Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday, September 23, 2026 features 74 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 5.2 letters. The longest answer is "SPORTSMANSHIP".
Total Clues
74
Longest
SPORTSMANSHIP
Avg Length
5.2
Shortest
EAR
Featured Clue
"Honorable conduct on the field"
13 Letters
SPORTSMANSHIP
ALLComplete Solution List
Meh
4BLAH
Labors like the Seven Dwarfs
5MINES
Looped in via email
4CCED
Covid-19, colloquially
4RONA
Brand acquired by Hasbro in 1998
5ATARI
Mauna Loa output
4LAVA
Car with a logo similar to the Olympic rings
4AUDI
Start of a counting rhyme
5EENIE
Slightly
4ATAD
Honorable conduct on the field
13SPORTSMANSHIP
Recluses
7HERMITS
On schedule
6TIMELY
Musician's gift
3EAR
Super Mario character with a mushroom for a head
4TOAD
Fish eggs
3ROE
Kid around
4JEST
When hunting restrictions are lifted
10OPENSEASON
Epic poem originally passed down orally
5ILIAD
CPR expert
3EMT
Pretense
5FRONT
Carnival diversion requiring precision
10BALLOONPOP
One-named singer who lives in an Irish castle
4ENYA
Bikini season, in Bordeaux
3ETE
"Hmm ... I pass"
4UHNO
Word before data or deal
3RAW
Peak in the Alaska Range
6DENALI
Slender e-cig
7VAPEPEN
"You're free to criticize it" ... or a comment one might make about 20-, 34- and 41-Across?
13THATSFAIRGAME
Genderqueer identity, informally
4ENBY
Windowside perches
5SILLS
Back in my day ...
4ONCE
Instrument also called the "sprightly companion"
4OBOE
Greek salad morsel
5OLIVE
Gave the green light
4OKED
Catches red-handed
4NABS
Duly ___
5NOTED
They go for bucks
4DOES
Brazen
5BRASH
Jeweler's magnifying glass
5LOUPE
"Star Wars" series starring Diego Luna
5ANDOR
Music genre named for its voluminous dos
9HAIRMETAL
Distinguished conductor
7MAESTRO
Agenda topics
5ITEMS
Nickname for Grandma
4NANA
Environmental activist Brockovich
4ERIN
Naps, in Nicaragua
7SIESTAS
___ to fame
5CLAIM
One preferring purrs to pooches
9CATPERSON
Actress Mendes
3EVA
Old man
3DAD
Spanish aunt
3TIA
720p+ resolution, informally
5HIDEF
Bonkers
5LOONY
Gossip, from the Yiddish
5YENTA
It's kept by a metronome
5TEMPO
Not fooled by
4ONTO
Meshed (with)
5JIBED
Thrill
5ELATE
Jay's reticent partner of filmdom
9SILENTBOB
Ivy League school with a dolphin on its coat of arms, informally
4PENN
"Is everything cool between us?"
9AREWEGOOD
Nonmedical childbirth assistant
5DOULA
Them's fightin' words
7OHITSON
Talked up
7PRAISED
Arbor Day mo.
3APR
Now I remember!
5AHYES
Part of a heart or faucet
5VALVE
Japanese bread crumbs
5PANKO
Host with a mic
5EMCEE
More than wants
5NEEDS
Rural structure seen in a Grant Wood lithograph
4SILO
Dart about
4FLIT
Seemingly for-EH-ver
3EON
Thunder setting, in brief
3NBA