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NYT Crossword — March 30, 2026

Monday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 78 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

1Print, Copy, ___, Fax (printer selections)

5Former Giants QB Manning

8Element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie

14Sparkling wine of Italy, familiarly

15Odd ___ out (misfit)

16"In spite of all that …"

17Endless TikTok scrolling or Tetris playing, e.g.

20Wastebasket, jokingly

22Only U.S. president from Delaware

25Grand production

26___ Plaines, Ill.

27Smelter's material

28Popular sushi fish

30Like the Mariana Trench among all the world's underwater places

33Guy who goes a-courting

35"You've ___ this!"

38Illegal distribution of narcotics

44Right-angled shape

45Corner piece on a chessboard

48Top placement in a bracket, for a March Madness team

51Caustic paint stripper

53Be in arrears

54Onetime AT&T competitor

59Where to pick up luggage at an airport

63Regrettably unfortunate

64Went into reverse ... or what the ends of 17-, 20-, 38- and 59-Across might be

68Word after Irish or jet

69Longtime record label or Beastie Boy

70Valentine's Day flower

72Glide down a slope

73___ of the Horse (2026 in the Chinese zodiac)

Down

41 clues

1Stayed on the bench

2Long-running CBS procedural with spinoffs

3Fixture at a "cash only" establishment

4Nephew's sister

5Dubai dignitary

6Round Table knight who betrayed King Arthur

7Cover with tattoos, colloquially

8Equip with new shoestrings

9State with certainty

10Like many users of sign language

11News exclusive from someone in the know

13California city with a humble-sounding name

18Basic trig ratio

22Go up and down in the water

23Livid feeling

24Major drags on a team's progress, metaphorically

29Item in an Easter hunt

34Internet addresses, for short

39Take advantage of

40Like the original Broadway cast of "The Wiz"

41Travel by air

42Kenya's second-largest city

43Boxes up securely

47F sharp major, for one

49Lawn-neatening tools

50Rap's Dr. ___

52Actor Estrada of "CHiPs"

56Warhead weapons, for short

58Manicurist's board

60Bit of boarding pass info

61Iowa college town

62"Superfood" berry

66Team for Olympians Simone Biles and Mikaela Shiffrin

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Stats & info

Monday, Mar 30, 2026

15×15

Grid size

78

Total entries

36/189

Black / letter cells

4.8

Avg entry length

12 ltrs

Longest entry

Easiest

Monday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMar 30, 2026

DayMonday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorGary Cee

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 41 down

Longest entries

20AWastebasket, jokingly12 ltrs 59AWhere to pick up luggage at an airport12 ltrs 38AIllegal distribution of narcotics11 ltrs 11DNews exclusive from someone in the know11 ltrs 24DMajor drags on a team's progress, metaphorically11 ltrs

Monday grids are the gentlest of the week: straightforward definitions, familiar fill and almost no wordplay. This grid has 36 black squares and averages 4.8 letters per entry.