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NYT Crossword — March 6, 2026

Friday’s 15 × 15 puzzle, 68 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

1First impression of a new video game?

12After-afterthought, for short

15Drone's image

17"We should grab a meal sometime"

19A narwhal's "horn," technically speaking

20Many Snapchats, informally

21Unfolds, with "out"

23Author Roald Dahl, during World War II

24Command+F, on a Mac

25Veronica ___, author of the "Divergent" novels

26Reached the top of one's game

28Grain that once fed the Roman army

29Heroic tale of romance

30Seeing someone wealthier, say

32Worker involved in firings?

34Montenegrin, e.g.

35You can't cut through it

37Fictional subjects of 13 movies between 2000 and 2020

41The Green Hornet's sidekick

42"___ have guessed?!"

46Medgar ___, one inspiration for the 1964 protest anthem "Mississippi Goddam"

48Device such as a qamutiik, an Inuk means of Arctic transportation

50"Missile" in many a slapstick fight

51Eschewing modesty, say

54Home security inits. since 1874

55Summer confection

57Digital deals for young people?

Down

34 clues

1NH4NO3 and others

2Get set to drive

4Consideration in setting insurance rates

6Emits a stream of hot air

7Satellite transmission path

8Hit the ground loudly

9Hyperbolic amount of work

10Unscripted, for short?

11Neighborhood once home to N.Y.C.'s so-called "Gasoline Alley"

12The world's biggest one contains seven keyboards

13Publisher's order

14Pleasurable place to do business?

22Made the fool

24Grow progressively more rancid

26Lab access point?

28Made a scene, say

29Some yellowish canines

31Shelters some look to when duty calls?

32The good life, in Spanish vernacular

33Like some emotions and recruits

35One might frequently be buttered up

36Feature of Alfalfa's hair in "The Little Rascals"

40Annual award for short stories

43___ Buena (island in San Francisco Bay)

44Exiled character in "King Lear"

47Little mistake

48Longtime soccer manager ___-Göran Eriksson

49Cost in total, with "to"

52Pas ___ (somewhere else: Fr.)

53"It's the ___!"

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Stats & info

Friday, Mar 6, 2026

15×15

Grid size

68

Total entries

35/190

Black / letter cells

5.6

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Hard

Friday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMar 6, 2026

DayFriday

ThemeThemeless

ConstructorAdrian Johnson

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split34 across · 34 down

Longest entries

1AFirst impression of a new video game?11 ltrs 15ADrone's image11 ltrs 17A"We should grab a meal sometime"11 ltrs 51AEschewing modesty, say11 ltrs 55ASummer confection11 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 5.6 letters per entry.