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NYT Crossword Answers Mar 16, 2026

Complete answer list for the March 16, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 37

  1. 1"Throw me the ball, no one's covering me!" ↗IMOPEN
  2. 7Drone's sound ↗WHIR
  3. 11Cave-dwelling flier ↗BAT
  4. 14Galactic cloud ↗NEBULA
  5. 15Texas city that's home to Baylor University ↗WACO
  6. 16Broadcast ↗AIR
  7. 17*Forever ↗ADINFINITUM
  8. 19Deer mother? ↗DOE
  9. 20Brad of 2025's "F1" ↗PITT
  10. 21"In case it's of interest ...," in brief ↗FYI
  11. 22Plenty of ↗AMPLE
  12. 24Bugle tune ↗TAPS
  13. 25*One of a kind ↗SUIGENERIS
  14. 28Bronx-born congresswoman elected in 2018, familiarly ↗AOC
  15. 30"Great Red" feature of Jupiter ↗SPOT
  16. 31*Masterwork ↗MAGNUMOPUS
  17. 36Wide-eyed and eager ↗AGOG
  18. 40Go down to 0%, as a computer battery ↗DIE
  19. 41Allotment ↗PORTION
  20. 43"___ word?" ↗ANY
  21. 44SoCal sch. whose teams are the Aztecs ↗SDSU
  22. 46*After the event, as an analysis ↗POSTMORTEM
  23. 48Ball-___ hammer ↗PEEN
  24. 50Teeny-tiny ↗WEE
  25. 51*Reciprocal exchange ↗QUIDPROQUO
  26. 57Historian's focus ↗PAST
  27. 60"Me too," formally ↗ASDOI
  28. 61One might end with "com" or "org" ↗URL
  29. 62Water, in Juárez ↗AGUA
  30. 63___ chi ↗TAI
  31. 64Stereotypical charmers ... or those charmed by the answers to the starred clues? ↗LATINLOVERS
  32. 68Before today ↗AGO
  33. 69Gem mined in Australia ↗OPAL
  34. 70Exact retribution for ↗AVENGE
  35. 71Sleep cycle inits. ↗REM
  36. 72Chap ↗GENT
  37. 73Term of address for a nun ↗SISTER

Down 41

  1. 1Not suitable ↗INAPT
  2. 2Social ___ (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) ↗MEDIA
  3. 3Locales for the late news? ↗OBITPAGES
  4. 4Kicks down the road, as a decision ↗PUNTSON
  5. 5Santa's little helper ↗ELF
  6. 6Innocent sorts ↗NAIFS
  7. 7Hypothetical (one hopes!) global conflict, for short ↗WWIII
  8. 8Beanie or beret ↗HAT
  9. 9Carefully monitored hosp. area ↗ICU
  10. 10Italian cheese ↗ROMANO
  11. 11Negative press for a celeb, say ↗BADPR
  12. 12Condiment with lots of garlic ... and vowels ↗AIOLI
  13. 13Family diagrams ↗TREES
  14. 18Greenwich Village campus, in brief ↗NYU
  15. 23Like a book about writing a book, say ↗META
  16. 26Fighter pilot's garb ↗GSUIT
  17. 27___ salts ↗EPSOM
  18. 29Recipe unit ↗CUP
  19. 31Rx writers ↗MDS
  20. 32A helping hand ↗AID
  21. 33Sullen sort ↗MOPER
  22. 34City that's home to the University of Maine ↗ORONO
  23. 35Six for a touchdown: Abbr. ↗PTS
  24. 37Staffer in a flight terminal ↗GATEAGENT
  25. 38"All for ___ and ___ for all!" ↗ONE
  26. 39Workout site ↗GYM
  27. 42"Pronto!" ↗NOW
  28. 45Fancy coif ↗UPDO
  29. 47Improves, as a bike path ↗REPAVES
  30. 49Literary afterthought ↗EPILOG
  31. 51Mideast nation ruled by the House of Thani ↗QATAR
  32. 52Meter reading ↗USAGE
  33. 53"Talk turkey" or "eat crow" ↗IDIOM
  34. 54Warm bed covering ↗QUILT
  35. 55Still-life vessel ↗URN
  36. 56Earthen pots, from the Spanish ↗OLLAS
  37. 58Sudden increase ↗SURGE
  38. 59Weapon that stuns ↗TASER
  39. 65Tail-less primate ↗APE
  40. 66Beachgoer's "souvenir" ↗TAN
  41. 67Prefix meaning "egg" ↗OVI