NYT CROSSWORD • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026
NYT Crossword Answers Apr 8, 2026
Complete answer list for the April 8, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.
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Across 41
- 1"I'm afraid not," quaintly ↗ALASNO
- 7Food brand for Fido ↗ALPO
- 11Like major-city airports, typically: Abbr. ↗INTL
- 15Cash in ↗REDEEM
- 16Avocado dip, informally ↗GUAC
- 17Take a risk ↗DARE
- 18Audience's reverent response to a symphony finale? ↗CODASILENCE
- 20Keenly interested ↗AVID
- 21Shakespearean "soon" ↗ANON
- 22That certain je ne sais quoi in Beethoven's "Moonlight"? ↗SONATATHING
- 24Commotion ↗DIN
- 25Measure of college readiness, for short ↗PSAT
- 26Knuckled rub to the scalp ↗NOOGIE
- 27Publishing house workers: Abbr. ↗EDS
- 28Goal ↗AIM
- 29Wood-shaping hand tool ↗RASP
- 31Tagging symbols ↗ATS
- 32___-Magnon ↗CRO
- 33Vegas opener? ↗LAS
- 34Perry of pop ↗KATY
- 36Opportunity for a choral understudy? ↗STANZACHANCE
- 39Belgrade native ↗SERB
- 40"Beats me," in a text ↗IDK
- 41Caviar, essentially ↗ROE
- 42Miss Piggy, for one ↗SOW
- 43Assns. ↗ORGS
- 45Extended comedic riff ↗BIT
- 46Hindi for "rule" ↗RAJ
- 49Chant heard at the start of "Hot Hot Hot" ↗OLEOLE
- 51Girl in Glasgow ↗LASS
- 52Alias initialism ↗AKA
- 53When to play a note with sudden strong emphasis? ↗FORZAMOMENT
- 56"Groovy, man" ↗IDIG
- 57Popular flavor of bubble tea ↗TARO
- 58"What's Opera, Doc?," e.g.? ↗ARIAKIDDING
- 60Volunteer's offer ↗ICAN
- 61Hits hard ↗RAMS
- 62Respond, as a pupil might ↗DILATE
- 63Ending with kitchen ↗ETTE
- 64Painter Paul ↗KLEE
- 65Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4 ↗EMINOR
Down 38
- 1Covered passageway ↗ARCADE
- 2Meteor in a November shower ↗LEONID
- 3Enhancing accessories ↗ADDONS
- 4Actor Astin of the "Lord of the Rings" films ↗SEAN
- 5Original Super Mario Bros. console ↗NES
- 6Oversight ↗OMISSION
- 7Author's representative ↗AGENT
- 8Moon over Managua ↗LUNA
- 9Treaty ↗PACT
- 10What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have ↗OCEANS
- 11The Gem State ↗IDAHO
- 12Find one's way ↗NAVIGATE
- 13Dublin college founded in 1592 ↗TRINITY
- 14Apartment planter sites, perhaps ↗LEDGES
- 19Good gardening soil ↗LOAM
- 23Traditional samurai hairstyles ↗TOPKNOTS
- 25Graph of y = ax^2 + bx + c, for example ↗PARABOLA
- 29Frame for a game of pool ↗RACK
- 30Forehead marking at the start of Lent ↗ASH
- 32Convention bldg., in a mailing address ↗CTR
- 33Dudes, in British English ↗LADS
- 35Big name in hardware stores ↗ACE
- 36Underground scurrier ↗SEWERRAT
- 37Half of a darting motion ↗ZIG
- 38Jean-Bertrand ___, 1990s Haitian leader ↗ARISTIDE
- 39One-man band, for example ↗SOLOACT
- 42Sentimental sort ↗SOFTIE
- 44Comment ↗REMARK
- 45Make ___ (earn vast sums) ↗BANK
- 46Unit of angular measurement ↗RADIAN
- 47Like ↗AKINTO
- 48Rolling Stones frontman ↗JAGGER
- 50Absorber of UV light ↗OZONE
- 51Charter ↗LEASE
- 54Word with cavity or contraceptive ↗ORAL
- 55One acting rather quiet? ↗MIME
- 56Savory South Asian rice cake ↗IDLI
- 59Lower, as lights ↗DIM