Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, May 11, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, May 11, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.9 letters. The longest answer is "BILLBOARDCHARTS".
Total Clues
76
Longest
BILLBOARDCHARTS
Avg Length
4.9
Shortest
DER
Featured Clue
"Rankings of song popularity used as the music industry standard"
15 Letters
BILLBOARDCHARTS
ALLComplete Solution List
___ Spiegel (German magazine)
3DER
Animal that ranges around Peru
5LLAMA
Pointed, as a weapon
5AIMED
Lumberjack's tool
3AXE
Cameroon neighbor
5GABON
Yell
5SWEAR
Rankings of song popularity used as the music industry standard
15BILLBOARDCHARTS
Swells up
6BLOATS
Number in a septet
5SEVEN
Pb, in chemistry
4LEAD
Own (up)
4FESS
Freeze's opposite
4THAW
Whirling water
4EDDY
Up to, as a certain time
3TIL
Take fowl foully
5POACH
Canapé or deviled egg, for example
11HORSDOEUVRE
Clears of charges
7ACQUITS
A million gazillion
7UMPTEEN
Movie production facilities with controlled acoustics
11SOUNDSTAGES
Leave stunned
5AMAZE
Monk's counterpart
3NUN
Cut of pork or lamb
4CHOP
Spa service on the toes, in brief
4PEDI
"Please, no more!"
4STOP
That is so funny
4HAHA
Braid
5PLAIT
Helping for someone very, very hungry
6THIRDS
Insignificant amount
15DROPINTHEBUCKET
Tired from overexposure
5JADED
It was the ___ I could do
5LEAST
Big part of an elephant
3EAR
Storage places for lawn mowers
5SHEDS
Go kaboom, as a volcano
5ERUPT
Deadpan
3DRY
Practice casually, with "in"
6DABBLE
Kicked out, as from a country
6EXILED
Fill with more ammunition
6RELOAD
Pride letters
4LGBT
Vientiane is its capital
4LAOS
Lawyers' org.
3ABA
Tasty little bites
7MORSELS
Peruvian mountains
5ANDES
Tennis star Arthur
4ASHE
"Don't involve me anymore"
8IWANTOUT
French for "sea"
3MER
Gobble (down)
3EAT
Medical pros (Abbr.)
3DRS
Noblewoman
4LADY
Rival of Walgreens
3CVS
Winning a blue ribbon
5FIRST
Possess
4HAVE
Unit initially conceived as the amount of land that can be plowed in a day
4ACRE
In doubt
4WHEN
Pre-K enrollees
4TOTS
Enlivens, with "up"
4PEPS
_____-and-seek
4HIDE
Unearthed
5DUGUP
Rain clouds, to some
4OMEN
Rapper ____ Rocky
4ASAP
__ as you are
4COME
College courtyard
4QUAD
Opened, as a fly
8UNZIPPED
Request from someone craving more
7ANOTHER
Fashionable
4CHIC
Listened, poetically
6HARKED
"Goodness me!" ... or a phonetic hint to 17-, 31-, 39- and 55-Across
6OHDEAR
Croissant, éclair or Danish
6PASTRY
The "S" of S.F.
3SAN
Mr., Ms. or Mrs.
5TITLE
Tube tops?
4LIDS
Recipe amt.
4TBSP
Jabba the ___, "Star Wars" villain
4HUTT
Party pros playing tunes
3DJS
Go team!
3RAH
Poem of praise
3ODE
Contents of l'océan
3EAU