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NYT Crossword — May 14, 2026

Thursday’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

1Cliff formed by a fault

6Avoided a tag, say

10Penultimate Greek letter

13"My fault entirely"

14Taste perception first identified in 1908

15Physics unit named for a physicist

16Feature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 1997

18Confucian "way"

19Prime breeding environment for mosquitoes

20Impression on some fancy sheets

22Puente of "The Mambo Kings"

23Traveled path

27Powerful fireboat gear

30Rationalist's theology

32Part of an analogy

33"___'s da breaks!"

37Flesh and blood

38Biblical locale guarded by a flaming sword

40Direction to bow, in music

41Squeezing (out)

43Gets bloated, say

45Pair for a pool

46Ruthless Athenian lawgiver

47Tidy up, in a way

48What collects in a puddle

49Things often getting free refills

54Simile segment

55Broadcasting giant with hundreds of stations

58Origin of the words "sky" and "scrape"

59Heather genus that's also a woman's name

61Former small-sized G.M. cars

62Compound with a caret-shaped molecule, as depicted by this puzzle's circled letters

Down

37 clues

1Anatomical containers

3Palindrome on an Italian restaurant menu

4September to April, in the oyster industry

5Alternatives to hourly wages

6Ecological concern

9Gossip about, informally

10A peeling that's appealing?

11Prolifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism

12Reassuring reply

14"That … ain't it"

21Certain tax-free bond, informally

23Velocity, e.g.

24Relatively unusual

25Had to have right away

26Races against the clock

27Travel by pick-up?

28"The Elder" or "The Younger" Roman

29Strains to hear?

31Hemlock relatives

35Hand, at a hacienda

36Group with a satellite truck

39Palindrome on an Indian restaurant menu

42Seven-stringed instrument that gave the guitar its name

44Ancient book of divination

45Member of a sluglike "Star Wars" species

47Presaging disaster

48Meaty pasta sauce

51Cut and paste, e.g.

52Force through a food mill

56Uprooting tool

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Stats & info

Thursday, May 14, 2026

15×15

Grid size

74

Total entries

34/191

Black / letter cells

5.2

Avg entry length

11 ltrs

Longest entry

Tricky

Thursday difficulty

PuzzleThe Crossword

PublishedMay 14, 2026

DayThursday

ThemeUntitled

ConstructorSimeon Seigel

EditorWill Shortz

Clue split37 across · 37 down

Longest entries

16AFeature that debuted on Page 1 of The New York Times in 199711 ltrs 55ABroadcasting giant with hundreds of stations11 ltrs 10DA peeling that's appealing?10 ltrs 11DProlifically posting about one's kids online, in a neologism10 ltrs 25DHad to have right away10 ltrs

Thursday is the gimmick day: rebus squares, reversed entries and other tricks are fair game. This grid has 34 black squares and averages 5.2 letters per entry.