Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, September 7, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, September 7, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "ELEVATORMUSIC".
Total Clues
78
Longest
ELEVATORMUSIC
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
EVA
Featured Clue
"Uplifting tunes? ... or a hint to the circled squares"
13 Letters
ELEVATORMUSIC
ALLComplete Solution List
Actress Longoria or Mendes
3EVA
Word after op or pop
3ART
Jabbers on a plane?
6ELBOWS
Hip-hop's ___ Wayne
3LIL
If I __ a Carpenter
4WERE
First-year professional athlete
6ROOKIE
Illegal
8UNLAWFUL
Meal, formally
6REPAST
Not working, as a phone
4DEAD
Tool for winter fishing
6ICESAW
Affirmative
3YES
To be, in Barcelona
5ESTAR
Made level
6EVENED
Apple all-in-one computer
4IMAC
Contribute something more
3ADD
Hoppy brews, for short
4IPAS
Dependable, upstanding guy
6MENSCH
Key often near Caps Lock
3TAB
Bog down
4MIRE
What a hen lays
3EGG
Robes tied with obis
7KIMONOS
Bit of acne, informally
3ZIT
How Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in 1927
4SOLO
__ and Driver magazine
3CAR
Holy cannoli!
6YOWZAH
Fret
4STEW
Kipling novel or its young hero
3KIM
Singer Bareilles
4SARA
*"Beats me!"
6NOCLUE
Indian princes
5RAJAS
Rotor speed fig.
3RPM
Ordered (around)
6BOSSED
Carry
4TOTE
Wizard's mixture
6ELIXIR
Not now, but later
8INAWHILE
Cut out
6DELETE
List, as in a reference
4CITE
Yea's opposite
3NAY
Ukrainian seaport, in an older spelling
6ODESSA
"Let's ___!" ("Dinner's on!")
3EAT
Org. checking carry-on bags
3TSA
Deftly avoid
5ELUDE
Plants with tendrils
5VINES
Electric with excitement
10ALLATINGLE
Cry over a newborn
3AWW
Home loan overhaul, in brief
4REFI
Halt to hostilities
5TRUCE
Some gofers
10ERRANDBOYS
Handbag fashion label from Madrid
5LOEWE
Playful knock on the noggin
3BOP
Give the thumbs up
4OKAY
Sagacious
4WISE
Divisions in a tennis match
4SETS
Uplifting tunes? ... or a hint to the circled squares
13ELEVATORMUSIC
President after Washington
5ADAMS
Alternative to a convertible or station wagon
5SEDAN
Hat holder
4RACK
Barely visible, as light from a star
3DIM
Grammy-winning pianist with the Elektric Band
10CHICKCOREA
Dive offering slices
10PIZZAJOINT
Puccini's "Nessun dorma," e.g.
4ARIA
Meyers of "Late Night"
4SETH
Clutter
4MESS
Rare four-award achievement in entertainment, for short
4EGOT
Slips in a slot at the post office
5MAILS
Fly to new heights
4SOAR
Dominate, in sports slang
3OWN
"I was angry with my foe: / I told it not, my ___ did grow": William Blake
5WRATH
Passing notices, informally
5OBITS
Counting-out rhyme opener
5EENIE
Book made obsolescent by GPS
5ATLAS
Buh-bye!
5SEEYA
Attempt anew
4REDO
Said 'guilty,' say
4PLED
One of 26 in a marathon
4MILE
Contents of an Excel spreadsheet
4DATA
Kisses, symbolically
3XES
Like some dog kisses
3WET