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NYT Crossword — April 10, 2026

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 70 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

34 clues

1Phrase said indignantly before a citation

10Place with flasks and alcohol

13Nested birds?

14"___ Atardecer," Bad Bunny song whose name means "Another Sunset"

16"Argh! What is happening?"

19Philosopher Descartes

21French word in the middle of a name

23The flying fox is a type of one

24Site with a monument that gets around 7 million ticketed visitors a year

25Totally down (for)

27Topical application

29Like the glass in many a Dale Chihuly sculpture

32California's San ___ Island

35Beatles song with the lyric "I tried to telephone / They said you were not home / That's a lie"

36Privileged groups

39Remove, as from a cluttered container, with "out"

40Title derived from the Persian for "king"

43Anora's husband in "Anora"

44Sat ___ (GPS, to Brits)

46One that's hard to catch

47Church congresses

50Foe of Wonder Woman

51Cold shoulder, so to speak

55Get used to it

56Backup for a trapeze artist

57Popular antibiotic ointment

Down

36 clues

1Pop-punk band named after a video game company, with "The"

3Fully appreciating something

4Wait for a passenger, perhaps

7"___ From Muskogee" (Merle Haggard song)

8Within the realm of reason

9"Storage unit" of memory in the brain

10W.N.B.A. star Jewell ___

11C-store offering

12Comes in last

15Like the original Looney Tunes shorts, lengthwise

17Linked up with

18Like assassins and some sins

24Helical tools

26Actor Edward of "A Complete Unknown"

29Awesome, in slang

31Key ingredient in Bridget's blue soup, in "Bridget Jones's Diary"

32Dance wildly, in a way

35Legend of Zelda console inits.

37Split decision?

39Chinese gambling game invented during the Northern and Southern dynasties

41"That's true about me, right?"

44Big Apple media inits.

48Empire State Building's style, informally

49Pizza shop in "Do the Right Thing"

50Snowballs, sometimes

52Squeeze (out)

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Stats & info

Friday, Apr 10, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

35/190

Black / letter cells

5.4

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 10, 2026

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorErica Hsiung Wojcik

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split34 across · 36 down

Longest entries

16A"Argh! What is happening?"15 ltrs 51ACold shoulder, so to speak15 ltrs 3DFully appreciating something15 ltrs 12DComes in last15 ltrs 1APhrase said indignantly before a citation9 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 35 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.