NYT CROSSWORD • SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Apr 11, 2026

Complete answer list for the April 11, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Kareem AyasEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1568 clues

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Across 29

  1. 1"How telling" ↗THATSAYSALOT
  2. 13Rued remark? ↗WHATHAVEIDONE
  3. 14Question to one who's down ↗WHYTHELONGFACE
  4. 15There's a Black, White and Red one ↗SEA
  5. 16"Such a blast!" ↗SOFUN
  6. 17Buff bros ↗HEMEN
  7. 18Maintained, as a position ↗HELD
  8. 20Part of E.S.T.: Abbr. ↗STD
  9. 21Downed ↗ATE
  10. 22They have sticking points in competition ↗EPEES
  11. 24Some gaming centers, in brief ↗PCS
  12. 25"Darn it!" ↗MAN
  13. 28Arboreal symbol in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" ↗POPLARTREE
  14. 32Fulfill ... or fill ↗SATE
  15. 33Give a very wide berth ↗AVOIDATALLCOSTS
  16. 35Heading in a wine list ↗REDS
  17. 36A significant accomplishment ↗NOMEANFEAT
  18. 37House and Howser: Abbr. ↗DRS
  19. 38___-eared ↗LOP
  20. 39Figures in a speed trap? ↗NARCS
  21. 40Something most people have memorized ↗PIN
  22. 41Iowa college ↗COE
  23. 44Writer of "Esmé" and "The Open Window" ↗SAKI
  24. 45Not a good way to run? ↗AFOUL
  25. 48Old Syrian political party whose name means "resurrection" ↗BAATH
  26. 50X ↗TEN
  27. 51Flip remark? ↗CALLITINTHEAIR
  28. 54"Saturday Night Live" features that aren't live ↗DIGITALSHORTS
  29. 55Term for an ambiguously worded news headline ↗CRASHBLOSSOM

Down 39

  1. 1Your of yore ↗THY
  2. 2They're tipped out of respect ↗HATS
  3. 3Alexandre Dumas's Count de la Fère ↗ATHOS
  4. 4It's a steal! ↗THEFT
  5. 5Spanish blessing ↗SALUD
  6. 6Big publisher of romance novels ↗AVON
  7. 7Hunger ↗YEN
  8. 8Aiming mechanisms on bows ↗SIGHTS
  9. 9Plug amount ↗ADFEE
  10. 10Moldable soil ↗LOAM
  11. 11At some time ↗ONCE
  12. 12___ idol ↗TEEN
  13. 13Groups studied by cetologists ↗WHALEPODS
  14. 14Become inconsolable about ↗WEEPOVER
  15. 15"True West" playwright Sam ↗SHEPARD
  16. 19Providers of chops and chips ↗DELIS
  17. 21Line running roughly parallel to Interstate 95 ↗ACELA
  18. 23Disconsolate ↗SAD
  19. 24"The King of Football" ↗PELE
  20. 25Cars with a trident logo ↗MASERATIS
  21. 26Person playing forward ↗ATTACKER
  22. 27Calls home, as a bird might ↗NESTSIN
  23. 29Gabbed, gabbed, gabbed ↗RANON
  24. 30Car roof with removable panels ↗TTOP
  25. 31Farm male ↗RAM
  26. 32Remote locations ↗SOFAS
  27. 34TV channel that has received a Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech ↗CNN
  28. 38Adam's first wife, in Jewish myth ↗LILITH
  29. 40Hungarian sheepdogs ↗PULIS
  30. 41Schoolyard retort ↗CANSO
  31. 42Vows you may stand for ↗OATHS
  32. 43Spirit of an era ↗ETHOS
  33. 45Down Under band with 10 multiplatinum albums ↗ACDC
  34. 46All right ↗FAIR
  35. 47___ Tokarczuk, 2018 Literature Nobelist ↗OLGA
  36. 48Unwanted bit of mail ↗BILL
  37. 49"Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald ↗HERO
  38. 52Something you owe ↗TAB
  39. 53Producer of notes ↗ATM