NYT CROSSWORD • TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Mar 31, 2026

Complete answer list for the March 31, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Ryan Patrick SmithEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1"The Planets" composer ↗HOLST
  2. 6About 746 of these equal one horsepower ↗WATTS
  3. 11Colorado Plateau people ↗UTE
  4. 14Sign in a TV studio ↗ONAIR
  5. 15Kirin competitor ↗ASAHI
  6. 16Something entered into an A.T.M. ↗PIN
  7. 172003 crime drama adapted from a Dennis Lehane novel ↗MYSTICRIVER
  8. 19___ Bo (exercise regimen popularized via VHS tapes) ↗TAE
  9. 20List in Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next" ↗EXES
  10. 21Direct (to) ↗REFER
  11. 22Middle-of-the-bell-curve result ↗NORM
  12. 23Swimmer in a Japanese garden ↗KOI
  13. 25Fled the scene ↗RANAWAY
  14. 27Six Flags location that was the first amusement park to offer 20 roller coasters ↗MAGICMOUNTAIN
  15. 32Chicken ___ king ↗ALA
  16. 33Admissions overseer, maybe ↗DEAN
  17. 34Stake ↗WAGER
  18. 37The "1" in a 9-1 record ↗LOSS
  19. 39Typeface that sounds like the name of a Disney princess ↗ARIAL
  20. 42___ wolf (extinct canine once prevalent across North America) ↗DIRE
  21. 43Attire in the old Roman Senate ↗TOGAS
  22. 45Sign of things to come ↗OMEN
  23. 47Crater's edge ↗RIM
  24. 48Concept explaining why certain humanoid robots look so unsettling ↗UNCANNYVALLEY
  25. 52Cloudy craft beer ↗HAZYIPA
  26. 54Mediator between the id and the ideal, in Freudian psychology ↗EGO
  27. 55Pasta that resembles rice ↗ORZO
  28. 56Knuckle-cracking or clipping nails in public, to some ↗PEEVE
  29. 59"hahaha!" ↗LMAO
  30. 63Kenan's bestie on a 1990s sitcom ↗KEL
  31. 64Utopian expanse ... a map of which might include 17-, 27- and 48-Across? ↗FANTASYLAND
  32. 66French 101 article ↗UNE
  33. 67Something to raise in a crisis ↗ALARM
  34. 68Like flapjacks and Frisbees ↗ROUND
  35. 69Damage ↗MAR
  36. 70Censor, informally ↗BLEEP
  37. 71Undercover operatives ↗SPIES

Down 41

  1. 1"E.T. phone ___" ↗HOME
  2. 2Banded mineral seen at many a street fair ↗ONYX
  3. 3Produce coherent light ↗LASE
  4. 4Piece of equipment for a Winter Paralympian ↗SITSKI
  5. 5Muscle strengthened by dips, familiarly ↗TRI
  6. 6Ending with kitchen or earthen ↗WARE
  7. 7"Dream on!" ↗ASIF
  8. 8Establishment where a D&D party might refuel and pick up new leads ↗TAVERN
  9. 9What 2020 was a year of, in the Chinese zodiac ↗THERAT
  10. 10"Aaron Burr, ___" ("Hamilton" number) ↗SIR
  11. 11Billy Joel title character who's "been living in her white bread world" ↗UPTOWNGIRL
  12. 12Headwear for Wonder Woman ↗TIARA
  13. 13Antagonist ↗ENEMY
  14. 18Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014 ↗CRIMEA
  15. 22Water nymph of Greek myth ↗NAIAD
  16. 24Anxious condition, in brief ↗OCD
  17. 26Rural turndown ↗NAW
  18. 27Soda fountain order ↗MALT
  19. 28Potatoes, in Indian cuisine ↗ALOO
  20. 29Vehicle with low fuel efficiency, in slang ↗GASGUZZLER
  21. 30Longboat propeller ↗OAR
  22. 31International Longshoremen's Association, e.g. ↗UNION
  23. 35Lake separating Ohio from Ontario ↗ERIE
  24. 36Rapper ___ Ma ↗REMY
  25. 38Panasonic acquisition of 2009 ↗SANYO
  26. 40"Inside ___ Schumer" (sketch comedy series) ↗AMY
  27. 41Embankments protecting New Orleans ↗LEVEES
  28. 44Biol. or chem. ↗SCI
  29. 46One who's constantly telling you to do this and do that ↗NAG
  30. 49Horrify ↗APPALL
  31. 502010s dance fad with a reduplicative name ↗NAENAE
  32. 51Bound along clumsily ↗LOLLOP
  33. 52Malarkey ↗HOKUM
  34. 53Venue for a boss fight ↗ARENA
  35. 57French 101 verb ↗ETRE
  36. 58Extemporize to fill time, say ↗VAMP
  37. 60Hawaii's second-largest island ↗MAUI
  38. 61Frank of diary fame ↗ANNE
  39. 62Bookie's determination ↗ODDS
  40. 64___ Five (advisers on "Queer Eye") ↗FAB
  41. 65Decade makeup: Abbr. ↗YRS