Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Monday, September 28, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Monday, September 28, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "BOMBSHELL".
Total Clues
78
Longest
BOMBSHELL
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
OWE
Featured Clue
"Complete shocker"
9 Letters
BOMBSHELL
ALLComplete Solution List
Widespread disorder
5HAVOC
Like the exteriors of armadillos
5SCALY
Fall behind in payments
3OWE
Boxing locale
5ARENA
Classic radio song
5OLDIE
Dessert with a crust
3PIE
Solid baseball hit
5LINER
Complete shocker
9BOMBSHELL
Bicycle built for two
6TANDEM
Round Table title
3SIR
Time will tell
4ONLY
Prefix with physics or thermal
3GEO
Make into law
5ENACT
Alternative to French fries
9TATERTOTS
Skill needed to solve sudoku
5LOGIC
Suffix with fail or forfeit
3URE
Apple platform
3IOS
"Time flies like an [50-Down]; fruit flies like a ___"
6BANANA
With 41-Across, ball hit out of the park by the very first batter for either side ... or a hint to the starts of 18-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across
7LEADOFF
See 38-Across
7HOMERUN
Coconut Girl Scout cookies
6SAMOAS
La Cage ___ Folles
3AUX
Frat member.
3BRO
Liability's opposite
5ASSET
Detonation region
9BLASTZONE
"___ I compare thee to a summer's day?": Shak.
5SHALL
Before, poetically
3ERE
What's more
4ALSO
Spoil
3ROT
Performs a stylish ballroom dance
6TANGOS
Tropical tree whose product is sometimes used as a meat substitute
9JACKFRUIT
San Francisco ballplayer
5GIANT
Actress ___ de Armas
3ANA
Take a look!
5GOSEE
Helper for computer problems, informally
5ITGUY
Kylo of "Star Wars"
3REN
Stockholm native
5SWEDE
Pursue
5CHASE
Stop
4HALT
Puccini's "O mio babbino caro," e.g.
4ARIA
Kind of diagram with overlapping circles
4VENN
Antsy
6ONEDGE
One's employment pursuit
6CAREER
Bawl
3SOB
Places to hang clothes
7CLOSETS
Forum overseers
6ADMINS
The Scales, zodiacally
5LIBRA
Definitely
3YES
Certain golf or tennis tournament
4OPEN
Funny Ferrell or Rogers
4WILL
Slippery
4EELY
Scorcher
6HOTONE
Recurring thematic elements
6MOTIFS
Happy as a ____
4CLAM
City NE of Oklahoma City
5TULSA
Fields
5AREAS
The N.H.L. has 32
5TEAMS
Cartoon brawl sound effect
3OOF
Actress Greta of "Queen Christina"
5GARBO
Store, as ashes
5INURN
Dugout, e.g.
5CANOE
Complete series, maybe
6BOXSET
Gets by
6DOESOK
Solemn vow
4OATH
___ Guofeng, successor of Mao Zedong
3HUA
Like the score going into extra innings
7ALLTIED
Top to accompany a skirt
6BLOUSE
Like the fate of Ophelia
6TRAGIC
Peak
6ZENITH
See 37-Across
5ARROW
Cracked slightly, as a door
4AJAR
Word following bike or memory
4LANE
Look at carefully
4SCAN
Shallow singer Lady ___
4GAGA
Burden
4ONUS
Ailment that aptly rhymes with "eye"
4STYE
N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr.
3FGS
Top to accompany shorts
3TEE