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NYT Crossword — April 17, 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

37 clues

5Make an all-out effort

1050, on a table

13Sea creature known to mourn its dead

14Long-stemmed mushroom

16Medicare subsection covering ambulance services

18Get to the point?

19Half a chocolate bar

20Settle a bill

22Georgia hometown of R.E.M. and the B-52s

24Small pieces from

27Looks over briefly

30Word after back or snack

32Sticker that usually comes in sets of three or four?

33Did some knifework on

36Worst of all imaginable chronologies

39"What's the issue …?"

40Start to season, as a skillet

41"Storage Wars" network

48Set of notes in a seventh chord

49"Stop being such a baby!"

51Negative Nancy or Debbie Downer

55First Super Bowl won by the Kansas City Chiefs in 50 years

56Gal on the screen

58[You're boring me]

61Chewy Japanese noodle

62"___ supuesto!" ("Of course!," in Spanish)

63Look with a curled lip

Down

33 clues

2Modern home of ancient Mesopotamia

4Informational repository

5End of a gay pride slogan

6"Bad news aside ..."

8Maker of the iconic Billy bookcase

9What's going around?

10Gets the memo

112000 song for Aaron Carter about seeking someone "tough but sweet"

12Safety devices for trapeze artists

17"Mars, the ___ of War" (first movement of "The Planets")

21"You get the picture"

23Old-school dance

25Discussion guider

272008 Clint Eastwood film centered around an attempted car theft

28Act superior to

31Bend it like Beckham!

32BlackBerrys, e.g., for short

34Seriously, in modern slang

371/86,400 of a day: Abbr.

38Opium product used by Anna Karenina and Victor Frankenstein

47High honors in science fiction

50Sacrifice in some chess gambits

52Weird Al Yankovic parody of the Kinks's "Lola"

53Mythical lover

54Monthly expense

57Student center?

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Stats & info

Friday, Apr 17, 2026

15×15

Grid size

70

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

5.4

Avg entry length

15 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedApr 17, 2026

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorRachel Fabi

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 33 down

Longest entries

36AWorst of all imaginable chronologies15 ltrs 6D"Bad news aside ..."15 ltrs 5DEnd of a gay pride slogan11 ltrs 25DDiscussion guider11 ltrs 10DGets the memo10 ltrs

Friday puzzles run themeless, so the fill leans on long open entries and wordplay clues rather than a central gimmick. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 5.4 letters per entry.