NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Sep 28, 2026

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

By Helen ChenEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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The Grid

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Across 38

  1. 1Widespread disorder ↗HAVOC
  2. 6Like the exteriors of armadillos ↗SCALY
  3. 11Fall behind in payments ↗OWE
  4. 14Boxing locale ↗ARENA
  5. 15Classic radio song ↗OLDIE
  6. 16Dessert with a crust ↗PIE
  7. 17Solid baseball hit ↗LINER
  8. 18Complete shocker ↗BOMBSHELL
  9. 20Bicycle built for two ↗TANDEM
  10. 22Round Table title ↗SIR
  11. 23"___ time will tell" ↗ONLY
  12. 24Prefix with physics or thermal ↗GEO
  13. 25Make into law ↗ENACT
  14. 27Alternative to French fries ↗TATERTOTS
  15. 31Skill needed to solve sudoku ↗LOGIC
  16. 35Suffix with fail or forfeit ↗URE
  17. 36Apple platform ↗IOS
  18. 37"Time flies like an [50-Down]; fruit flies like a ___" ↗BANANA
  19. 38With 41-Across, ball hit out of the park by the very first batter for either side … or a hint to the starts of 18-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across ↗LEADOFF
  20. 41See 38-Across ↗HOMERUN
  21. 42Coconut Girl Scout cookies ↗SAMOAS
  22. 43"La Cage ___ Folles" ↗AUX
  23. 44Frat member ↗BRO
  24. 45Liability's opposite ↗ASSET
  25. 46Detonation region ↗BLASTZONE
  26. 49"___ I compare thee to a summer's day?": Shak. ↗SHALL
  27. 51Before, poetically ↗ERE
  28. 52What's more ↗ALSO
  29. 55Spoil ↗ROT
  30. 56Performs a stylish ballroom dance ↗TANGOS
  31. 60Tropical tree whose product is sometimes used as a meat substitute ↗JACKFRUIT
  32. 63San Francisco ballplayer ↗GIANT
  33. 64Actress de Armas ↗ANA
  34. 65"Take a look!" ↗GOSEE
  35. 66Helper for computer problems, informally ↗ITGUY
  36. 67Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" ↗REN
  37. 68Stockholm native ↗SWEDE
  38. 69Pursue ↗CHASE

Down 40

  1. 1"Stop!" ↗HALT
  2. 2Puccini's "O mio babbino caro," e.g. ↗ARIA
  3. 3Kind of diagram with overlapping circles ↗VENN
  4. 4Antsy ↗ONEDGE
  5. 5One's employment pursuit ↗CAREER
  6. 6Bawl ↗SOB
  7. 7Places to hang clothes ↗CLOSETS
  8. 8Forum overseers ↗ADMINS
  9. 9The Scales, zodiacally ↗LIBRA
  10. 10"Definitely!" ↗YES
  11. 11Certain golf or tennis tournament ↗OPEN
  12. 12Funny Ferrell or Rogers ↗WILL
  13. 13Slippery ↗EELY
  14. 19Scorcher ↗HOTONE
  15. 21Recurring thematic elements ↗MOTIFS
  16. 26Happy as a ___ ↗CLAM
  17. 27City NE of Oklahoma City ↗TULSA
  18. 28Fields ↗AREAS
  19. 29The N.H.L. has 32 ↗TEAMS
  20. 30Cartoon brawl sound effect ↗OOF
  21. 32Actress Greta of "Queen Christina" ↗GARBO
  22. 33Store, as ashes ↗INURN
  23. 34Dugout, e.g. ↗CANOE
  24. 37Complete series, maybe ↗BOXSET
  25. 39Gets by ↗DOESOK
  26. 40Solemn vow ↗OATH
  27. 41___ Guofeng, successor of Mao Zedong ↗HUA
  28. 43Like the score going into extra innings ↗ALLTIED
  29. 46Top to accompany a skirt ↗BLOUSE
  30. 47Like the fate of Ophelia ↗TRAGIC
  31. 48Peak ↗ZENITH
  32. 50See 37-Across ↗ARROW
  33. 52Cracked slightly, as a door ↗AJAR
  34. 53Word following bike or memory ↗LANE
  35. 54Look at carefully ↗SCAN
  36. 57"Shallow" singer Lady ___ ↗GAGA
  37. 58Burden ↗ONUS
  38. 59Ailment that aptly rhymes with "eye" ↗STYE
  39. 61N.F.L. three-pointers: Abbr. ↗FGS
  40. 62Top to accompany shorts ↗TEE