Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, May 23, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, May 23, 2026 features 62 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 6.2 letters. The longest answer is "STRONGSTOMACH".
Total Clues
62
Longest
STRONGSTOMACH
Avg Length
6.2
Shortest
REO
Featured Clue
"Figurative ability to withstand almost anything"
13 Letters
STRONGSTOMACH
ALLComplete Solution List
They might be settled atop stools
7BARBETS
Shell, say
5ARMOR
Places to put fliers
8AVIARIES
Surgical specialty, informally
5NEURO
A boxer's might knock you out
9DOGBREATH
Substitute for "etc."
5YADDA
Begrudges
6ENVIES
Old auto company based in Lansing, Mich.
3REO
Jazz drummer DeRosa
4CLEM
One of the seven depicted in the 1995 thriller "Se7en"
5GREED
Daytime regulars
9SOAPSTARS
What some prisoners earn, in brief
4GEDS
Old black-and-white police autos, to Brits
9PANDACARS
___ weekend
3SPA
Walk on water?
9GANGPLANK
Top that screams "Look at me!"
9LOUDSHIRT
Clay-and-calcium-carbonate mix used in cement making
9MARLSTONE
Lovely!
3FAB
Chess puzzle challenge, maybe
9MATEINONE
Make do
4COPE
Many an epithet
9DIRTYNAME
Common con game
5MONTE
Petite ___ (certain French partner)
4AMIE
Epithet lead-in
3AKA
Bit of back-and-forth
6BANTER
Farrow with a Pulitzer for his investigative journalism
5RONAN
Eerie substance faked in 19th-century ghost hoaxes
9ECTOPLASM
Bygone leaders
5TSARS
Tourist nickname for a Southern mecca, to the chagrin of many locals
8HOTLANTA
Until, in Uruguay
5HASTA
Destination for wagons, once
7THEWEST
No-goodniks
7BADEGGS
Sales job that Forbes magazine once dubbed "the original side hustle," informally
7AVONREP
Ancient collection of Hindu hymns
7RIGVEDA
Pampers
6BABIES
Handled something poorly, say
5ERRED
Gets even with
4TIES
{/Tac/} preceder
3SEA
At least one
3ANY
Substance that undergoes change, as in a lab
8REACTANT
Magpie lookalike with black-and-white plumage
7MUDLARK
Bosses (around)
6ORDERS
Gads about
5ROAMS
Figurative ability to withstand almost anything
13STRONGSTOMACH
Canal blocker?
9HEADPHONE
Milky and iridescent
7OPALINE
Lizard predator of Africa
9SANDSNAKE
Close call
5SCARE
Swedish American model Porizkova
7PAULINA
Edward who wrote and illustrated "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
5GOREY
Foam designs, perhaps
8LATTEART
Berth places
7MARINAS
19th-century German novelist Theodor
7FONTANE
Stressors for some H.S. seniors
7APTESTS
Accessory on a pub counter
7BEERMAT
Brunch beverage
6MIMOSA
Standard 1L course, informally
6CONLAW
Title for some fictional lords
5DARTH
Sugar ____
5MAPLE
Choice for the undecided
4BOTH
Org. with a "Cryptographic Support Services" page on its website
3NSA
Little squirt
3TOT