Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, May 14, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, May 14, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "STANDINGWATER".
Total Clues
74
Longest
STANDINGWATER
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
PSI
Featured Clue
"Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes"
13 Letters
STANDINGWATER
ALLComplete Solution List
Cliff formed by a fault
5SCARP
Avoided a tag, say
4SLID
Penultimate Greek letter
3PSI
"My fault entirely"
5ALLME
Taste perception first identified in 1908
5UMAMI
Physics unit named for a physicist
3OHM
Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997
11COLORPHOTOS
Confucian "way"
3TAO
Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes
13STANDINGWATER
Impression on some fancy sheets
9WATERMARK
Puente of "The Mambo Kings"
4TITO
Traveled path
5ROUTE
At sea, say
10ONTHEWATER
Powerful fireboat gear
12WATERCANNONS
Rationalist's theology
5DEISM
Decree
4FIAT
Part of an analogy
4ISTO
"___'s da breaks!"
3DEM
Lovestruck
7SMITTEN
Flesh and blood
3KIN
Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword
4EDEN
Direction to bow, in music
4ARCO
Squeezing (out)
5EKING
Gets bloated, say
12RETAINSWATER
Pair for a pool
10WATERWINGS
Ruthless Athenian lawgiver
5DRACO
Tidy up, in a way
4DUST
What collects in a puddle
9RAINWATER
Things often getting free refills
13WATERPITCHERS
Simile segment
3ASA
Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations
11IHEARTRADIO
___ Friday
3GAL
Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"
5NORSE
Heather genus that's also a woman's name
5ERICA
Good periods
3UPS
Former small-sized G.M. cars
4GEOS
Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters
5WATER
Anatomical containers
4SACS
Thicken
4CLOT
Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu
4ALLA
September to April, in the oyster industry
7RMONTHS
Alternatives to hourly wages
8PERDIEMS
Ecological concern
4SMOG
Trellis piece
4LATH
if u ask me ...
3IMO
Gossip about, informally
6DISHON
A peeling that's appealing?
10POTATOSKIN
Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism
10SHARENTING
Reassuring reply
4IMOK
That ain't it
4UHNO
Essence
4PITH
Certain tax-free bond, informally
4MUNI
Velocity, e.g.
4RATE
Relatively unusual
5ODDER
Had to have right away
10NEEDEDASAP
Races against the clock
10TIMETRIALS
Travel by pick-up?
5HITCH
"The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman
4CATO
Strains to hear?
5SONGS
Hemlock relatives
4FIRS
Hand at a hacienda
4MANO
Group with a satellite truck
8NEWSCREW
Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu
4NAAN
Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name
7KITHARA
Ancient book of divination
6ICHING
Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species
4HUTT
Presaging disaster
4DIRE
Meaty pasta sauce
4RAGU
Long lunch
4HERO
Get ahead of
4PASS
Cut and paste, e.g.
4EDIT
Force through a food mill
4RICE
Go way up
4SOAR
Uprooting tool
3HOE