Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Thursday, May 28, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Thursday, May 28, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.4 letters. The longest answer is "PASTORPRESENT".
Total Clues
70
Longest
PASTORPRESENT
Avg Length
5.4
Shortest
OPT
Featured Clue
"Preacher's gift?"
13 Letters
PASTORPRESENT
ALLComplete Solution List
Surname of two Indian prime ministers
6GANDHI
Fly-by-night types?
4OWLS
Go for ___
3OPT
Drew Carey, Halle Berry or Guy Fieri, originally
6OHIOAN
Baroque instrument
4VIOL
Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly)
3HOE
Walking-around money for Pavarotti?
11TENORTWENTY
Veto
3NIX
Whistling stickup man on "The Wire"
4OMAR
Cry of frustration
5AARGH
McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B.
4SOSA
Hajj destination
5MECCA
Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s
6ASTROS
Preacher's gift?
13PASTORPRESENT
Fly catcher
4MITT
Kind of a drag
4MAIN
Parrot
3APE
Perceptive
7SENSATE
Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station
7ROSSSEA
Get ___ (shine scholastically)
3ANA
Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly
4DELT
Billionaire Musk
4ELON
5 and 8 go into 42, for example?
13FACTORFICTION
Fan of "I" statements
6EGOIST
Dissect with a diagram
5PARSE
Actually
4WELL
Start of many first-year course names
5INTRO
Lawman who got out of Dodge
4EARP
60 minuti
3ORA
Local leader is prohibited?
11MAYORMAYNOT
Clear
3RID
Bum around Europe
4ARSE
Intentional creases
6PLEATS
Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad"
3DEA
Changes the locks?
4DYES
Acted all crabby?
6SIDLED
Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code
4GOTO
Excuse me?
4AHEM
Totenberg of public radio
4NINA
People who get walked all over
8DOORMATS
Bit of a laugh
3HAR
Not separated
6INTACT
Throwing style
7OVERARM
Bit of a lark
4WING
Lady killer
8LOTHARIO
Machiavellian, in a way
3SLY
Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?"
10OHNOREASON
Written with venom
9POISONPEN
Oil, they say
8TEXASTEA
Birthplace of Dr Pepper
4WACO
Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two
3STS
México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others
7ESTADOS
Guardians of bushido tradition
7SENSEIS
National drink of Puerto Rico
10PINACOLADA
Two, for many a putt-putt hole
3PAR
It's a zoo out there
9MENAGERIE
Blue stop sign?
8SAFEWORD
Third in order
8TERTIARY
Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien
3ELF
Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze
8SLOEEYED
Comes on little cat feet
7TIPTOES
___ death do us part.
3TIL
Comedian Jimmy ___.
4CARR
Opposite of 39-Down
6TROMPS
Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines)
4NYSE
Fussbudgety, say
4ANAL
Mindless repetition
4ROTE
Affliction for many first responders, in brief
4PTSD
Spy vs. Spy magazine
3MAD
Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick"
3ALI