Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Saturday, September 12, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Saturday, September 12, 2026 features 70 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.6 letters. The longest answer is "THATSMORELIKEIT".
Total Clues
70
Longest
THATSMORELIKEIT
Avg Length
5.6
Shortest
ASA
Featured Clue
"Now we're talking!"
15 Letters
THATSMORELIKEIT
ALLComplete Solution List
Light décor
10LAMPSHADES
Last-place
4TOMB
Pop-up with an envelope icon
10EMAILALERT
Round figure?
4OVAL
Winner's circle?
10VICTORYLAP
Take two
4REDO
Hyperfixated
6ENRAPT
"Thick ___ Brick" (1972 Jethro Tull album)
3ASA
Earth's pull, informally
4ONEG
On the ___: free
5LOOSE
Thumbs-down votes in the Duma
5NYETS
Why wait?
3TIP
Personal circumstances, so to speak
5SHOES
Justice who's the subject of the 2026 biography "Revenge for the Sixties"
5ALITO
Rolls out the green carpet?
4SODS
First full word sung in "The Alphabet Song"
3AND
Proverbial small amount
6CRUMBS
Now we're talking!
15THATSMORELIKEIT
Capers
6ANTICS
Common
3ERA
Rowing machines, in gym lingo
4ERGS
{/Schitt's Creek/} matriarch
5MOIRA
Really hurts
5MAIMS
Rout, in computer game lingo
3PWN
Word with letter or grant
5BLOCK
Toothbrush handle?
5ORALB
Smokes
4CIGS
N.B.A. coach Jordan ___
3OTT
Punnily named production company behind TV's "Insecure" and "A Black Lady Sketch Show"
6HOORAE
Stat
4ASAP
Common sleep aid
10WHITENOISE
Acquire by default?
4REPO
Math class assignment
10PROBLEMSET
Labor, e.g.: Abbr.
4DEPT
Appliances that are always blowing out?
10HANDDRYERS
Carpenter's tool
5LEVEL
__ acid
5AMINO
Kind of photography lens for a close-up
5MACRO
Wraps in the Mideast
5PITAS
Certain geometry calculations
6SLOPES
Playwright Moss.
4HART
Gymnast Raisman
3ALY
What a joke may get eventually
15DELAYEDREACTION
Takes marks off in a classroom?
6ERASES
Mid-March V.I.P., informally
5STPAT
"Surf" food in Japan, or "turf" animal in Spain
4TORO
Kitchen counter?
9OVENTIMER
Became a household name, say
9MADEITBIG
Examples of media on Medium
9BLOGPOSTS
Many a listing in an etiquette book
4NONO
Wrap in South Asia
4SARI
Actors unsuited for subtle roles
4HAMS
Country singer Combs
4LUKE
Rewards program tracker
9STAMPCARD
"It's finally clear"
9OHNOWISEE
Phone connector?
9DATINGAPP
Arouse
4STIR
Simoleon
4CLAM
Labor pain?
4SCAB
Journalist Larson who wrote "The Splendid and the Vile"
4ERIK
Godzilla adversary
6MOTHRA
Longhorn's rival
6SOONER
Acidic
5LOWPH
Capacious
5ROOMY
Surface
5ARISE
Pointer for a public speaker
5LASER
Sources of the juice that "bleeds" in a faux meat patty
5BEETS
Tough thing to be in
4SPOT
Stayed together
4HELD
Placeholder abbr.
3TBD