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NYT Crossword Answers Sep 29, 2026

Complete answer list for the September 29, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Hanh HuynhEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 39

  1. 1Big ones can be difficult to manage ↗EGOS
  2. 5Urge ↗PROD
  3. 9British John ↗ELTON
  4. 14Nincompoop ↗DOPE
  5. 15Surrounding glow ↗AURA
  6. 16Who "wants to be defeated" in "Beat It" ↗NOONE
  7. 17Where some monster home runs land ↗UPPERDECK
  8. 19Language of the Vikings ↗NORSE
  9. 20Rich deposits of ore ↗LODES
  10. 21Home of the Buckeyes, for short ↗OSU
  11. 23Muslim holiday, informally ↗EID
  12. 24Scoped out with intent to rob ↗CASED
  13. 25Pretty long time, in an idiom ↗HOTMINUTE
  14. 28Battery fill ↗ACID
  15. 29Capital of Yemen ↗SANAA
  16. 30Copied ↗APED
  17. 31"You ___!" ("Absolutely!") ↗BET
  18. 32Terse ↗CURT
  19. 33"I ___ U" (candy heart message) ↗LUV
  20. 35Another plateful from the buffet, say ↗SECONDHELPING
  21. 40Deposit/withdrawal site, in brief ↗ATM
  22. 41Board appointee, for short ↗EXEC
  23. 42Work unit ↗ERG
  24. 44Chief god of Valhalla ↗ODIN
  25. 47European viper ↗ADDER
  26. 49Greek goddess of the earth ↗GAEA
  27. 50Position of Rickey Henderson in M.L.B. ↗LEFTFIELD
  28. 52Storage units ↗BYTES
  29. 53Dad on "Black-ish" ↗DRE
  30. 54Pablo Neruda's "___ to My Socks" ↗ODE
  31. 55Indie rock singer ___ O ↗KAREN
  32. 56Couch ↗DIVAN
  33. 58Wedding officiant's directive ... or what both halves of 17-, 25-, 35- and 50-Across do? ↗JOINHANDS
  34. 62Unconcealed ↗OVERT
  35. 63Toll unit on some roads ↗AXLE
  36. 64Tour de France entry ↗TEAM
  37. 65"Cooties" ↗GERMS
  38. 66Hitch up on a farm ↗YOKE
  39. 67Ice cream brand that's a cousin of Dreyer's ↗EDYS

Down 39

  1. 1Address ending that's not .com, .org or .gov ↗EDU
  2. 2Reach great heights in life ↗GOPLACES
  3. 3Like black and white ↗OPPOSITE
  4. 4Numbered in a tournament bracket ↗SEEDED
  5. 5Always at the pharmacy? ↗PADS
  6. 6Regret ↗RUE
  7. 7Middle-earth foe ↗ORC
  8. 8___ Territory, 1861-89 ↗DAKOTA
  9. 9Ho-hum feeling ↗ENNUI
  10. 10British john ↗LOO
  11. 11Ripped to pieces ↗TOREUP
  12. 12Like not-work-from-home days ↗ONSITE
  13. 13Had to have ↗NEEDED
  14. 18Visibly embarrassed, say ↗RED
  15. 22Like subcompacts vis-à-vis compacts ↗SMALLER
  16. 24What can travel a fare distance? ↗CAB
  17. 25Brain-busting ↗HARD
  18. 26Just between us ↗ONTHEDL
  19. 27Blue race in "Avatar" ↗NAVI
  20. 29Raisin brand whose containers feature a girl in a red bonnet ↗SUNMAID
  21. 32Hotel request ↗COT
  22. 34Scanned lines, for short ↗UPC
  23. 36"If you ___ stand the heat ..." ↗CANT
  24. 37Crossed (out) ↗EXED
  25. 38Made nice? ↗NEATENED
  26. 39Band with the 6x platinum album "American Idiot" ↗GREENDAY
  27. 43Pit stop refill ↗GAS
  28. 44Subject of a saying about new tricks ↗OLDDOG
  29. 45Infer (from) ↗DERIVE
  30. 46Perhaps not at all ↗IFEVER
  31. 48Spinner of tunes ↗DEEJAY
  32. 49Move like Shakira in her "Hips Don't Lie" video ↗GYRATE
  33. 51Courier and Century Gothic, for two ↗FONTS
  34. 52"Nuts!" ↗BAH
  35. 55Achy joint for a floor installer, perhaps ↗KNEE
  36. 57Pitcher's asset ↗ARM
  37. 59Kitchen brand that could be an unsuccessful tic-tac-toe line ↗OXO
  38. 60Sort ↗ILK
  39. 61Texting format, for short ↗SMS