NYT CROSSWORD • THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers May 28, 2026

Complete answer list for the May 28, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By John KugelmanEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1570 clues

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Across 36

  1. 1Surname of two Indian prime ministers ↗GANDHI
  2. 7Fly-by-night types? ↗OWLS
  3. 11Go (for) ↗OPT
  4. 14Drew Carey, Halle Berry or Guy Fieri, originally ↗OHIOAN
  5. 15Baroque instrument ↗VIOL
  6. 16Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly) ↗HOE
  7. 17Walking-around money for Pavarotti? ↗TENORTWENTY
  8. 19Veto ↗NIX
  9. 20Whistling stickup man on "The Wire" ↗OMAR
  10. 21Cry of frustration ↗AARGH
  11. 22McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B. ↗SOSA
  12. 23Hajj destination ↗MECCA
  13. 25Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s ↗ASTROS
  14. 27Preacher's gift? ↗PASTORPRESENT
  15. 29Fly catcher? ↗MITT
  16. 30Kind of a drag? ↗MAIN
  17. 31Parrot ↗APE
  18. 32Perceptive ↗SENSATE
  19. 35Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station ↗ROSSSEA
  20. 37Get ___ (shine scholastically) ↗ANA
  21. 38Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly ↗DELT
  22. 40Billionaire Musk ↗ELON
  23. 415 and 8 go into 42, for example? ↗FACTORFICTION
  24. 45Fan of "I" statements ↗EGOIST
  25. 46Dissect with a diagram ↗PARSE
  26. 47"___, actually ..." ↗WELL
  27. 48Start of many first-year course names ↗INTRO
  28. 50Lawman who got out of Dodge ↗EARP
  29. 5460 minuti ↗ORA
  30. 55Local leader is prohibited? ↗MAYORMAYNOT
  31. 57Clear ↗RID
  32. 58Bum around Europe ↗ARSE
  33. 59Intentional creases ↗PLEATS
  34. 60Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad" ↗DEA
  35. 61Changes the locks? ↗DYES
  36. 62Acted all crabby? ↗SIDLED

Down 34

  1. 1Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code ↗GOTO
  2. 2[Excuse me] ↗AHEM
  3. 3Totenberg of public radio ↗NINA
  4. 4People who get walked all over ↗DOORMATS
  5. 5Bit of a laugh ↗HAR
  6. 6Not separated ↗INTACT
  7. 7Throwing style ↗OVERARM
  8. 8Bit of a lark ↗WING
  9. 9Lady-killer ↗LOTHARIO
  10. 10Machiavellian, in a way ↗SLY
  11. 11Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?" ↗OHNOREASON
  12. 12Written with venom ↗POISONPEN
  13. 13Oil, they say ↗TEXASTEA
  14. 18Birthplace of Dr Pepper ↗WACO
  15. 22Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two ↗STS
  16. 24México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others ↗ESTADOS
  17. 26Guardians of bushido tradition ↗SENSEIS
  18. 27National drink of Puerto Rico ↗PINACOLADA
  19. 28Two, for many a putt-putt hole ↗PAR
  20. 29It's a zoo out there ↗MENAGERIE
  21. 32Blue stop sign? ↗SAFEWORD
  22. 33Third in order ↗TERTIARY
  23. 34Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien ↗ELF
  24. 36Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze ↗SLOEEYED
  25. 39Comes on little cat feet ↗TIPTOES
  26. 42"___ death do us part" ↗TIL
  27. 43Comedian Jimmy ↗CARR
  28. 44Opposite of 39-Down ↗TROMPS
  29. 49Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines) ↗NYSE
  30. 51Fussbudgety, say ↗ANAL
  31. 52Mindless repetition ↗ROTE
  32. 53Affliction for many first responders, in brief ↗PTSD
  33. 55"Spy vs. Spy" magazine ↗MAD
  34. 56Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick" ↗ALI