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NYT Crossword Answers Mar 11, 2026

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

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Across 33

  1. 1Clause separator ↗COMMA
  2. 6Channel showing committee hearings ↗CSPAN
  3. 11Request ↗ASK
  4. 14Winning, for the moment ↗AHEAD
  5. 15"Don Giovanni" genre ↗OPERA
  6. 16Container for sardines ↗TIN
  7. 17In 1968, Spencer Silver at 3M Corporation was attempting to develop a superstrong adhesive ... ↗POSTITNOTES
  8. 19Musician Yoko ↗ONO
  9. 20One in a hundred ↗SENATOR
  10. 21Alternative to fries, maybe ↗SLAW
  11. 22___-color pasta ↗TRI
  12. 24In 1928, Alexander Fleming at St. Mary's Hospital in London found mold in his cultures of staphylococcus bacteria ... ↗PENICILLIN
  13. 27Vulgar ↗COARSE
  14. 30Answer to the riddle ending "How many are going to St. Ives?" ↗ONE
  15. 31"Olympia" painter ↗MANET
  16. 32Ran out, as time ↗ELAPSED
  17. 36In 1945, Percy Spencer at the Raytheon Manufacturing Company noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted close to a magnetron ... ↗MICROWAVEOVEN
  18. 39Language in which "computer" is made up of the characters for "electric" and "brain" ↗CHINESE
  19. 40Take one's foot off the gas ↗LETUP
  20. 42Kwik-E-Mart proprietor on "The Simpsons" ↗APU
  21. 43Attacks ↗BESETS
  22. 44In 1943, James Wright at General Electric was attempting to develop synthetic rubber for the war effort ... ↗SILLYPUTTY
  23. 50Inits. on a police forensic van ↗CSI
  24. 51Racetrack shape ↗OVAL
  25. 52Like Mercury among all the planets vis-à-vis the sun ↗NEAREST
  26. 55One to build on ↗LOT
  27. 56Happy chance, as illustrated by the four invention stories at 17-, 24-, 36- and 44-Across ↗SERENDIPITY
  28. 60Singer Garfunkel ↗ART
  29. 61Update, as the Constitution ↗AMEND
  30. 62Vaudeville show ↗REVUE
  31. 63Deli bread option ↗RYE
  32. 64___-turvy ↗TOPSY
  33. 65Paradises ↗EDENS

Down 41

  1. 1Upper limit ↗CAP
  2. 2"Well, that's a surprise!" ↗OHO
  3. 3Marked by a religious zeal ↗MESSIANIC
  4. 4Join ↗MATE
  5. 5Tennis score after deuce ↗ADIN
  6. 6Old French tale ↗CONTE
  7. 7With whom the dish ran away in "Hey Diddle Diddle" ↗SPOON
  8. 8___ dish ↗PETRI
  9. 9Exist ↗ARE
  10. 10Rapper Lil ___ X ↗NAS
  11. 11Part of Micronesia ↗ATOLL
  12. 12Mount associated with Moses ↗SINAI
  13. 13Recognized ↗KNOWN
  14. 18Wrap for an athlete's injury ↗TAPE
  15. 21Things a vest lacks ↗SLEEVES
  16. 22Channel for old westerns ↗TCM
  17. 23Wander ↗ROAM
  18. 25Deal (with) ↗COPE
  19. 26Shoe part ↗INSOLE
  20. 28Community center for games and activities ↗RECHALL
  21. 29Having streaks ↗STRIPY
  22. 32Producer of milk for Roquefort cheese ↗EWE
  23. 33"___ Culturistas" (popular podcast) ↗LAS
  24. 34Street sign abbr. ↗AVE
  25. 35Clue examiner ↗DETECTIVE
  26. 37"Movin' ___" ("The Jeffersons" theme song) ↗ONUP
  27. 38McAuliffe's one-word reply to a German commander's demand of surrender ↗NUTS
  28. 41Tire inflation meas. ↗PSI
  29. 43Polar explorer Richard ↗BYRD
  30. 44Certain renewable energy ↗SOLAR
  31. 45Shade of off-white ↗IVORY
  32. 46Milky coffee drink ↗LATTE
  33. 47General Assembly participant, for short ↗UNREP
  34. 48Many first-time smartphone owners ↗TEENS
  35. 49Jessica who won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy" ↗TANDY
  36. 53Ireland, to the Irish ↗EIRE
  37. 54Hightailed it ↗SPED
  38. 56Exam for college applicants ↗SAT
  39. 57Angsty ↗EMO
  40. 58Large cask ↗TUN
  41. 59"For sure!" ↗YES