Daily Puzzle Solution
NYT Crossword
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The New York Times crossword puzzle for Tuesday, September 29, 2026 features 78 clues. Today's puzzle has an average answer length of 4.8 letters. The longest answer is "SECONDHELPING".
Total Clues
78
Longest
SECONDHELPING
Avg Length
4.8
Shortest
OSU
Featured Clue
"Another plateful from the buffet, say"
13 Letters
SECONDHELPING
ALLComplete Solution List
Big ones can be difficult to manage
4EGOS
Urge
4PROD
British john
5ELTON
Nincompoop
4DOPE
Surrounding glow
4AURA
Who "wants to be defeated" in "Beat It"
5NOONE
Where some monster home runs land
9UPPERDECK
Language of the Vikings
5NORSE
Rich deposits of ore
5LODES
Home of the Buckeyes, for short
3OSU
Muslim holiday, informally
3EID
Scoped out with intent to rob
5CASED
Pretty long time, in an idiom
9HOTMINUTE
Battery fill
4ACID
Capital of Yemen
5SANAA
Copied
4APED
You ___! ("Absolutely!")
3BET
TERSE
4CURT
"I ___ U" (candy heart message)
3LUV
Another plateful from the buffet, say
13SECONDHELPING
Deposit/withdrawal site, in brief
3ATM
Board appointee, for short
4EXEC
Work unit
3ERG
Chief god of Valhalla
4ODIN
European viper
5ADDER
Greek goddess of the earth
4GAEA
Position of Rickey Henderson in M.L.B.
9LEFTFIELD
Storage units
5BYTES
Dad on "Black-ish"
3DRE
Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks"
3ODE
Indie rock singer ___ O
5KAREN
Couch
5DIVAN
Wedding officiant's directive ... or what both halves of 17-, 25-, 35- and 50-Across do?
9JOINHANDS
Unconcealed
5OVERT
Toll unit on some roads
4AXLE
Tour de France entry
4TEAM
Cooties
5GERMS
Hitch up on a farm
4YOKE
Ice cream brand that's a cousin of Dreyer's
4EDYS
Address ending that's not .com, .org or .gov
3EDU
Reach great heights in life
8GOPLACES
Like black and white
8OPPOSITE
Numbered in a tournament bracket
6SEEDED
Always at the pharmacy?
4PADS
Regret
3RUE
Middle-earth foe
3ORC
___ Territory: 1861-89
6DAKOTA
Ho-hum feeling
5ENNUI
British john
3LOO
Ripped to pieces
6TOREUP
Like not-work-from-home days
6ONSITE
Had to have
6NEEDED
Visibly embarrassed, say
3RED
Like subcompacts vis-à-vis compacts
7SMALLER
What can travel a fare distance?
3CAB
Brain-busting
4HARD
Just between us
7ONTHEDL
Blue race in "Avatar"
4NAVI
Raisin brand whose containers feature a girl in a red bonnet
7SUNMAID
Hotel request
3COT
Scanned lines, for short
3UPC
"If you ___ stand the heat ..."
4CANT
Crossed (out)
4EXED
Made nice
8NEATENED
Band with the 6x platinum album "American Idiot"
8GREENDAY
Pit stop refill
3GAS
Subject of a saying about new tricks
6OLDDOG
Infer from
6DERIVE
Perhaps not at all
6IFEVER
Spinner of tunes
6DEEJAY
Move like Shakira in her "Hips Don't Lie" video
6GYRATE
Courier and Century Gothic, for two
5FONTS
Nuts
3BAH
Achy joint for a floor installer, perhaps
4KNEE
Pitcher's asset
3ARM
Kitchen brand that could be an unsuccessful tic-tac-toe line
3OXO
Sort
3ILK
Texting format, for short
3SMS