lips, in London
4SNOG
Drive-___ menu
4THRU
Like the best bets
6SAFEST
Abandoned
4LEFT
Off-center
4AWRY
Time gone by
4YORE
Ending with the name Ann or Nan
4ETTE
"Reason" given in a parental "explanation"
6ISAYSO
Spots for grazing
4LEAS
Pond scum, e.g.
4FILM
Craven behind the camera
3WES
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author
8KENKESEY
81-Across, oddly?
12CHILDSUPPORT
Political understanding
7ENTENTE
___ ed
4PHYS
Book before Nehemiah
4EZRA
Boot camp shout
6TENHUT
Stanford and Cal joined it in 2024
3ACC
From the heart, in a way
6AORTAL
Conan and others
10BARBARIANS
99-Across, oddly?
10THINKPIECE
"Essays of ___" (19th-century collection)
4ELIA
Summer hours in N.Y.C.
3EDT
You smelt it!
3ORE
Inits. fittingly filling the blanks of Obam_ _ _re
3ACA
Luxor Temple deity
6AMONRA
Take an ax to
3HEW
Client's sales agent, in brief
10ACCOUNTREP
114-Across, oddly?
13NOTQUITERIGHT
Unspoken set of rules between dudes
7BROCODE
N next to the gearshift
7NEUTRAL
Ozzy Osbourne's "___, I'm Coming Home"
4MAMA
More dimwitted
7OBTUSER
Make more appealing, as something otherwise plain
7DRESSUP
Glad that's over
4PHEW
Spot for charity, say, in brief
3PSA
Newsroom staffers, for short
3EDS
"Just picture this!"
7IMAGINE
Rudely interrupt, as a dance partner
7CUTINON
Man cave fixture
7HDTVSET
Snow jobs
4CONS
Heartfelt ask
4PLEA
Website with an alien logo
6REDDIT
Treat badly, in a way
7OPPRESS
Potter's furnace
4KILN
Uber ride info, informally
3ETA
Small amount in the kitchen
4DASH
Adds with a spoon, say
7STIRSIN
Org. for J. Robert Oppenheimer
3AEC
U.S.S.R. news source
4TASS
Zwei quadrupled
4ACHT
What one might take or beat
6THERAP
World Golf Hall of Famer Mark
6OMEARA
Caressed
6PETTED
Sector of a color wheel
3HUE
Yer darn ___!
6TOOTIN
Pert blurt
4SASS
Cry often accompanied by a sigh
4ALAS
Cut-rate, in brand names
5ECONO
Parched
4ARID
Named names
4SANG
Belgian battle site in W.W. I
5YPRES
Neato!
4KEEN
Sounding like taffeta, say
6SWISHY
More than suspects
5KNOWS
When tripled, "You get the picture"
5YADDA
Sicilian spewer
4ETNA
Part of A.A.R.P.: Abbr.
3RET
Loaded with
4RIFE
When teething might end
6AGETWO
Produce aisle device
6MISTER
Swear
6ATTEST
Mimic
6BELIKE
Chewy chocolate candy brand
6RIESEN
One sporting a onesie
6INFANT
Loose-cheeked, as a mastiff
5JOWLY
Fantastic beast
4OGRE
Jarringly sensational
5LURID
u slay me
4ROFL
Day-care charge
4TYKE
Blue blood vessels?
6YACHTS
What___can I say?
4ELSE
German actress Berger with a career spanning eight decades
5SENTA
Big name in blenders
5OSTER
Reluctant to mingle, say
3SHY
Classic elevator tunes
5MUZAK
Start of a choosing rhyme
5EENIE
The time ___ hand
4ISAT
Stage item
4PROP
__-mutuel betting
4PARI
Kick starter?
6PUNTER
Didn't go it alone, say
7HADHELP
One of the so-called Five Civilized Tribes
7CHOCTAW
Magazine fig.
4CIRC
Fragrant garden hybrid
7TEAROSE
Gave consent.
7ACCEDED
The lords in "The 12 Days of Christmas," e.g.
7LEAPERS
Noggin
4BEAN
Vegan milk source
6ALMOND
Mob-scene extra
6RIOTER
French financial institution
6BANQUE
Jazz subgenre for Wynton Marsalis
6NEOBOP
Daily grinds
4RUTS
Puts on
4AIRS
Chicken out
4WIMP
"I'm in such a fix"
4AHME
Metro regions, informally
4URBS
___ bene
4NOTA
The Horned Frogs of Ft. Worth
3TCU
19th of 24
3TAU
Why!? Why!? Why!?
3GAH