NYT CROSSWORD • FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Mar 27, 2026

Complete answer list for the March 27, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

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Across 33

  1. 1Decorative, so to speak ↗JUSTFORSHOW
  2. 12"Local Equals Fresh" sloganeer ↗IGA
  3. 15Ahead ↗INTHEFUTURE
  4. 16E, in a code ↗DIT
  5. 17Affliction also known as "cold neuralgia" ↗BRAINFREEZE
  6. 183,600 secondi ↗ORA
  7. 19Computer runs ↗JOBS
  8. 20Company acquired by Panasonic in 2009 ↗SANYO
  9. 21Malarkey ↗BULL
  10. 22"Do we have a problem here?" ↗ALLOK
  11. 24L.A. subdivision? ↗LOS
  12. 25Epithet for Bill Clinton ↗BUBBA
  13. 26Some coffee merchants' offerings ↗BLENDS
  14. 28Hackman's "The Royal Tenenbaums" co-star ↗HUSTON
  15. 29One whose work is barely seen? ↗EROTICARTIST
  16. 33"You should keep those details to yourself" ↗TMI
  17. 36Slightly off ↗ABITODD
  18. 37Org. that releases an annual list of the year's most interesting contraband ↗TSA
  19. 38Some brunch dishes ↗HAMOMELETTES
  20. 41Restraining maneuver in judo ↗ARMBAR
  21. 42How journalists and detectives may act ↗ONATIP
  22. 46Firs and beeches, but not furs and beaches ↗TREES
  23. 47Tahoe runner ↗MAC
  24. 50Treat that occasionally catches fire ↗SMORE
  25. 51Light ↗AIRY
  26. 52Kitchen gizmo ↗PARER
  27. 54Bit of bellyaching ↗MOAN
  28. 55Served as ↗WAS
  29. 56"You win, all right? Geez!" ↗DONTRUBITIN
  30. 58Store in oak casks, say ↗AGE
  31. 59Spoke before the court ↗ARGUEDACASE
  32. 60No no ↗YES
  33. 61Totally missing the big picture ↗NEARSIGHTED

Down 37

  1. 1E-card site with a reduplicative name ↗JIBJAB
  2. 2Spread ↗UNROLL
  3. 3Like noble gases, chemically ↗STABLE
  4. 4Nearest item to pick ↗THISONE
  5. 5Land consisting predominantly of sedges ↗FEN
  6. 6Drop-___ ↗OFFS
  7. 7Like 97% of the United States, per the Census Bureau ↗RURAL
  8. 8Old hand at shorthand ↗STENO
  9. 9Some choppers ↗HUEYS
  10. 10Dish whose name means "barley" in Italian ↗ORZO
  11. 11Lilliputian ↗WEE
  12. 12"Seems suspect" ↗IDOUBTIT
  13. 13Reductive neologism for a strong female lead ↗GIRLBOSS
  14. 14Figure in Greek mythology who was brought up by a bear ↗ATALANTA
  15. 21Hit 22, say ↗BUST
  16. 23"Squid Game" and "The Red Sleeve," for two ↗KDRAMAS
  17. 25Crosses to bear ↗BURDENS
  18. 27Unlit? ↗SOBER
  19. 28Lacked an alternative ↗HADTO
  20. 30Before, informally ↗TIL
  21. 31Suburban attachment? ↗ITE
  22. 32Camp bed ↗COT
  23. 33Direction in many a spaghetti western ↗THATAWAY
  24. 34Zsa Zsa Gabor entered into it nine times ↗MARRIAGE
  25. 35Dunks ↗IMMERSES
  26. 39Rebel's opposite ↗OBEY
  27. 40PB&J, e.g., informally ↗SAMMICH
  28. 43Greet with a beep ↗TOOTAT
  29. 44Bluffer's pronouncement, maybe ↗IRAISE
  30. 45Put down on paper ↗PENNED
  31. 47Comics often printed in black and white ↗MANGA
  32. 48Pianist Rubinstein ↗ARTUR
  33. 49Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ↗CERES
  34. 52Tiny opening ↗PORE
  35. 53George's computer friend on "The Jetsons" ↗RUDI
  36. 56N.F.L. coach Quinn ↗DAN
  37. 57Forte, slangily ↗BAG