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NYT Crossword — April 15, 2026

Wednesday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 74 clues. The full solution is below — answers stay masked until you reveal them, one clue or all at once.

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Across

37 clues

1Playbill groups

6"He's very modest — he has a lot to be modest about," e.g.

10Like an enthusiast

14Tokyo-based brewery

15Musical instrument whose second syllable sounds like a part of other musical instruments

16Snackable seaweed

17Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

19Aussie greeting

21One reason to pucker up

22Its antlers can grow up to an inch per day

23Cheese tested as cannon ammunition on "MythBusters" (it didn't work)

25How two people might walk

29Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

32Get into a get-up

34Gold, at the Milano Cortina Olympics

36Sheriff's backup

38Tech review site

39"I love," in Italian and Spanish

40Veg out in a spa?

41Works out, say

43Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

46Russian revolutionary of the early 1900s

47Longtime Yankee nickname

48"___ to the West Wind"

49Isle in Scotland's Inner Hebrides

51"It's fun to stay at the ___" (1978 lyric)

55Presidential power

57Put all the bold letters in this clue together?

59Blizzard ingredient

60English singer Parks

61Potato-based Hanukkah serving

62Heartfelt, say

64Parts of a copse

Down

37 clues

1Hunter's attire, informally

3Drink that's often served hot in the winter

4When and where, in slang

5One-named singer with the 2022 hit "Unstoppable"

6The moment of truth

7Bird with a long, downward-curving bill

9"Holy cannoli!"

10Geometers' calculations

11Clear cocktail often served with lime

12Apt letters missing from ret_ _ement pl_n

13Like some remodels, for short

18Genre for Blink-182 and Sum 41

22Toy inventer Rubik

24Bit of Morse code

26Completely beat

27Like a glassy lake

28Puts on display, with "out"

30Big name in plumbing

31Photographer Adams

32Woodworking or glass blowing

37"All right, I'm convinced"

38Milky Way or Mars

42Indian P.M. of the 1990s

44Destination for Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings"

45Tried not to draw attention

50Letter between Juliet and Lima

53Order for a wedding reception

54One of the Twelve Olympians

56Pitching stat

57Comic book onomatopoeia

58Music genre prefix

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Stats & info

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.2

Avg entry length

14 ltrs

Longest entry

Medium

Wednesday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 15, 2026

DayWednesday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorAdam Wagner

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

29APut all the bold letters in this clue together?14 ltrs 43APut all the bold letters in this clue together?14 ltrs 17APut all the bold letters in this clue together?10 ltrs 57APut all the bold letters in this clue together?10 ltrs 11DClear cocktail often served with lime10 ltrs

Wednesday is the midweek pivot, where themes get denser and clues start bending the surface reading. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.2 letters per entry.