Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, September 21, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, September 21, 2026 features 76 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.0 letters. The longest answer is "TOOTIREDTOTHINK".
Total Clues
76
Longest
TOOTIREDTOTHINK
Avg Length
5.0
Shortest
NAM
Featured Clue
"Mentally pooped"
15 Letters
TOOTIREDTOTHINK
ALLComplete Solution List
Where Mongolia is
4ASIA
Scaredy-cat
4WIMP
Leafs through
5PAGES
Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize
4DAMN
Berry at a smoothie shop
4ACAI
Company behind the game Pong
5ATARI
Mentally pooped
15TOOTIREDTOTHINK
1960s service site, informally
3NAM
Common injury site for a basketball player, informally
3ACL
Thick, as plant growth
4LUSH
Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam
14TEACHTOTHETEST
Commercial that may come with a jingle
7RADIOAD
Took a chair
3SAT
Eager
4AVID
Hair parter
4COMB
Continue a subscription
5RENEW
Barely passing grade
3DEE
Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across
7FORTIES
Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate
3AGE
Sometimes-floral organic compound
5ESTER
Draped Indian garment
4SARI
___-X (computer command to cut text)
4CTRL
Crosses (out)
3XES
Conjures up, say
7CREATES
If I'm being honest...
14TOTELLTHETRUTH
Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna
4SEAR
Opposite of 'neath
3OER
Fools' mo.
3APR
"A fight requires more than one person"
15TAKESTWOTOTANGO
"I'm available to help"
5USEME
Modern note-taking aid
4IPAD
Plant in a marsh
4REED
Spanish babies
5NENES
What a paper airplane icon may indicate
4SEND
Thing in a grove
4TREE
Big letters in home security
3ADT
__ Paulo, Brazil
3SAO
Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks"
9IMONADIET
Relief for an upset stomach
7ANTACID
Simple two-player card game
3WAR
Drink cooler
3ICE
Angry with
5MADAT
Throw from a mound
5PITCH
Butter square
3PAT
Any Olympian
7ATHLETE
First name of Julius Caesar
5GAIUS
Artist Max
5ERNST
Worshiper in a turban
4SIKH
Texter's qualifier
4IMHO
Cries in a fútbol stadium
4OLES
Barter
5TRADE
Roof overhangs
5EAVES
It may have a hard or soft shell
4TACO
Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons
5ODORS
Paves the way?
4TARS
N.Y.C. subway letters
3MTA
Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper
5BIRCH
Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery
9NATTURNER
Spearfishing bird
5EGRET
People of SW Britain
5WELSH
Without charge
4FREE
The Emerald Isle
4EIRE
Like skydiving or cliff-diving
7EXTREME
Dashboard or bumper
7CARPART
Place to put a coin
4SLOT
Coup d'__
4ETAT
Joke with
5TEASE
Like some wine barrels
5OAKEN
___ and Clark
5LEWIS
Familiar narrative device
5TROPE
Leave dumbfounded
4STUN
French possessive
3SES
Catch some rays
3TAN
Bizarre
3ODD
Golly!
3GEE
Poetic tribute
3ODE