Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, September 14, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, September 14, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "SPLITDECISION".
Total Clues
78
Longest
SPLITDECISION
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
ELM
Featured Clue
"Close boxing match outcome"
13 Letters
SPLITDECISION
ALLComplete Solution List
Cherokee or Wrangler
4JEEP
Omelet ingredients
4EGGS
Big noisy fight
5MELEE
Cornfield measure
4ACRE
Little flying pest
4GNAT
Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers
5EVANS
Crew building
9BOATHOUSE
Assigns stars to, as on Yelp
5RATES
"Spare" things at a barbecue
4RIBS
Stately tree
3ELM
Before, in poetry
3ERE
Atlantic City attraction
6CASINO
Is it bigger than a __?
8BREADBOX
911 respondent, in brief
3EMT
Latina toon explorer
4DORA
Beatles song with the lyric "She promises the earth to me"
4GIRL
Pinocchio's are easily exposed
4LIES
Absolutely, amigo!
4SISI
The White Stripes and the Black Keys, for two
4DUOS
Close boxing match outcome
13SPLITDECISION
Picket line crosser
4SCAB
Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree"
4SHEL
Contacted on Instagram, informally
4DMED
Bills typically found in a tip jar
4ONES
Mallorca or Menorca, por ejemplo
4ISLA
Place for a piercing or a plug
3EAR
All-out boxing match
8SLUGFEST
Sarcastic
6SNARKY
"Hamilton" composer ___-Manuel Miranda
3LIN
Singer/actress Rita
3ORA
It's smashed in a particle accelerator
4ATOM
Playful aquatic mammal
5OTTER
Flip out ... or a hint to the beginnings of 17-, 27-, 39- and 51-Across
9GOBANANAS
Word said while pointing
5THERE
Never Have I ___ (sleepover game)
4EVER
Coldest possible temperature on the Kelvin scale
4ZERO
Informal hoops game
5HORSE
Winter road application
4SALT
Rams' mates
4EWES
Quick boxing punch
3JAB
Prefix with friendly or warrior
3ECO
Slice of history
3ERA
___ dish (lab item)
5PETRI
Self-esteem builder
8EGOBOOST
African antelopes
4GNUS
Something an electric car doesn't use
3GAS
Have the reins
5STEER
Disney's Ariel and her sisters
8MERMAIDS
Youngest of the Gabor sisters
3EVA
One slow to develop
11LATEBLOOMER
Beginning of el año
5ENERO
English county NE of London
5ESSEX
Female red deer
4HIND
Break a ___!
3LEG
"The Simpsons" collectible
3CEL
Out of place
5AMISS
Pedometer
11STEPCOUNTER
Single, double, or triple
7BASEHIT
Ancient Celtic priest
5DRUID
Clears (of)
4RIDS
Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language"
5SLANG
Completes, as a cake
4ICES
Move stealthily
5SNEAK
Lead-in to "except after C"
8IBEFOREE
Let me go first
8ILLSTART
Like some humor and wine
3DRY
To be, in Barcelona
3SER
Soon, in poems
4ANON
Animal that sleeps upside down
5SLOTH
Certain art print, informally
5LITHO
Wise sorts
5SAGES
Astound
5AMAZE
Brother of Cain
4ABEL
TV medical drama settings, in brief
3ERS
Things traveling through fallopian tubes
3OVA
Previously unseen
3NEW
Rules __ rules
3ARE
Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me"
3SOS